{"id":106895,"date":"2017-12-04T18:51:03","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T22:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=106895"},"modified":"2017-12-04T18:51:03","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T22:51:03","slug":"musicians-diego-urena-and-carlos-fabre-win-full-scholarships-to-berklee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2017\/12\/04\/musicians-diego-urena-and-carlos-fabre-win-full-scholarships-to-berklee\/","title":{"rendered":"Musicians Diego Ure\u00f1a and Carlos Fabr\u00e9 win full scholarships to Berklee"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_106833\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-106833\" style=\"width: 275px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-106833\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Michel-Camilo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-106833\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michel Camilo \/ Berklee College of Music<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Diego Ure\u00f1a Santana, a guitarist from the National District (Santo Domingo) won the prestigious Michel Camilo Presidential Scholarship to study at Berklee College of Music in Boston. Carlos Fabr\u00e9, an electric bass musician also from the National District won the Berklee College of Music full tuition scholarship for the four-year undergraduate program.<\/p>\n<p>The winners of the Michel Camilo Scholarship Competition were chosen on Saturday, 2 December 2017 at the National Conservatory of Music in Santo Domingo. The total awards were for US$1,152,000 in 13 awards. The announcement was made following a three-day clinic on performance, composition, and music technology for local students taught by Berklee faculty and guest artist Camilo.<\/p>\n<p>The Michel Camilo Scholarship is a full scholarship opportunity awarded to one gifted instrumental musician, either Dominican-born or of Dominican descent, who is accepted to Berklee for the upcoming year. The Michel Camilo Scholarship covers the cost of tuition, room, and board, and is renewable over four years of study. This scholarship is donated by Sandra and Michel Camilo, Trustee Emeritus Mike Dreese, and many friends of the Camilos. Berklee College of Music has presented its matching full scholarship recognizing the abundance of local music talent.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Ure\u00f1a and Fabr\u00e9, 11 other students received scholarships to Berklee College of Music, including seven partial tuition scholarships and four won scholarships for the five-week summer performance program.<br \/>\nThe winners of the partial tuition scholarships were:<br \/>\nThe winners of the partial tuition scholarships were:<br \/>\nSheldon Mart\u00ednez Sandoval from Puerto Plata (drums)<br \/>\nJuan Garcia Tuba fro the National District (tuba)<br \/>\nRony Khoury from the National District ()<br \/>\nDiego M\u00e9ndez from Santo Domingo West (guitar)<br \/>\nLoreng Salcedo de Castro from Santo Domingo (voice)<br \/>\nFrancis Pe\u00f1a Almonte from Santo Domingo West (drums)<br \/>\nGeann Mendez from the Santo Domingo Colonial City (cello)<\/p>\n<p>The four winners of the five-week summer performance program were funded by US$36,000 by an anonymous donor. These were:<br \/>\nJohn Martez Melenciano from San Crist\u00f3bal (trumpet)<br \/>\nMaria del Rosario Fern\u00e1ndez from La Vega (violin)<br \/>\nJacinto Lachapel Mercedes from Santo Domingo Norte (piano)<br \/>\nLaura Montero Mendez from the National District\/Santo Domingo (flute).<\/p>\n<p>4 December 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diego Ure\u00f1a Santana, a guitarist from the National District (Santo Domingo) won the prestigious Michel Camilo Presidential Scholarship to study at Berklee College of Music in Boston. Carlos Fabr\u00e9, an electric bass musician also from the National District won the Berklee College of Music full tuition scholarship for the four-year undergraduate program. The winners of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2017\/12\/04\/musicians-diego-urena-and-carlos-fabre-win-full-scholarships-to-berklee\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106895"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}