Sofia Monguilod

• - Levine Scholarship Finalist, UNC Charlotte, top 3% of candidates promoted to the finalist stage for the 4-year all-inclusive university scholarship (2024)
• - Awarded 2nd place in NATS State-level Competition, Musical Theatre (11th-12th graders) and Contemporary Commercial Music, November 2023
• - Awarded 1st place, NATS Mid-Atlantic Regional Competition: Contemporary Commercial Music (11th-12th grades), March 2023
• - Awarded 1st place, NATS Mid-Atlantic Regional Competition: Musical Theatre (11th-12th grades), March 2023
• -Vice President, Weaver Chorale 2023-24
• - Semifinalist Butler University Vocal Competition 2023, 22 vocalists from all over the US and Hong Kong selected, February 2023
• - NC Governor's School 2023 in Choral Music, chosen from over 1,700 applicants on the state-level round to attend this summer intensive for advanced and gifted NC students
• - Awarded 1st place, NATS State-level Competition: Contemporary Commercial Music (11th-12th grades), November 2022:
• - Awarded 3rd place, NATS Mid-Atlantic Regional Competition: Musical Theatre Trebel Voice (9th-10th grades), April 2022
• - Awarded top placement, NATS State-level Competition: Musical Theatre Trebel Voice (11th-12th grades), February 2022
• - Awarded top placement, NATS State-level Competition: Classical Trebel Voice (9th-10th grades), February 2022
• -Soloist: Weaver Academy Chorale 2023 Fall Performance, Sull'onda cheta e bruna by Donizetti
• -Soloist: Weaver Academy Chorale 2023 Final Performance, Underground by Cody Fry
• - Soloist: Weaver Academy Chorale 2023 Spring Performance, Let It Be Forgotten by George Crumb
• - Soloist: Weaver Academy Chorale 2022 Fall Performance, The World Feels Dusty by Aaron Coplan
• - Soloist: Weaver Academy Chorale 2022 Year-End Performance, Dream a Little Dream of Me by
• Dorris Day
• - Soloist: Weaver Academy Chorale 2022 Spring Performance, Nina by Pergolesi
• - Soloist: Weaver Academy Chorale 2021 Fall Performance, Nymphs and Shepards by Henry Purcell
• - National Honors Society, induction 2022
• - National Society of High School Scholars, induction 2022
• - North Carolina Ambassador, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF)
• - Guilford County Ambassador, North Carolina for Community and Justice (NCCJ)
• -Docent Educator, Greensboro Science Center (GSC)

Sofia is a creative, motivated, goal-oriented student who demonstrates strong academic achievement and dedication to voice performance, leadership, and service. Sofia attended the prestigious North Carolina Governor's School for choral music in the summer of 2023. She is currently a senior vocal major at Weaver Academy for Visual and Performing Arts, a top-rated arts magnet in downtown Greensboro. Rated sixth in the state for academics, all classes at Weaver are Honors or AP level. Sofia holds a 4.3 GPA and enjoys dual enrollment courses at the local technical college. National Honors Society membership provides her with a platform for school involvement and volunteer service at school. Vocalists at Weaver Academy train together for 7.5 hours per week in class and also take private voice lessons. All vocal majors complete 12 -13 courses in voice and supporting music classes. The Weaver Chorale regularly wins top placement at national competitions in Orlando, Nashville, and New York and has performed at Carnegie Hall and the Vatican. Graduates of the Weaver Chorale have been finalists on America's Got Talent, and become Broadway performers and recording artists.

Sofia owes much of her development to her exceptional vocal instructor Jaclyn Surso. Surso has been her private voice teacher for six years and guided her in every aspect of voice performance. Ken Davis has been a huge support and inspiration to Sofie as well in piano, recording, and music theory. Sofia enjoys weekly sessions with both of these outstanding instructors.

On a personal note, Sofia's Hispanic background has influenced her journey greatly. Her father immigrated to the US in 1991. She has been raised in a bicultural (Spanish-American) and bilingual household where multiculturalism and diversity are the fabric of life. Sofia is dedicated to inclusion and diversity training and leadership. She serves as an ambassador for North Carolina for Community and Justice (NCCJ) having spent a week in the summer of 2022 in their diversity leadership training at Anytown. She dedicates time to her community as a Greensboro Science Center Docent educating the public about the animals and wildlife at the zoo and aquarium on site. As someone living with type 1 diabetes, Sofia serves as a state-level ambassador for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) and is involved in the Diabetes Family Connection's summer camps called Camp Morris. Sofia is a big sister and future camp counselor to younger girls with T1D. Camp Morris' famous "Positive Mental Attitude" (PMA!) is something that she has internalized and now teaches to newly diagnosed youth.