In 2018, Lutheran Summer Music established the Carlos Messerli Service Award to recognize individuals who have displayed outstanding service to the mission of LSM. This year, LSM is proud to announce that Dr. Carl Schalk will be honored with the 2021 Carlos Messerli Service Award for his decades of leadership and service to LSM.

The Dr. Carl Schalk Lutheran Summer Music Scholarship Endowment Fund furthers LSM’s strategic goal of removing the financial barrier to attendance for all deserving students. This Scholarship Endowment Fund will honor Dr. Schalk’s legacy not only in name, but in the promise that the future of music and the Church which he has served so faithfully will be preserved through the training and nurturing of young people. Gifts made toward this new scholarship endowment will be generously matched 2:1 by two anonymous donors!

Lutheran Summer Music (LSM) is the nation’s premier faith-based music academy for high school students. In addition to advanced musical instruction and numerous performance opportunities, LSM students form an intentional community, living together for four weeks on a Lutheran college campus. Since 1981, this unique and immersive program has guided the lives of young musicians who credit LSM as the starting place for their future careers and vocations.

LSM was founded to celebrate and extend the rich musical heritage of the Lutheran church. Our founders believed that by providing high-quality training and performance opportunities to young musicians they could cultivate a lifelong love of classical and sacred music, thus preserving these art forms for generations to come.

Dr. Carl Schalk Scholarship Fund

In memory of Dr. Schalk's contributions to LSM

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