The Hawkeye

Jazz ensembles impress at newport, prep for more

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...

Musicians hit a high note at SNO-KING

By Kaylee Miyamoto, Hawkeye Staff • February 21, 2024

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),...

Terrace musicians receive scholarships

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...

Jazz 1 finishes year with virtual Essentially Ellington

By Amy Harris, Hawkeye Staff • June 24, 2020

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...

Jazz 1 on the road to prestigious festival

By Theresa Van, Lifestyle Editor • March 2, 2020

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...

Jazz celebrates holidays, previews things to come

By Amy Harris, Hawkeye Staff • December 26, 2019

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...

Favorites return and freshmen debut at Jazz Collective concert

By Amy Harris • September 9, 2019

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 --...

Jazz 1 exhilarates crowd at Hot Java, Cool Jazz

By Amy Harris • April 11, 2019

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...

Terrace jazz stuns at the Oregon Jazz Festival

By Amy Harris • February 12, 2019

Many Mountlake Terrace jazz students were not in a good mood on Saturday, Jan. 26. The day prior, they had to get up early and leave the school at 7:30 a.m. to take a seven and a half hour trip to the...

Jazz 1 brings home honors from 23rd annual Essentially Ellington

By Annika Prom, Lifestyle Editor • May 19, 2018

The judges for the 23rd annual Essentially Ellington Competition & Festival (Essentially Ellington) announced the top three performing bands on Saturday, May 12 in Rose Theater in Jazz at Lincoln Center....

Jazz 1 takes Essentially Ellington stage by storm

By Annika Prom, Lifestyle Editor • May 15, 2018

Months of practice and preparation paid off once again as Jazz Ensemble 1 (Jazz 1) took center stage at the 23rd annual Essentially Ellington Competition & Festival (Essentially Ellington)...

Jazz 1 completes first day of Essentially Ellington with pomp

By Annika Prom, Lifestyle Editor • May 12, 2018

Jazz Ensemble 1 (Jazz 1) spent nearly the entirety of their Thursday at Jazz at Lincoln Center (JALC) for a long day of preparation, balanced with lavish treatment, for the Essentially Ellington Competition...