Ten WMA music students traveled to Westfield State College on November 14 to join over 700 area high school musicians to audition for the Massachusetts Music Educators Association (MMEA) Western District Festival. Our students have been working diligently to prepare for these auditions, which included performing for two adjudicators a required piece, scales, and sight reading. The top scoring students will be invited to participate in the festival, and the students with the very highest scores will also be invited to audition for the MMEA All State Festival.

The following students ably represented WMA at the auditions: violinists Chien-Hsiang Liao ’10, Naruhiko Sugiura ’11, HeeWon Yoon ’13, and Chi Zhang ’11; flautist Brooke Mele ’11; Wooyoung Choi ’11 on alto sax; Chien-Hao Lin ’10 on tenor sax; Sea Yoon Park ’11 on oboe; Chongxuan Qiu ’13 on jazz alto sax; and bass vocalist Young-Jun Lee ’12.