{"id":279884,"date":"2026-09-05T20:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T20:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/279884\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T20:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T20:22:07","slug":"duryea-pianist-receives-founders-award-wilkes-barre-citizens-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/279884\/","title":{"rendered":"Duryea pianist receives Founders Award \u2013 Wilkes-Barre Citizens&#8217; Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kira McCoy, daughter of Brian and Jill McCoy of Duryea, recently participated in the Guild National Piano Playing Auditions and was awarded the Founders Award for playing 10 required pieces from memory and receiving a Superior Plus score.<\/p>\n<p>The National Guild of Piano Teachers is the Teacher Division of the American College of Musicians, headquartered in Austin, Texas. Kira is a member of the Student Division of the American College of Musicians.<\/p>\n<p>She is a student of Narda Sperrazza and has been taking piano lessons for the past seven years.<\/p>\n<p>She is a 9th-grade student at Holy Cross High School.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kira McCoy, daughter of Brian and Jill McCoy of Duryea, recently participated in the Guild National Piano Playing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[524,182,803,28,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-279884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-community","tag-local-news","tag-luzerne-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}