WHEELING — The Thursday Music Club of Wheeling will sponsor the annual Young Musicians Auditions at Vance Memorial Church in Wheeling on March 15-16.

Sixty-six students will present memorized solo selections in piano and voice. This year’s judges will be John Allen Rose, piano, and David Scherrick, voice.

Rose, an international prize-winning pianist-composer, has twice performed his own piano music at Carnegie Hall in New York City. His compositions, including solo works, opera, piano concerto, violin concerto, cello concerto, etc., have been performed in North America, Europe and Asia. He has appeared on radio and TV commenting and playing his own music and has recorded his works on various labels. At the age of 18 he played the complete Chopin Etudes in concerts throughout Ohio and West Virginia. His studies took him to Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory and Cleveland, where he worked with Robert Mayerovitch and Professor Dina Khudaiberdieva, then later at Indiana University where he was a student of Karen Shaw. Subsequently he studied under pianist Frederic Chiu and conductor/composer Robert Ian Winstin. Rose is presently principal at St. John Central Academy in Bellaire.

Scherrick is director of choirs at John Marshall High School where he teaches choir, guitar and piano. This is Scherrick’s 20th year with Marshall County Schools. He has taught elementary general music, chorus, middle school choir and general music, and is currently at the high school level. He is also the organist at St. Mary Catholic Church, Martins Ferry, and director of music/organist at Grace Lutheran Church, Bethlehem. He is a member of the Ohio Valley Chorale.

Anita L. Chops, chair of the auditions, is pleased to announce the upcoming Honors Recital to be held at Vance Church at 2 p.m. March 24. The public is invited to attend and recognize the achievements of area music students. Students who receive a rating of “Superior” or “Superior with Honors” will be invited to participate in the recital.