Tara Towson Villa — Awards

Winner of the Metrolina Theatre Association Award for Outstanding Musical Direction/Conducting for Davidson College's 2011 production of Into the Woods (Fall 2012)
Second place in the Camargo Guarnieri Conducting Competition - Campos do Jordão, Brazil (Summer 2009)
Winner of the Interaction Selection Contest - Berlin, Germany (Spring 2009)
Winner of the International Conducting Competition - Macon, GA (Winter 2008)
Women Conductors Grant recipient - League of American Orchestras (Spring 2008)
Winner of the Varna International Conducting Competition - Vidin, Bulgaria (Summer 2007)
Recipient of the LeDare Robinson Graduate Award for Excellence in Music - University of South Carolina (Spring 2006)
Grant recipient - Global Partners Project and Associated Colleges of the South (Spring 2005)
Member of the Pi Kappa Lambda National Music Honors Society - Penn State University (2001-2003)
Cum Laude with Honors in Music - Franklin & Marshall College (2000)