School Year 2009-2010
Crystal Vanrell
-First Place - District Senior Vocal Competition (Birmingham) 2010 - will go on to Nationals
-First Place - Classical Singer High School Competition at the University of Alabama (2010) - will go on to Nationals
-NFAA YoungArts Finalist (2010)
-First Place - Alabama MTNA Senior Voice (2009)
-First Place - Alabama NATS Advanced High School Girls (2009)
-First Place - Alabama Federation of Music Clubs Junior Auditions (2009)
National Music Certificate Exams - Winter Test Session 2009
1st Class Honors and their teachers
Voice 2 - Miranda Shapiro (Dixie Harrison, teacher)
Voice 3 - Hannah Oswalt (Dixie Harrison, teacher) and *Morgan Bush (Deb Saylor, teacher)
Voice 5 - Jordan Flynn (Dr. Beazley, teacher) and Mollie Love (Dr. Beazley, teacher)
Voice 8 - Brandon Shapiro (Dr. Beazley, teacher)
Piano 3 - **Miranda Shapiro (Robert Lubin, teacher)
Piano 4 - Matthew Shapiro (Robert Lubin, teacher)
* Highest voice score for Ars Nova Student
** Highest piano score and highest overall score for Ars Nova students
UAHuntsville's High School Honor Choir (November 2009)
Alabama Vocal Association Solo Competition (November 2009)
Superior Ratings - Lauren Carlton, Catherine Hoop, Mollie Love, Matthew Shapiro, Brandon Shapiro, Ruth Smith, and Rebecca Vander Veer
School Year 2008-2009
Emily Stewart
- Scholarship to Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in vocal performance
- Won Huntsville Music Study Club scholarship 2009
- Won outstanding choral student of Alabama
Cooper Schrimsher
- Birmingham-Southern College Music Foundations Scholarship full tuition award for music composition
- Won Alabama Vocal Association’s District V Music Education Scholarship 2009
- 2007- won first place in the Senior Category Division of the Music Teacher’s National Association for his composition, “Come to the Lord.”
Kareem Elsamadicy
- Scholarship to Vanderbilt University Blair School of Music in vocal performance
- Winner of 2009 Montgomery Symphony scholarship to Tanglewood Summer High School Program
- Scholarship to Vann Vocal Institute in Montgomery
- First place - Alabama NATS Beginning High School Boys
- 2009 Kenneth Turvey Scholarship from the Huntsville Community Chorus
- First place winner - Regional Classical Singer High School Vocal Competition and is eligible for the national second round competition in Chicago
- Won outstanding choral student of Alabama 2009
Crystal Vanrell
- First Place - Alabama NATS Advanced High School Girls
- 2nd Place - Regional Classical Singer High School Vocal Competition and is eligible for the national second round competition in Chicago
- First Place - State Federated Music Clubs Junior Competition
Brandon Shapiro
- Scholarship to Washington National Opera High School Summer Program
Ars Nova is made possible in part through generous grants from the Alabama State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts 
