2025 Teagarden Jazz Festival Awards

$14,700 in Awards/ Scholarships administered by SacJEF & awarded by jazz clinicians.

ELEMENTARY/ MIDDLE SCHOOL MUSICIANS - $2700
11 Certificates of Excellence (since 2016)

Awarded on banjo, bass, clarinet, drum, guitar, piano, sax, trombone, trumpet, tuba, vocal.
2 ($500) Music Lesson Awards (since 2006)
2 ($850) Rita Reed Jazz Camp Scholarships (since 2006) *

6 HIGH SCHOOL MUSICIANS JAZZ CAMP SCHOLARSHIPS - $5100

2 ($850) Rita Reed Jazz Camp Scholarships for Musicians in Room 1 (Since 2006) *
2 ($850) Rita Reed Jazz Camp Scholarships for Musicians in Room 2 (Since 2006) *
1 ($850) Tom & Jan Arnold Jazz Camp Scholarships for Outstanding Female Leader in Room 1 (Since 2018) *
1 ($850) Tom & Jan Arnold Jazz Camp Scholarships for Outstanding Female Leader in Room 2 (Since2018) *

11 OVERALL HIGH SCHOOL OUTSTANDING MUSICIANSHIP - $5,500  

Please note that Private/Club bands of HS musicians are now included in the HS Division. Students ages 12-18 are eligible for Outstanding Musicianship cash awards. Funded by private donors who specified the recipient criteria or from donor-established Endowment Funds, most are memorial scholarships designed to honor someone, others created by donors to inspire students to further their jazz education.

Our goal is to have a scholarship for every standard instrument in early jazz. At this time, we are in need of scholarship donors for the following instrument categories:  guitar, saxophone, string bass and tuba. These scholarships are a $500 cash award on each instrument.  

Bob Draga Clarinet Scholarship (since 2013) for Outstanding Clarinet
Dillon Weatherly Trumpet Scholarship (since 2017) for Outstanding Trumpet *
William J. Au Trombone Scholarship (since 2025) for Outstanding Trombone *
James Rocco Fusaro Vocal Scholarship (since 2018) for Outstanding Vocal *
Ron Jones Drum Scholarship (since 2020) for Outstanding Drum
Norma Teagarden Piano Scholarship (since 2006) for Outstanding Piano *
Stan Cummings Memorial Banjo Scholarship (since 2018) for Outstanding Banjo *
Guitar Scholarship (since 2023) for Outstanding Guitar
Saxophone Scholarship (since 2023) for Outstanding Saxophone
String Bass Scholarship (since 2023) for Outstanding Bass
Jim Maihack Tuba Scholarship (since 2023) for Outstanding Tuba

2 COLLEGE OUTSTANDING MUSICIANSHIP - $1,400

1 ($700) Kenton O. Smith Traditional Jazz College Scholarship (since 2006) for Outstanding Sac State Univ. Musician * 
1 ($700) Outstanding College Musician (since 2007)

*From an endowment fund