Anna-Ruth Boyce, age 18, graduated from Kelsey Creek Home School Center in June 2002.  She has completed Year ll of Seattle Conservatory of Music’s Academic and Chamber Music Programs.  SCM has gifted Anna-Ruth with a full scholarship for violin lessons, classes and chamber music thru the Dorothy Richard Starling Violin Foundation.  Anna-Ruth has represented SCM on radio, in it’s Sunday at 7:00 Recital Series and will make her Starling Violin Scholar debut at Benaroya’s Recital Hall, Friday, May 30; Anna-Ruth began violin at age 5 with Suzanne Collette in the Suzuki Program.  She continued her studies with Leslie Johnson, Debra Zadinsky, Scott Ligocki and Kim Zabelle.  Anna-Ruth joined the Pressley Violin Studio in September, 2001.  She has served as Concertmaster of the Seattle Junior Symphony and is presently Concertmaster of the Seattle Youth Symphony.  She has received Certificates of Merit in the Seattle Young Artist Music Festival, was a 2001 Finalist in the American String Teacher Association National Competition, and won 1^st Place in the 2002 Simon-Fiset High School Violin Competition.  Anna-Ruth made her solo with her sister Alyssa at age 10 with the Youth Philharmonic Northwest and since then she has soloed with the Musicians Emeritus Orchestra and Eastside Symphonies. Anna-Ruth has been invited by the Eastside Symphony to solo again with them on June 7 and 8.  She is looking forward to assisting Margaret Pressley this summer at Indiana University Summer String Academy.  Anna-Ruth will begin her college applications this fall, pursuing a career as a professional violinist.