FARMINGTON – Emma and Ben Lively have announced that Malina Dumas is the fourth recipient of the Lively Arts Award, an annual $250 cash gift to a graduating Mt. Blue High School senior, recognizing enthusiasm, discipline and promise in music.

Dumas, a violinist, has performed as a member of All-State, the Mid Maine Youth Orchestra, Syncopations, the UMF Community Orchestra and the Mt. Blue High School orchestra and chorus.

An accomplished chamber musician, she has performed in master classes with the Triple Helix Piano Trio of Boston and Peter Zazofsky of the Muir String Quartet. She performed as a soloist with her private teacher of 12 years, Graybert Beacham, in Edward Elgar’s “The Snow” on a recent Syncopations trip to London. Dumas will attend Wellesley College this fall.

Sister and brother Emma and Ben Lively created the award to give back to a community that supported them in their musical endeavors and to recognize talented young musicians and encourage them to continue to pursue their dreams. They are now both professional musicians living and working in New York City.

Emma Lively (MBHS class of 1991) has collaborated with Julia Cameron (bestselling author, “The Artist’s Way”) since 1998, serving as co-composer on their musicals under the guidance of the Vineyard Theatre (Avenue Q), composer Conrad Cummings (the Juilliard School) and Tony Award-winning director Jack Hofsiss (“The Elephant Man”). She attended Boston University and SUNY/Stony Brook in viola performance, was a founding member of Khali String Quartet and did ppostgraduate studies at the Juilliard School in composition, orchestration and conducting.

Ben Lively (MBHS class of 1995) is a violinist and composer. He has extensive performance and recording credits in multiple styles, including jazz, rock, bluegrass and other improvised music. He has a BA from Middlebury College and jazz violin studies with Stephane Grappelli protg Dider Lockwood at the Centre des Musiques Didier Lockwood in Paris, France.