{"id":21134,"date":"2026-02-17T01:43:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T06:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/?p=21134"},"modified":"2026-02-17T14:21:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T19:21:53","slug":"elizabethtown-college-music-education-major-designated-as-presser-scholar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2026\/02\/17\/elizabethtown-college-music-education-major-designated-as-presser-scholar\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabethtown College Music Education Major Designated as Presser Scholar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elizabethtown College Music Education major Zachary Deah \u201926 was recently selected as a recipient of the Presser Foundation\u2019s 2025-26 Undergraduate Scholar Award<\/a>. This prestigious award is presented in recognition of Deah\u2019s dedication to academic and musical excellence, leadership, and commitment to fostering inclusivity.<\/p>\n

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Deah conducts Etown’s 2025 Winter Choral Concert<\/p><\/div>\n

A percussionist, Deah is commended by Etown ensemble directors for his leadership abilities. In both his academic and musical pursuits, he advocates for accessibility and inclusion.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Etown Music Department has become a second home to me thanks to the incredible community of students and professors,\u201d Deah said. \u201cBeing nominated as Etown’s Presser Scholar by the Music faculty is a huge honor, and one I intend to answer with more service and care for a community that has cared for me so much.”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Deah is among a cohort of 265 collegiate musicians nationwide who have received the award.<\/p>\n

About The Presser Foundation<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Presser Foundation was established in 1939 under the will of the late Theodore Presser. It is one of the few private foundations in the United States dedicated solely to music education and music philanthropy. To honor Presser\u2019s commitment to music education, undergraduate music programs at selected colleges, universities, and independent institutions of higher education are given the opportunity to present the Presser Undergraduate Scholar Award, which recognizes the accomplishments and contributions of a music major in their final year of undergraduate study. Learn more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elizabethtown College Music Education major Zachary Deah \u201926 was recently selected as a recipient of the Presser Foundation\u2019s 2025-26 Undergraduate Scholar Award. This prestigious award is presented in recognition of Deah\u2019s dedication to academic and musical excellence, leadership, and commitment to fostering inclusivity. A percussionist, Deah is commended by Etown ensemble directors for his leadership […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":21146,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1338,775],"tags":[197,1350,1433,2613],"class_list":["post-21134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics-and-research","category-campus","tag-elizabethtown-college","tag-etown","tag-etown-music","tag-presser-scholar","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21134"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21143,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21134\/revisions\/21143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}