2025 Fall Festival and Youth Competition
2025 Ragtime Festival and Youth Competition Registration
REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED – THE MAXIMUM HAS BEEN REACHED.
Event Date:
November 8, 2025, time TBA
Event Address:
Steinway Piano Gallery
1201 N Loop 1604 W Suite 107
San Antonio, TX 78232
Questions? Send E-mail to Mark Camann, Festival Chair: markcamann@gmail.com
For More Information: saragtime.org
Ragtime Festival and Competition 2025
On Saturday, November 8 the San Antonio Ragtime Society will sponsor its 22nd Ragtime Festival and Youth Competition. We strive to let people of all ages experience the great American music genre that is ragtime. This year our festival and competition will be at Steinway Piano Gallery. We are grateful to Steinway Piano Gallery for hosting us.
Festival Section: Students can play a solo rag at any level of difficulty. The genres of blues, jazz and boogie are welcome also. Participants will receive a score sheet with a judge’s comments on their playing, along with a trophy. Memorization is encouraged but not required. Duets at one piano are welcome.
Ragtime Competition: Students up to age 18 play by memory an unsimplified piano rag by a recognized ragtime composer. Stride piano and novelty piano from the 1920s are welcome also, but blues, jazz and boogie are not to be included in the competition. Performers are welcome to add embellishments that are not notated in the sheet music.
Prizes will be awarded to the first three places.
Both the festival and the competition will be in recital format, open for the public to attend and enjoy.
Ragtime Concert 2025
Our Ragtime Festival and Competition judges will give a Ragtime Concert on Sunday, November 9, 2025 at 2 pm at Radius Center, 106 Auditorium Circle Suite 120, San Antonio, TX 78205. Suggested donation is $20. Competition winners and contestants receiving Honorable Mention will be invited to perform in the Ragtime Concert.
REGISTRATION INSTRUCTIONS: PLEASE READ!!
REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED – THE MAXIMUM HAS BEEN REACHED.
2025 Ragtime Festival/Competition Registration (google.com)
Registrations and the registration fee of $25 per performer must be received by Monday, October 13, 2025. (Registration may be closed earlier than this registration deadline if the number of participants reaches the maximum that we are able to schedule in a single day.) By registering you agree to accept the opinion of the judge.
Please send a check or money order payable to San Antonio Ragtime Society at the following address:
San Antonio Ragtime Society
ATTN: Mark Camann
PO Box 33008, San Antonio, TX 78265.
Preferred option: Teachers can complete the registration form for each student and then send a single check or money order covering the registration fee for all of their student participants.
Thank you for completing the ONLINE form for each student. Your registration is not complete until you have mailed in your payment!
Festival flyer
Robert Edwards’ list of difficulty levels for Scott Joplin rags
