Tim Laciano is a senior honors student at New Providence High School. He has studied piano for eleven years and oboe for nine years and is currently studying privately with Kenneth Hess and Nora Palmieri, respectively. He is also a pitched percussionist and a member of his school’s Concert Band, Jazz Band, and Symphony Orchestra. Also, he is a Drum Major of the regional championship Marching Band.

Tim is also the accompanist for the Women’s Choir and is assistant music director, rehearsal pianist, and assistant pit orchestra conductor of the spring musical theater productions. A vocalist as well, he is a member of the Men’s Choir and the Jazz Choir. As a cast member, he played Trevor Graydon in Thoroughly Modern Millie and Albert Peterson in Bye Bye Birdie.

Tim is also a composer. He won first prize for musical composition at the middle school level in the statewide Parent Teacher Association’s Reflections competition. The Harmonium Choral Society awarded him honorable mention in 2008, runner up in 2009, and the grand prize in 2010 in their annual choral composition competition for New Jersey high school students. The chorus performed two of his winning compositions in their spring concerts. One of these pieces, "Virtue," received honorable mention recognition in last year's ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Competition and was performed by the Gregg Smith Singers, an acclaimed professional ensemble, at their January 2010 concert in Manhattan. Tim co-wrote and conducted incidental music for his school’s 2008 fall play, It’s a Wonderful Life: A Radio Play and has arranged music for his school’s Marching Band. Recently, his high school choir commissioned him to compose a song to be premiered by them at Disney World this spring. Tim has studied composition with Lewis Nielson and Josh Levine at Oberlin Conservatory and Daniel Ott of the Juilliard School. He plans to study music composition and liberal arts at college next fall.

PAST RECIPIENTS

CHARLES HOENS, South Orange December 1971
PATRICIA A. DOBBS, Madison April 1972
NANCY SCHWARTZ, South Orange April 1973
LISA FLORIO, Short Hills December 1973
JULIE KEDERSHA, South Orange April 1974
ELIZABETH NESTER, Madison December 1974
DONNA ROBBINS South Orange April 1975
MARGO HENNEBACH, Short Hills December 1976
KYLE GRANGER, South Orange April 1976
KRISTI FRANK, Short Hills December 1976
LAURA ANN LlLOIA, Nutley April1977
LORI MILLER, Millburn December 1977
HANS FENSTERMACHER, South Orange
JANET HIRSHMAN, Maplewood, April 1978
MELINDA GETZ, Millburn December 1978
MARGERY HANSEN, West Orange April 1979
SHARON ELIZABETH BAUBLES, Maplewood April 1980
ROBIN LORI COHEN, Short Hills December 1980
PAMELA DeLUCA, Millburn : April 1981
SUSAN TULINSKI, Short Hills April 1982
DONNA TERRY, Newark
PAMELA WINSLOW, Maplewood, May 1983
KENNETH RICHMAN, Maplewood April 1984
LORRAINE THOMAS Maplewood May 1985
LOREN WALENSKY, Millburn May 1986
MATTHEW RINGEL, Millburn May 1987
AVI POLAK, Millburn April 1988
HEATHER MOUNT, Millburn April 1989
PETER STEWART, South Orange May 1990
KRISTEN CASTALDO, Florham Park May 1991
CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON, Warren Twp May 1992
MAKIKO HIRATA, Short Hills May 1993
CAROLYN SHIH, Short Hills May 1994
SONIA LYNN BJORNSEN, East Hanover May 1996
MARY KATE WILLKENS, Summit
KARINA BRUK, South Orange May 1996
EYTAN USLAN, South Orange May 1997
MICHAEL VOGEL, Berkeley Heights May 1998
JESSICA MOFFETT, West Orange May 1999
VERONICA LEE PASTERCZYK, Mountainside May 2000
ALLISON CHEUNG, Millburn and
ASHER STEIN, Maplewood May 2001
ASHLEY HARTMAN, Chatham May 2002
LEAR JANIV, Millburn May May2003
YEMIN SHI, Millburn May 2004
FREDDI MACK, Berkeley Heights May 2005
MARISSA RAGO, Union May 2006
HYEREE GRACE KIM, Millburn May 2007
ELICIA SILVERSTEIN, Millburn May 2008
LARISSA D’ANDREA, Montclair May 2009
AMANDA GRAFTON, Maplewood May 2010

AMANDA GRAFTON, Columbia High May 2010

THE JOHN A. PLUMER
MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP AWARD

The Music Scholarship Award was initiated in 1971 by John Plumer during his year as President. In his honor the Maplewood Glee Club established the John A. Plumer Memorial Scholarship Fund as a not-for-profit organization supporting young music students. A scholarship is awarded each year to a graduating senior high school student planning to pursue a career in music. Selection of the recipient is administered by our Scholarship Committee. Candidates are drawn from the towns where members of the glee club reside. Relatives of glee club members are ineligible.

Continuance of the award has been made possible by the support of the Glee Club’s members and friends. Tax deductible donations to the John A Plumer Memorial Scholarship Fund may be sent to:

Maplewood Glee Club
P.O. Box 54
Maplewood, NJ 07040