WSMA exemplary award winners from Middleton High School

MCPASD Musicians Earn Exemplary Performance Awards at WSMA State Solo & Ensemble Festival

Carrie Brooker I Public Relations Specialist

May 13, 2026

More than 150 music students from Middleton High School, Kromrey Middle School and Glacier Creek Middle School participated in the Wisconsin School Music Association (WSMA) State Solo & Ensemble Festival hosted at UW-Platteville on April 25.

Students qualified by earning high marks at earlier festivals in February and March. They performed solos or small ensembles in front of a judge and audience members, and received scores and commentary on their performance.

At the festival, 32 MCPASD performances – the most of any school district in the state – were nominated for the prestigious WSMA Exemplary Performance Award; 17 performances went on to receive the award.

Students are nominated for the award for musical performances that far exceed an expected high school level. Each of the 20 judges at the festival can only select two of the more than 1,000 performances to receive the award.

Congratulations to all the students who were nominated for or received an Exemplary Performance Award! Listed below are all MCPASD students who were nominated for the award; those in bold received the award.

  • Magritte Babel-Co - Bb Clarinet Solo

  • Aditya Behara - Flute Solo

  • Ethan Bregman - Oboe Solo

  • Matthew Anderson, Cuvin Bhagavath, Sophia Bonti, Edward Yao - Saxophone Quartet

  • Asha Chakravartula & Kavya Kashyap - Flute Duet

  • Diya Chilukuri, Pavil Jones, Annie Luna, Vivian Feng - Violin Choir

  • Danicka Coughlin, KMS - Flute Solo

  • Mazi Dossa/ Mallory Peters - Music Theater Duet

  • Caleb Eggert - Euphonium Solo

  • Timothy Eyring-Green - Trombone Solo

  • Vivian Feng - Violin Solo

  • Vivian Feng, Shaila Holland, Hailey Marshall, Kyle McIntosh - String Quartet

  • Vivian Feng - Piano Solo

  • Pierson Frank - Euphonium Solo

  • Isaac Freiberg - Bass Solo

  • Shaila Holland - Violin Solo

  • Zane Johanson - Marimba Solo

  • Vivian Kammer - Trombone Solo

  • Isa Killian - Soprano Solo

  • Josephine Thomas, Christin Yu, Thea Langlois, Yunyi Shen - Flute Quartet

  • Hailey Marshall - Viola Solo

  • Aditya Behara, Aiden Wijeyakulasuriya, Mia Weiler, Hailey Marshall, Kenneth Bickett - Woodwind Quintet

  • Kyle McIntosh - Cello Solo

  • Podero Olson - Trombone Solo

  • Mallory Peters - Soprano Solo

  • Lily Tressler - Timpani Solo

  • Audrey VanBendegom - Flugelhorn Solo

  • Eason Wong, KMS - Cello Solo

  • Aiden Wijeyakulasuriya - Oboe Solo

  • Iris Xia - Violin Solo

  • Edward Yao - Eb Alto Saxophone Solo

  • Levin Zhang, GCMS - Piano Solo