Two SCPA students selected by National YoungArts Foundation

Senior Jullanar Gamboa from the San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts (SCPA) is a 2013 National YoungArts Foundation honorable mention winner in voice. Cleo Person, an early graduate of SCPA who is now attending The Juilliard School, was a 2013 finalist in dance. Jullanar and Cleo were chosen from approximately 10,000 applications from students in nine disciplines in the visual, literary, and performing arts.

To date, YoungArts has honored more than 16,000 young artists with over $6 million in monetary awards; facilitated in excess of $100 million in college scholarship opportunities; and enabled its participants to work with master teachers who are among the most distinguished artists in the word, such as Mikhail Baryshnikov, Placido Domingo, Quincy Jones, and Martin Scorsese. For more information about YoungArts and for a complete list of 2013 YoungArts winners, visit www.youngarts.org.

SCPA is a college-preparatory, arts-focused, magnet public school within the San Diego Unified School District for students in grades 6 through 12 who have a strong interest, passion, and talent in the arts. SCPA alumni are an extensive and impressive group who have attended UCLA, Juilliard, Otis School of Design, New York University Tisch School of the Arts, Boston University, the New England Conservatory, and numerous other prestigious universities, colleges, and conservatories throughout the United States. SCPA counts 5 Tony Award-winners among its alumni along with countless others who are working professionally in the artistic arena. For more information about SCPA and auditions in into the high school program, please visit www.sandi.net/scpa.



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