On May 3, 2025, EMTA teachers and students gathered for our annual Musicianship Festival in “The Musical Garden.” Students participated in many events for ribbons, including the Music Literacy Program, performances and projects. There were some incredible projects and performances! We had:

• 194 registrants, 170 day-of participants:
• 93 of 94% or higher on theory
• 61 got 98% or higher on theory
• 4 got 100% on all MLP exams

The following students received 100% on all 5 Music Literacy Program Exams:
Curran S. – Student of Laurie McFarland
Landon C. – Student of Cathy Baylor
Nora C. – Student of Angela Michael
Thiya B. – Student of Kathy Wolf

Special thanks to all our teacher volunteers from our Musicianship Festival Chair Extraordinaire Mary Walker-Lieberman:

Vera Borodina, Laurie McFarland, Roxanne Kar, Dawn Taylor-May, Frances Goei, Mary Beth Rogers, Brooke Shirts, Cathy Baylor, Marie Wollem-Mergler, Allan Park, Jennie Holland, Mariya Koshkina, Yelena Balabanova, Shaoming Sun Greene, Valerie Gathright, Conney Vernall, Jeffrey Pettijohn, Rick Asher, Kathy Wolf, Jensina Oliver, Laurie McFarland, Sarah Silvia, Stan Watkins, Tamara Wagle, Marilyn Droz

Students who received a 98% or higher on Theory were reported to the WSMTA Clarion Newsletter. Students who received a 94% or higher on Theory received a yellow, rosette theory honors ribbon, and a gold seal from WSMTA. Here are the top-scoring theory students by teacher:

Angela Michael
Aisling Tan, Level 2, 97%
Elly Jobe, Level 1, 98%
Jasmine Garcia, Level 4, 95%
Khoa Tran, Level 5, 100%
Lilly McIntyre, Level 1, 100%
Martin Oleson, Level 2, 100%
Nora Chan, Level 1, 100%

Brandi Bassett
Daniel Perez Melgar, Level 2, 98%

Cathy Baylor
Addison Wu, Level 4, 97%
Christian Pham, Level 4, 100%
Landon Cheung, Level 4, 100%
Millie Wu, Level 4, 100%
Skylar Murray, Level 3, 98%

Conney Vernall
Avril Wen, Level 3, 100%
Jairus Lau, Level 6, 98%
Serena Chang, Level 2, 98%
Shemmin Lau, Level 4, 97%
Tyson Yang, Level 2, 100%

Frances Goei
Annie Marston, Level 6, 98%
Colin Ip, Level 6, 94%
Harper Howell, Level 4, 97%
Jimmy Marston, Level 2, 99%
Zara Do, Level 9, 96%

Jeffrey Pettijohn
Eashaan Gangwai, Level 4, 100%
Elijah Barney, Level 1, 98%
Vanika Sharma, Level 2, 97%

Jennie Holland
Jude Schmidt, Level 5, 94%
Julien Mecum, Level 4, 98%
Mia Velji, Level 2, 100%
Saiesha Singh, Level 3, 95%
Valerie Lopez, Level 2, 100%

Jensina Oliver
Juliet Peddicord, Level 3, 96%
Natalie Wu, Level 4, 99%
Sanjana Harihara, Level 3, 98%
William Shirts, Level 10, 100%

Kathy Wolf
Albert Liu, Level 2, 100%
Ananya Raghavan, Level 4, 100%
Andrew Burrows, Level 8, 96%
Ariel Ma, Level 2, 97%
Arya Upadhyay, Level 2, 98%
Celine Hui, Level 3, 100%
Connor Erwin, Level 2, 100%
Vinaya Umanee, Level 2, 97%
Yaashika Sriram, Level 4, 99%

Laurie McFarland
Aden Hitchcock, Level 6, 98%
Asha Ruhl, Level 4, 100%
Callum Ma, Level 3, 99%
Curran Sankey, Level 1, 100%
Heidi Richardson, Level 1, 100%
Junia McBride, Level 5, 100%
Lydia Thomas, Level 6, 97%

Marie Wollam-Mergler
Ethan Shen, Level 4, 97%

Marilyn Droz
Kyle Louie, Level 1, 96%
Meilyr Andrus, Level 3, 94%
Rishi Suri, Level 2, 98%
Trygve Andrus, Level 5, 99%

Mary Beth Rogers
Amogh Kaarthik, Level 4, 98%
Annie Lin, Level 3, 98%
Auditri Das, Level 6, 97%
Claire Ngo, Level 3, 98%
Emma Yu, Level 3, 98%
Grace Ngo, Level 4, 96%
Ken Chaivirat, Level 4, 98%
Natcha Chaivirat, Level 3, 98%
Sharvaa Motghare, Level 3, 97%
Shravan Kumar, Level 6, 100%
Wesley Herron, Level 3, 100%
Zoey Nintcheu, Level 1, 98%

Mary Walker-Lieberman
Alexandra Klimczyk, Level 4, 98%

Roxanne Kar
Asher Price, Level 1, 100%
Clarice Kinsella, Level 4, 98%
Joanna Price, Level 5, 98%
Jozef Kocaj, Level 7, 100%
Liam Kinsella, Level 7, 95%

Sarah Silvia
Kylie Nomura, Level 4, 100%
Mia Nomura, Level 4, 99%
Penny Tomlin, Level 4, 95%
Sasha Borodina, Level 5, 94%
Zion Lam, Level 2, 100%

Stan Watkins
Ezra Fields, Level 4, 98%
Mehar Minhas, Level 3, 97%
Tyler Selman, Level 3, 97%

Tamara Wagle
Grace Mockus, Level 1, 100%
Ian Lau, Level 1, 97%
Maria Akimov, Level 2, 97%
Michael Akimov, Level 2, 97%
Nickolas Mockus, Level 2, 97%
Sophie Oprea, Level 3, 97%

Valerie Gathright
Annabelle Lai, Level 5, 96%
Ethan Carli, Level 3, 100%
Logan Lai, Level 7, 99%

Vera Borodina
Aarohi Kumar, Level 4, 98%
Esther Andreica, Level 2, 100%
Philipp Kim, Level 4, 97%

Congratulations to all our students who participated in the festival!