The Ruston Area Music Teachers Association’s annual Solo Festival was held this past Saturday at the Louisiana Tech School of Music with multiple students qualifying for the Honors Recital.

Morning performances were judged privately. Students scoring 98-100 would then go on to perform at the afternoon honors recital.

Overall Winners were selected in each grade division based on their recital performance.

RAMTA teachers represented on the recitals were: Dee Alexander, Pat Burns, Cody Chandler, Denise Cox, Pam Givens, Cindy Hockenjos, Shirley Maynor, Steele Moegle, Jeanne Patterson, Katie Roberts, Jon Sorenson and Kathie Venable.

Honors recital participants are included below, with the winner bolded in each category.

Voice A (3rd – 6th grade)
Ester Allen
Mia Le
Kaejha Stewart

Voice B (7th – 8th grade)
Chelsea DeForest
Shyla Giddens
Raygen Malone
Emma Kate Toms

Voice C (9th – 11th grade)
Kate Harris
Melissa Le
Madison Turner

Voice D (12th grade)
Kate Barron
John Abran Earle
Ava James
Adrian Lamkin
Laina Parkman

Piano (K – 1st grade)
Molley Mikel Flowers
Lilah Garmon
Iris Xiao

Piano (2nd grade)
Ashby McCoy
Clark Reigelman
Patrick Singh

Piano (3rd grade)
Ester Allen
Jon Claire Goodwin
Krystal Jeong
Jack McGehee
Abigail Powers

Piano (4th grade – tie)
Shepard McCoy
Collins Reigelman

Piano (5th grade – tie) 
Lucas Chen
Eli Guillot
Lilly Pendergrass
Jonathan Powers
Alice Roberts

Piano (6th grade)
Benjamin McCoy
John Cole Parker
Zoey Wang

Piano (7th grade)
Brady Berg
Ava Good
Millie Marie McGehee
Aubrey Smith

Piano (8th – 9th grade – tie)
Caed Baines
Laney Carter
Rory Driskill
Isaac McCoy
Madison Morris
Preston Parker
Maggie Rogers

Piano (10th – 12th grade)
Elena Baines
Kate Barron
Maddy Farnell
MyliePiper Thomas

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