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The NBSO is pleased to announce Orlando Montalvo Avalo (at left) and Thatcher Harrison (right) as our 2018 Lillian B. Lamoureux Scholarship recipients. NBSO President & CEO David Prentiss presented both young men with $1,000 scholarship checks (while our office mascot Franz Liszt looked on approvingly!)

Thatcher plays classical and jazz guitar as well as piano and plans to use his scholarship award to offset costs of his upcoming music college applications including expenses for on-campus auditions.

The New Bedford Symphony Orchestra is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2018 Lillian B. Lamoureux Scholarships. 

This year’s $1,000 junior scholarship winner is classical guitarist Thatcher Harrison of Dartmouth who plans to use his scholarship award to offset costs of applying to college music programs, including live on-campus auditions, where he intends to major in classical guitar performance and composition.

New Bedford Symphony Orchestra has picked the recipients of the 2018 Lillian B. Lamoureux Scholarships.

This year’s $1,000 junior scholarship winner is classical guitarist Thatcher Harrison of Dartmouth who plans to use his scholarship to offset costs of applying to college music programs, including live on-campus auditions. He intends to major in classical guitar performance and composition.

Thatcher Harrison remembers picking up a guitar and mimicking musicians he saw on TV when he was just three years old. That experience has influenced major life decisions for the now 15 year old, who will star in his own solo concert on February 11.

Harrison will only get two hours of stage time during the Paskamansett Concert Series at the Dartmouth Grange, and his goal is to cram as much variety as possible into his set. He started preparing a set list a several weeks ago, but it won’t be finalized until the day of the concert.

We first met Thatcher Harrison at the 2016 Art’s and Cultural Alliance of Newport County Annual Meeting earlier this year. The 14-year-old was among the entertainment for the evening at the Newport Art Museum, his performance left us a bit speechless.

Thatcher is returning to Newport very soon to participate in Newport BridgeFest, we caught up with him before his performance on Bowen’s Wharf…