LWMTA General Meeting
January 20th, 2026, 10:30 am
Northwest Pianos & Online

Call to order: 10:00 am
Attendees: 8 in person, and 1 online

Old Business

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

Announcements/New Business

MGR (Kaitlin for Iris Hsu) . MGR on 1/25 will be at Bellewood Retirement community center in Issaquah. Registration is closed. The next one on Sunday 3/1 will be at Madison house in Kirkland.
Shadow for MAP Chair (Kaitlin Mitchell) Kaitlin will contact participating MAP teachers for the chair position for next year.

MAP registration is closed as of 1/10/26. Selina informed that all required forms for MAP could be found online. Music should have measures numbered. Both certificates for memory and no memory are given to teachers . Please ask Selina if you have any additional questions regarding the MAP.

Young Composers Recital (Kaitlin Mitchell) Registration is closed and 11 students will be participating this year. It is financially a self supportive program.

Scholarship Competition (Nicole Kim): Both forms, on-line and manual, are ready. Registration would begin after MAP completed.

February Meeting (Kaitlin Michell): Ryan, the state vice president, will come next month to discuss the venue for the state conference.

Presentation: “(Not Another) Lecture on Bach Performance on the Piano”, Dr. Ricardo de la Torre, NCTM

More than presenting “the ideal way” to play Bach’s music on the modern piano, this session aims to pose questions and offer an array of possibilities to face the multiple problems with which modern musicians are presented when approaching this music. Issues of notation, performance practice, instruments and specific examples of particularly tricky-to-interpret excerpts from Bach’s output will be explored. While this presentation is mainly aimed at pianists and piano teachers, its contents would be useful to all musicians playing Bach on other instruments. Excerpts from Bach unaccompanied violin and/or violin and or cello works will be included.

Meeting Adjourned (12:05 am)

Respectfully submitted,

Nicole Kim, Chapter Secretary