Wesley Reznicek is a 15 year old high school sophomore from Dixon, Missouri. He began classical piano lessons at age six and got hooked on ragtime about four years later. Wesley has played at the Scott Joplin Festival in Sedalia, Missouri; the Scott Joplin House in Saint Louis; the Blind Boone Festival in Columbia, Missouri; the Eau Claire Ragtime Festival in Wisconsin and at contests and concerts for The Ragtime for Tulsa Foundation. Wesley won the junior division of the World Championship of Old Time Piano Playing Contest in Peoria, Illinois in 2007 and came in second in 2008. In addition to ragtime, Wesley plays keyboard in his church youth band and euphonium in his school band. Wesley in excited to be at the West Coast Festival for the first time and hopes to return year after year.