Lawlor students consistently achieve and go on to achieve
exciting things in the local and national performing arts scene!

Accepted into local & national music programs:

- Juilliard School of Music
- Manhattan School of Music
- University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music (CCM)
- University of Michigan
- Oberlin Conservatory
- Northwestern Bienen School of Music
- New England Conservatory
- University of North Texas
- Boston Conservatory
- Berklee College of Music
- DePaul University School of Music
- Boston University College of Fine Arts
- University of Colorado Boulder
​- NYU Steinhardt
- USC Thornton School of Music
​- University of Arizona
- Miami University Ohio
​​- University of Northern Iowa
- UMKC Conservatory
- KU School of Music
- MU School of Music
- Pepperdine University
- Drake University
- University of Oklahoma
- Missouri State University
- William Jewell College
​- Truman State University
- Creighton University
- Kansas State University
​- Drury University
​- Tulane University
- University of Tulsa
- NW Missouri State
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 High school-specific competitive accomplishments:

- National YoungArts finalist for classical voice (only 8 high school classical singers in the entire country are chosen for this extremely competitive honor)
- National YoungArts merit winner for classical voice (this placed student among the top 36 high school classical singers in the nation)
- Semi-finalist in the Hal Leonard Online Vocal Competition (this placed student among the top 50 high school classical singers in the nation)
- Finalist for Midwest Chamber Ensemble's Young Artist Concerto Competition (vocalist AND instrumentalists contest!)
- First place winners for classical voice: Johnson County Arts Council Shooting Stars Awards (two years in a row at one point!)
- First place winners for classical voice and musical theater: Lenexa Arts Council performing arts scholarship (two years in a row at one point!)
- First place winner of voice division: Topeka Symphony Orchestra's high school concerto competition
- Selected as a featured soloist at Tanglewood's high school choral concert
- Classical Singer Competition, qualified for second round
- NAfME All-National Honor Choir
- Division first-place winners at KC NATS Student Auditions
- Multiple students selected as a featured soloist in the All-State choirs of both Missouri and Kansas
- Nominations and wins in various categories of KC Starlight Theater's Blue Star Awards for local high school musical theater performances
- KC Superstar Top 10 Finalist
- Recognized vocal soloist at the Kansas City Jazz Summit
- First place "Olathe's Got Talent" scholarship recipient
- "Best Actor" award at MSHSAA Theater All-State Championship
- Consistently achieve top ratings at District & State Solo contest
- Consistently selected for All-District & All-State Choirs in Missouri & Kansas
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Graduates' awards, post-high school:
- Anderson Undergraduate Voice Competition winner (University of Colorado Boulder)
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​Accepted into local & national training/summer programs:

- Performed an opera role in the college-level European training program Oberlin in Italy - as a senior in high school!
- Boston University Tanglewood Institute
- Washington National Opera's Institute for Young Singers
- Interlochen Summer Arts Camp
- Westminster Choir College's Solo Vocal Artist Summer Program
- Boston Conservatory's Vocal/Choral Intensive
- University of Michigan's MPulse Vocal Arts Institute
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City's Ginger Frost High School Honors Artists program
- Missouri Fine Arts Academy
- GRAMMY Museum Music Revolution Project
- K-State Summer Choral Institute
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City's summer opera camp

And post-high school...
​- Seagle Music Colony
​- CCM Opera Bootcamp
- Classical Singing & New York in June​
- Miami Music Festival Opera Institutes
- Hawaii Performing Arts Festival summer vocal program
- Chautauqua Institution Voice Program
- Bronx Opera
- University of Michigan's Choral Conducting Symposium
- Vienna Summer Music Festival
- Classic Lyric Art's La Lingua Della Lirica
​- DePaul University's Musica nella Marche
- Pepperdine University's Heidelberg Summer Music Program
- International Masters' Academy of Opera
​- Mountain Opera at the Manchester Music Festival
- Opera Workshop in the Flint Hills

Choral performances at prestigious venues:

- Symphony Chorus with the New York Philharmonic under Alan Gilbert
- Kauffman Performing Arts Center's Helzberg Hall (with the Kansas City Symphony under Michael Stern)
​- EnsembleNYC
- Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center
- Carnegie Hall
- Numerous venues throughout Europe

Find recordings of some Lawlor students by browsing the Student Performances playlist at the Joshua Lawlor Music channel on YouTube.