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

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Over $1M in voice scholarship accepted by Lawlor studio high school seniors.
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Accepted into local & national music programs:

- Juilliard School of Music (B.M. program, as well as a studio grad accepted for M.M. in Opera)
- Manhattan School of Music
- University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music (CCM)
- University of Michigan
- Oberlin Conservatory (B.M. program, as well as a studio grad accepted for M.M. in Choral Conducting)
- 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
​- Wichita State University
- 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
- Colorado Vocal 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...
- Houston Grand Opera Young Artist Vocal Academy
​- 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
​- Ad Astra Music Festival Young Artist 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
- In the backup monk choir for Madonna's surprise 2018 Met Gala performance (true story ha!)

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