Freshman Emily Silber is Overture Awards Finalist

 Freshman Emily Silber has been selected as one of the four finalists in the dance category of the 2007 Overture Awards.  The daughter of Bruce and Beth Silber of Delhi Twp., Emily has been dancing since she was three years old, and has danced for eight years with the Starmaker Dance Studio Competition Team.  She also studied ballet for six years at the Otto M. Buddig Academy of the Cincinnati Ballet and has performed in the “Nutcracker”. Currently she trains at Planet Dance and is an apprentice member of “Exhale”, Cincinnati’s only professional contemporary dance company.  Emily has won numerous regional and national awards and scholarships and attends workshops around the country.

 The Overture Awards competition is the Tri-State’s largest solo arts competition for high school students and offers scholarships in six artistic disciplines: creative writing, dance, instrumental music, theater, visual art, and vocal music.  Students may win a $2,500 scholarship (one awarded in each discipline) or a $500 finalist scholarship (total 18 awarded).  Judges are drawn from the professional arts community.  The Overture Awards is a scholarship competition that recognizes, encourages and rewards excellence  in the arts among tri-state students in grades 9-12. Its mission is to encourage arts education as an integral part of a student’s academic experience and to create an environment that encourages training in and appreciation of the arts.     

St. Ursula Academy is a Catholic, college-preparatory, secondary school for young women.  In 2002 the academy was recognized by the U.S. Department of Education as a Blue Ribbon School. The campus, located at 1339 E. McMillan Street in East Walnut Hills has been the home of St. Ursula Academy and Convent since 1910.