Espressivo Singers Auditions and Scholarship

Audition Requirements

Are you devoted to passionately expressing the choral art and sharing it with the community?

Espressivo is a group of professionally trained singers that desire to provide the community with artistically excellent choral performances. We rehearse on Mondays from 6:30 - 8:30 pm at Lake Worth High School.

Please email us at Espressivosingers@gmail.com to schedule your audition date.

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Be prepared to sing a solo piece of your choosing (please bring your own accompanist if needed)

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Basic sightsinging exercise. Due to limited rehearsal times, we require sight reading skills of all Espressivo members.

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Although we are seeking all voice parts for the upcoming season, we will have more availability for the traditional male voice parts.

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2026 Vocal Scholarship Competition

Application Deadline: February 13, 2026, 11:59 pm.

Winner will receive a $1,000.00 scholarship. 2nd place will receive a $500.00 scholarship.

The purpose of this scholarship is to encourage exceptional vocalists to pursue their education in the vocal arts. The student must qualify with regards to the criteria listed below:

Open to students who in the 2025-2026 year are between12th grade and a college junior
Voice must be principal instrument
Must exhibit excellence in music ability
Must be a resident of Palm Beach County or studying with a Palm Beach County National Association of Teachers of Singing instructor
High school students must declare music as their college major, and college students must have music as their official major

Applicants will be evaluated in the following areas:

Tone Quality and Production
Preparation
Musical Effect

Application Process:

Complete the Application Form
A recommendation letter from your director, vocal coach, or voice teacher, in PDF format, must be uploaded with your application. (750 word maximum)
In your application, you will provide a recording of yourself performing 2 selections
- Music must be art song, hymn, folk song, or aria
- At least one selection must be in a language other than English
- All music must be memorized
- Accompaniment may be live or pre-recorded

Scholarship Recipients

2025 Recipients:

First Place: Milena Denic

Spanish River High School, Alex Kovalsky, Director

Second Place: Eivissa Tinney

Boca Raton High School, Kaitlyn Wallace, Director

Third Place: Mary Page-Hoffmann

Boca Raton High School, Kaitlyn Wallace, Director

2024 Recipients:

First Place: Lindsay Reese

William T. Dwyer High School, Pamela T. Varnadore, Director

Second Place: Jonah DeVinney

Boca Raton High School, Kaitlyn Wallace, Director

Third Place: Jeric Lubag

Spanish River High School, Alex Kovalsky, Director

2023 Recipients:

First Place: Kayla Nguyen

West Boca Raton Community High School, Catherine Briggs, Director

Second Place: Aurea Perez

Palm Beach State College, Allen Webber, Director

2022 Recipients:

First Place: Symone Jordan Pierce

Florida Atlantic University

Second Place: Jaylin Bullard

Florida Atlantic University

2019 Recipients:

First Place: Veronica Washington

Vocal Music Major from Palm Beach Atlantic University

Second Place: Abby Guido

Park Vista High School, Bryan Ijames, Director

2018 Recipient:

Danielle Parks

Seminole Ridge High School, Wes Rainer and Cheryl Lafond, Directors

2017 Recipient:

Kim Perkins
Lake Worth High School, John Weatherspoon, Director

2016 Recipient:

Ariel Olander

Royal Palm Beach High School, David Sommer, Director

2015 Recipient:

Sarah Faulhaber

Florida Atlantic University, Stacie Rossow, Voice Teacher