Philharmonic Society Gives $10,500 for Music Scholarships

The Orange County Philharmonic Society has given $10,500 to three local colleges for music scholarships. The colleges received $3,500 each and were allowed to allocate the money as they wished among entering students at the undergraduate or graduate level.

Recipients and schools were:

--Baritone Aram Barsamian of Pasadena, who received $2,000, and pianist Haw-jin Lee of Norwalk ($1,500) at Cal State Fullerton.

--Violinist Tony Knight of Las Vegas ($3,500) at Chapman College in Orange.

--Soprano Seung-Kyung Yang of Irvine ($1,750) and violinist Angel Liu of Santa Ana ($1,750) at UC Irvine.

The presentations mark the resumption of a scholarship program begun in 1967 as part of the Philharmonic Society’s educational outreach effort but suspended in 1984, pending the now-completed move of some youth programs to the Orange County Performing Arts Center in Costa Mesa, according to the society’s executive director, Erich Vollmer.