April 2021, Houston, TX—The Bay Area Chorus of Greater Houston (BAC) recently awarded Carlin Truong its second annual Jeanette Chase Scholarship for outstanding graduate students in the field of choral music and arts leadership. Truong is a graduate student pursuing a DMA in choral directing with a minor in arts leadership at the Moores School of Music, University of Houston. He has a BA in psychology with a minor in music from the University of California, San Diego, and an MA in choral conducting from San Jose State University, CA. Truong has directed high school and church choirs and cofounded and conducted a tenor/bass community chorus in California’s Central Valley area. In his scholarship application, Truong stressed his desire to train, nurture, and inspire future musicians and music educators.
The BAC established this scholarship in 2021 to honor the dedication and achievements of Jeanette Chase, who was a BAC member for 37 years and served as BAC president from 2012 to 2019. Applicants must be full-time graduate students pursuing a career in choral music or arts leadership, preferably with a choral interest, who have 9 or more hours of credit and a minimum GPA of 3.0. At present, applications are limited to students at the Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts at the University of Houston.
