The Glenn Korff School of Music announced the recipients of two distinguished awards this spring.
India Enter has been named the winner of the Presser Scholarship given by the Presser Foundation. The scholarship is the most prestigious award given to an undergraduate student in the Glenn Korff School of Music.
Each year, the Presser Foundation makes a grant to Nebraska to be given to an outstanding music major at or after the end of their junior year. This student, selected by a vote of the Glenn Korff School of Music faculty, is designated as our “Presser Scholar.” This national honor, which includes a cash award, is intended to recognize outstanding and meritorious achievement in music.
Enter was raised in Owatonna, Minnesota, where she began playing the cello at the age of nine. Since beginning the cello, India has been involved in orchestral and cello studies outside of school and private lessons. She has participated in local Symphonies and String Orchestras, a couple including Minnesota Youth Symphonies and Canon Valley Youth Orchestra.
Last summer, she attended the Cincinnati Young Artists’ Summer Cello Academy and Miami Classical Music Festival online. In 2020, she performed as a soloist with the UNL Symphony as the winner of the 2020 Solo Undergraduate Concerto Competition.
For more on Enter, visit https://go.unl.edu/90zi.
The Glenn Korff Distinguished Undergraduate and Graduate Artist/Scholar Awards were presented to Sean Lebita (undergrad) and Florencia Zuloaga (graduate).
These awards recognize and reward excellence in performance and/or scholarship in the Glenn Korff School of Music.
Lebita is a junior piano performance major, studying with Marguerite Scribante Professor of Piano Paul Barnes. He started playing piano in 2007. He won the Nebraska MTNA Young Artist competition for piano in 2018. He is also the pianist for the UNL Jazz Orchestra.
A native of Argentina, Zuloaga is a versatile pianist who thrives at the intersections of classical, Latin American and jazz genres. She is pursuing a doctorate in piano performance and is also studying with Barnes. She completed her M.M. at the University of Arkansas.
For more information on the Korff Scholars, visit https://go.unl.edu/mvb3.