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...
Leader. Musician. Social worker. Advocate. These are some of the words that describe Jesse Guasch.
Guasch is the vice-president of the Latino Student Union (LSU). “I’ve led people in volunteering...
Ever since she was a young child, senior Riley Frank has enjoyed performing. Music has always been a central part of her, and it has only developed as she has gotten older.
“Everything in my life is...
By Terina Papatu, Co Editor-In-Chief
• June 15, 2023
Who else loves bass? No, not the fish, the instrument! From the moment senior Nathaniel Ballard was born, his life was flooded with music from his father, grandfather and even his aunt. Throughout his...
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...
On Nov. 4, MTHS hosted a swing dance, a night filled with fun dance, delicious desserts and wonderful jazz music. Performing were Jazz Ensemble 1 and 2 along with vocalists, soloists and even two dance...
Senior Anabelle Sumera-Decoret has enjoyed acting for as long as she can remember. She got her start in acting when she was in elementary school, falling in love with the art after participating in musicals...
From coming to Terrace as a freshman in 2018 to now, senior Beth Cohn has been seen all around the school in different clubs, sports and even more activities. Since freshman year they have been involved...
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...
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 --...
