The Javacya Arts Conservatory kicks off its 2023 Scholarship Partners fundraiser with a YouTube-A-Thon Virtual Concert on Sunday, January 8, 2023, at 2:30 PM, featuring two very talented performers.  Hope Ward is a violist and daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Charlie (Tonja) Ward and the sister to Caleb and Joshua Ward. She currently attends Texas Christian University (TCU) and is majoring in Sports Broadcasting and minoring in Viola Performance. She has been selected twice for the prestigious Sphinx Performance Academy and three times for the East Carolina University Four Seasons Summer Chamber Music Institute. She has also been selected multiple times to perform on honors recitals at the American Suzuki Institute at the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, and the Pennsylvania Suzuki Institute. By audition, Hope has been twice selected to perform at the Honor’s Recital for the Advanced Suzuki Institute at Stanford University and was selected for their Virtuosi and Chamber Music Institutes in 2019. Hope was selected for the 2020 SPHINX Performance Academy at The Juilliard School and for the 2021 Florida All-State Symphony Orchestra.
Julian E. White, II is a trumpeter and the son of Dr. Julian E. White and Dennine White. He currently attends Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Oberlin, OH on a full scholarship, majoring in trumpet performance.  While in high school, Julian was the drum major for the Marching Redcoats and trumpet section leader for the symphonic band. He was the principal trumpet with the Tallahassee Youth Symphony and brass quintet. He also participated with the Javacya Elite Chamber Orchestra where he served as a guest soloist.  Through an audition process, he was appointed first chair trumpet for the Florida District 3 Symphonic Band. Julian’s goal is to perform with a major symphony orchestra and with an orchestra to record movie soundtracks and video games. Julian has studied with Javian Brabham, trumpet professor at Valdosta State University, and Grammy Awarding winning Trumpeter and Director of the Count Basie Orchestra, Scotty Barnhart.