The Leonore Annenberg Fellowship Fund for the Performing and Visual Arts, a 10-year program that is now in its seventh year, will award fellowships to seven young artists from diverse backgrounds, including a violinist who grew up in rural Kentucky and has won several important classical music prizes, but also doubles as a bluegrass fiddler, and a dancer with American Ballet Theater who began his career path when, as a 14-year-old in Florida, he auditioned for a performing arts high school on a whim.

The fellowships, which are expected to be announced on Tuesday, are for “young artists of exceptional promise,” and include grants of $50,000 a year for up to two years. The fund maintains partnerships with several schools and arts organizations – among them, the Metropolitan Opera, the Yale School of Drama, the New England Conservatory of Music, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and Ballet Theater – which recommend potential recipients of the fellowships.

The 2014 winners include three musicians, two actresses, a visual artist and a dancer. The musicians are:

Ryan Speedo Green, a bass-baritone who was raised in southeastern Virginia and who will join the roster of the Vienna State Opera after completing his studies at the Met’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program this spring.

Francesca dePasquale, a violinist from a family of string players (her mother is a cellist with the Philadelphia Orchestra; her father was that ensemble’s concertmaster for many years), who is currently Itzhak Perlman’s teaching assistant at the Juilliard School, where she is completing her master’s degree.

Tessa Lark, a violinist from Kentucky who is currently based in Boston, who was the winner of the both the Naumburg International Violin Competition and the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition in 2012.

The actresses awarded fellowships are Molly Bernard, who studied with her grandfather at the Joseph Bernard Acting Studio, and at the Yale School of Drama, and performed in the Yale Repertory Theater’s 2013 production of Dario Fo’s “Accidental Death of an Anarchist,” and Sarah Sokolovic, a graduate of the Yale School of Drama, who has performed in “The Shaggs” and “Detroit,” at Playwrights Horizons, and on television in “The Good Wife” and “Unforgettable.” Ms. Sokolovic has also completed a screenplay and has two more in the works.

Mia Rosenthal, the visual artist who was awarded a fellowship, studied at Parsons the New School for Design and the Pennsylvania Academy and specializes in works on paper. And the dancer, Calvin Royal III, joined Ballet Theater’s roster after studying in Florida, winning a national youth competition in 2006, and enrolling at the company’s pre-professional school.

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