Tuesday Musicale of Greater Pontiac welcomes the public to a concert performed by the 2025 student award winners of the Rosamond Haeberle and Dora Dawson musical competitions, at 3 p.m. March 9, in the Sanctuary of the Central United Methodist Church, 3882 Highland Road, Waterford Twp. The concert will feature Trinity Fan, pianist and Brendan Callies, cellist.

A part of Musicale’s mission is to support student musicians in the world of music and aid monetarily to fund their musical education. This is a free admission concert and it promises to be an exceptional afternoon of outstanding music.

Sandra DeRemer announced the Rosamond Haeberle $4,000 piano award winner is Trinity Fan. Fan made her first Weil Recital-Carnegie Hall appearance at the age of 8 as a grand winner of the NLPA International Young Artists Competition, and has been a top prize winner of numerous competitions since then. In 2022 Trinity was a finalist in the Spotlight International Piano Competition where she also won the Audience Award. Previously, she studied with Edward Auer at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music as a Founders Scholar and was a recipient of the Music Faculty Award as well as a great many scholarships. Aside from performing, she has a love for teaching. At the University of Michigan, she studies with Christopher Harding and jazz piano with Andy Mine. She is currently a Graduate Student Instructor at U of M’s School of Music, Theatre and Dance and teaches at the SMTD Piano Pedagogy Laboratory Program. As a composer, Trinity was awarded Second Prize in the 2024 MTNA National Composition Competition for her piece “Reminiscence.” Fan plans to use her $4,000 award to complete her education at the University of Michigan and anticipates graduating with the degree: Master of Music Piano Performance and Pedagogy.

Mary Ann LaMonte will introduce Brendan Callies, winner of the $4,000 Dora Dawson award. Callies is a cellist currently pursuing a Bachelor of Music degree at Wayne State University. He has been a featured soloist in the Wayne State University Orchestra and is a regular member of the International Symphony in Sarnia, Canada. Callies is a substitute musician for the New World Symphony in Florida as well as the Lansing and Dearborn Symphonies in Michigan. He has performed in Detroit with pop and jazz musicians such as the prominent bandleader and saxophonist De’Sean Jones, who leads a pop/jazz/techno/rock fusion group called the Urban Art Orchestra. Callies has also premiered new works by eminent composers such as Errollyn Wallen. Callies first began taking lessons seven years ago while in eighth grade and now at Wayne State, he studies with Una O’Riodan. After graduation he plans to continue his education by applying for graduate school. When informed that he had won the Tuesday Musicale Dora Dawson award, he immediately began searching for a new bow to purchase with his winnings.

Following the concert there will be refreshments available. Tuesday Musicale of Greater Pontiac is affiliated with the National and Michigan Federation of Music Clubs. Find information about Tuesday Musicale on Facebook or visit https://tuesdaymusicaleofgreaterpontiac.org or contact Mary Ann LaMonte (248) 673-8187.