Music Scholarships For 2012 High School Seniors

Each year the Charlotte County Jazz Society provides financial assistance to promising members of the Senior Class in the county's High Schools who wish to pursue careers in music or in music education.  Applicants must be residents of Charlotte County, Florida and graduate in the year 2012.  Scholarships of a minimum of $500 each will be awarded to students judged to deserve a scholarship from the Society.

To apply please obtain an Application Form by clicking the link below.  Read the instructions carefully then print and submit the form.

Click here:  2012 Scholarship Application to download a printable PDF Form.

Please enjoy this recently received letter from one of our scholarship winners:

"My name is Megan Machnik and I was one of the recipients of your scholarship program on 2002, when I graduated from Port Charlotte High School. Mr. Kraus was my private clarinet teacher throughout high school, and he recently mentioned to me that you might be interested in what I ´ve been doing recently with music.

I graduated from the University of Florida with a Bachelor of Music Performance degree in 2006 and then moved to Chicago with my husband and enrolled at the Chicago College of Performing Arts.

I studied with John Bruce Yeh, currently the Acting Principal clarinetist of the CSO, for two years until I received my Master´s degree in Clarinet Performance in 2008. My second year in graduate school, I was a teaching assistant in music history for undergraduates. Upon graduating, I taught private music lessons in the Chicago area for a year. Then, I had a wonderful opportunity to move to Brazil and learn Portuguese, and I have been residing in Rio de Janeiro for the past year and a half. While out of the country I ´ve been able to pick up saxophone, again with direction from Mr. Kraus, and now I ´m looking forward to relocating back to Chicago in the next 2 weeks and resume my music teaching.