Every year, a quad concert is organized to give our young orchestra players from local schools the chance to play at a concert combined with our school’s music program and local schools usually consisting...
Mountlake Terrace isn’t always the most student-accessible.
What if you were in a wheelchair, your bus was late, and you couldn’t get to class on time? What if you had diabetes and couldn’t check...
By Terina Papatu, Co-editor-in-chief
• March 27, 2025
The Mountlake Terrace Jazz 1 & 2 bands performed among 11 other local high school bands at the Newport High School Jazz festival in Bellevue on March 22, making it into the finals along with Shorewood...
Four talented musicians from MTHS’s band and orchestra program have been selected to perform with the Washington All-State Music Ensembles in Yakima later this month.
Daniela Coretezzo (trumpet),...
By Kaylee Miyamoto, Social Media/Online Manager
• May 21, 2023
Ever since the first Edmonds Jazz Connection, MTHS has performed and for their 21st performance, two members of Jazz 1, seniors Ryan Acheson and Gabriel Espitia, received a $2,000 scholarship for their...
In mid-May, the posters for Essentially Ellington arrived from New York, all shipped to the home of sophomore Jazz 1 trumpeter Eli Faris. Throughout the day, band members or their parents arrived as Faris...
After 300 miles on the road, senior jazz 2 pianist Lindee Cutler and I joined the rest of the band halfway through featured artist Sean Jones’ set, with drummer Chris Brown, bassist Dave Captein...
Terrace’s Jazz Ensemble 1 has once again been selected to participate in the 25th annual Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition and Festival hosted by Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York...
Backstage on December 17, the large MTHS Symphonic Band whispered excitedly before they went on stage. “It’s our last concert of the decade,” someone quipped, probably for the hundredth time. The...
Winter is perhaps the busiest time of year for the Mountlake Terrace Jazz bands. They just finished a round of clinics with esteemed musician Justin DiCioccio less than a week after coming back from a...
On the evening of August 29, students from the MTHS Jazz program came together for an intimate, hidden gem of a concert. The standard format, in which performers are segregated into their classes --...
The Paramount Theater has over 3,000 seats, and every March, Hot Java, Cool Jazz (HJCJ) fills all of them. Every year, elite jazz bands from five Washington high schools are invited to perform on behalf...
