2025 Zamora Event

2025 Zamora Scholarship Competition, featuring Bach Artist Mark Buselli

2025 Zamora Scholarship Winners (left to right): 3rd Place, Austin Boes, guitar – Lafayette Jefferson High School. 2nd Place: Jackson Bohall, tenor saxophone – Twin Lakes High School. Winner: Corbin Stanchfield, upright bass – Lafayette Jefferson High School, Bach Artist and Clinician Mark Buselli

On April 6, 2025, Jazz Club of Lafayette friends and family members gathered at the Tippecanoe Arts Federation’s main hall to hear area high school musicians participate in the 11th Annual Tony Zamora Scholarship competition. Bach Artist and Clinician Mark Buselli was our special guest, leading a clinic before the competition, supported by a House Band comprised of students in Purdue University Jazz Programs, including Austin Choi (piano), Dan Gui (trumpet), Grace O’Neil (bass), and Jon Nelson (drums). The Jazz Club of Lafayette’s Brent Laidler, organizer of the annual Zamora Scholarship and related fundraising and event promotion, was the host. Judges for the 2025 competition were Mark Buselli, Jarrard Harris, and Bruce Knepper. Also in attendance was Betty Zamora, who participated in presenting the 2025 Zamora Scholarship awards to the top three scorers.

2025 Tony Zamora Scholarship Winner, 2nd and 3rd Place
  • 1st, Corbin Stanchfield, bass – Lafayette Jefferson High School
  • 2nd, Jackson Bohall, tenor sax – Twin Lakes High School
  • 3rd, Austin Boes, guitar – Lafayette Jefferson High School
2025 Tony Zamora Scholarship Additional Participants
  • Jose Viveros, alto sax – Lafayette Jefferson High School
  • Dace Rusco – trombone – Lafayette Jefferson High School
  • Cashen Holmes, guitar – McCutcheon High School
  • Clay Meister, alto sax – Harrison High School
Tony Zamora Scholarship Winners 2016-2025
  • 2025 Corbin Stanchfield – bass (Lafayette Jefferson High School)
  • 2024 Hayden Boyer – tenor saxophone (Harrison High School)
  • 2023 Calvin Freed – tenor saxophone (Harrison High School)
  • 2022 Griffin McAtee – alto saxophone (Twin Lakes High School)
  • 2021 Griffin McAtee – alto saxophone (Twin Lakes High School)
  • 2020 Sam McClurg – drums (West Lafayette High School)
  • 2019 Rudy Ahlersmeyer – piano (Lafayette Jefferson High School)
  • 2018 Anthony Hegarty – bass (Lafayette Jefferson High School)
  • 2017 Sam Craig – bass (West Lafayette High School)
  • 2016 Christopher Cooper – alto – (West Lafayette High School)

About the Tony Zamora Scholarship

Each year, The Jazz Club of Lafayette, Indiana awards annual cash scholarships in the name of mentor, educator and Jazz saxophone master Antonio “Tony” Zamora (1930-2020). During his adult life, Tony Zamora dedicated his energies to building community relationships and opportunities for black students at the University of Illinois (1970-1971) and Purdue University (1973-1995), and to making Jazz education and performance accessible to students and the general public. Established in 2015, the Zamora Scholarship is awarded through a Jazz performance competition among high school-age entrants in the Greater Lafayette area. Performances are judged by an annually-rotating scholarship committee, which includes area Jazz musicians and educators. You can learn more about the life and legacy of Antonio “Tony” Zamora here, and those who are interested in the annual Zamora Scholarship can reach out to our executive committee through this email: director@thejazzclub.org.