April 21st, 2026, 10:30am

Northwest Pianos & Online

Call to order: 10:31 am

Attendees: 10 in person, 1 Online

Old Business

• Financial Reports (Makiko Meyer): Report given in the meeting.

Announcements/New Business

• MLP is Saturday May 9th with Eastside Chapter (Mary Kaye Owen): Redmond Episcopalian church will be the venue. As of today there are 33 students signed up and 4/22 is the deadline for  registration. May Kaye will have a meeting with the Eastside rep in a few days. Online registration is $3.50 for the WSMTA and $11.50 for LWMTA. Please  mail registration fee  to Mary Kaye or Makiko. For online payment, please pay it to Makiko directly through Zelle. Each teacher needs to be volunteered for 1 hour. And each session needs two teachers. Stephanie has a question regarding “Volunteering” before the day  when there is scheduling conflict on the day of MLP.

• Scholarship Competition (Nicole Kim): The competition is done successfully with the help of all participating teachers. There is a discussion about next year’s venue because Crossroad community center has some noise issues. 
• MGRs (Kaitlin Mitchell): No more MGRs planned for the rest of the school year as of now, according to Iris.
• Potluck Tuesday May 19th (Kaitlin Mitchell): Karen will be a host for the May pot luck. 
• Bonnie announced a new festival named Modern Classical Music Youth Festival(Northwest) which she planned on 6/6. The festival will be held at the Faith Lutheran church in Redmond. 

Presentation: “Websites and Apps for Music Teachers”

Presenter: Round-Table Discussion

Please join us as Kaitlin Mitchell leads us in a round table discussion about websites and apps that piano teachers use in their teaching and to run their businesses. 

Possibilities include:

• music notation software 
• music theory games/tools 
• sheet music websites 
• billing/business management apps/websites
• any other resources you find invaluable for your teaching! 

Come share your favorite tools and learn about new ones! 

Meeting Adjourned (12:00 pm)

Respectfully submitted,

Nicole Kim, Secretary of LWMTA