Ragtime Musician Scholarships
After the 2019 festival we initiated an ongoing scholarship under the "Historic Sutter Creek Ragtime Festival", that will be offered to graduating high school seniors with an emphasis in Music and a commitment to study music in their higher education. We will continue to award a $400 scholarship to deserving Senior graduates in the coming years. We hope to increase the amount offered in the years to come.
The festival was proud to give it's first scholarship within our Ragtime Community to: Anthony Sarginson who is pursuing a musical composition degree through Fresno State University. He recently graduated from High School and is embarking on his musical journey. Anthony is a regular at many ragtime festivals as well as performing here is Sutter Creek. You may read the letter from Anthony that he wrote expressing his thanks for receiving the scholarship and of of his aspirations for the future. Anthony was the perfect person to receive the our annual scholarship.
(View the letter at the Sierra Foothills Ragtime Society Page)
After the 2019 festival we initiated an ongoing scholarship under the "Historic Sutter Creek Ragtime Festival", that will be offered to graduating high school seniors with an emphasis in Music and a commitment to study music in their higher education. We will continue to award a $400 scholarship to deserving Senior graduates in the coming years. We hope to increase the amount offered in the years to come.
The festival was proud to give it's first scholarship within our Ragtime Community to: Anthony Sarginson who is pursuing a musical composition degree through Fresno State University. He recently graduated from High School and is embarking on his musical journey. Anthony is a regular at many ragtime festivals as well as performing here is Sutter Creek. You may read the letter from Anthony that he wrote expressing his thanks for receiving the scholarship and of of his aspirations for the future. Anthony was the perfect person to receive the our annual scholarship.
(View the letter at the Sierra Foothills Ragtime Society Page)
The 2021 Scholarship Recipient:
William Leonard is a very talented young man that made the trek from
Oregon with his parents to Sutter Creek for the 2021 Festival and won the audiences over.
He is the perfect candidate to receive this year's scholarship!
We have invited him back as a performer for the 2022 festival.
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William Francis Leonard, 13, from Portland, Oregon started his piano journey at the age of 8. It was 2019 when he discovered ragtime, boogie-woogie, and stride and used his time to build a small catalog of pieces for performance. William is working with his piano teacher on composing several new rags and intends to produce a recording of his work in 2021 & 2022.
William attends an option school focused on Arts & Communication where he has taken several leading roles for school plays. He is looking forward to returning to in-person learning where he can join his friends in creating the art and music that inspires him.
(View William's Thank you letter on the Sierra Foothills Ragtime Society Page)