The winners of the 2011 Conrad Seamen and Homer Wickline grants are:

Eric Juneras, countertenor, who will attend the American Bach Soloists Summer Academy in San Francisco
Elizabeth Stern, flute, who will record and produce a demo CD.
Leah Kaye Serr, mezzo soprano, who will be an Apprentice Artist with the Des Moines Metro Opera Company
Joseph Gaines, tenor, who will travel to Germany seeking "Fest" engagements.

The recipients of the 2010 PCS Wickline Seamen grants are:

Carlos A. Feliciano who is planning the Huellas Latinas Recital Series in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Huellas Latinas will be a recital series that promotes Spanish and Latin-American art song repertoire.

Emily Jaworski,of Concord, New Hampshire, to help in the production of Don Giovanni, the first opera of her newly established New Hampshire Opera Theater.

The 2009 PCS Wickline Seamen Grant was awarded to:
Rebekah Alexander, soprano, of Brookline, MA, to help her attend the Vancouver International Song Institute where she will work on perfecting her French and English song repertoire.

PCS is pleased to announce that Christin-Marie Hill is the recipient of the 2008 Homer Wickline and Conrad Seamen Grant. Ms Hill is a dramatic mezzo-soprano who lives in White Bear Lake, Minnesota. She is finishing a residency at the Minnesota Opera and intends to use the Wickline-Seamen grant to cover expenses she will incur at the Tanglewood Festival to which she is invited for the third time by Maestro Levine.

Ms Hill was the unanimous choice of a five member committee, all of whom members of the PCS board of directors.

Thanks to all those who applied and congratulations to Ms Hill.

The recipient of the 2007 PCS Wickline Seamen Grant is flutist Andrei Pidkivka who will participate in the National Flute Convention in Albuquerque, New Mexico, August 9-12, 2007

The Pittsburgh Concert Society is pleased to announce that Matthew Murchison is the recipient of this year's Wickline Seaman Grant. He will be attending the International Tuba/Euphonium Conference in Denver, Colorado during the week of June 26 where he is invited to perform as a soloist as well as with the group that he founded, Mainspring.

Alexander George who will be a member of the National Repertory Orchestra in Breckenridge, Colorado

Jeffrey Grossman who is organizing the Cambridge Early Music Project

Mike Purdue who is invited to perform his own composition at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention in Columbus, Ohio

Jorge Variego who is invited to the Orquestra Sinfonica de Salta (Argentina) to perform as a clarinet soloist and to record a clarinet concerto.