WSMTA Music Artistry Program is available to any student whose teacher is a member of the Tacoma Chapter. Students perform before a master teacher, with no audience. They are critiqued and encouraged in their musical ability and performance. 
MAPs Entry Deadline: -February 8th, 2021
Date of MAPs:- March 9th- 14th, 2021
Time: TBD
Location: Virtual 

Adjudicators for 2021 
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Dr. Renato Fabbro
Jeffery Gilliam
Dr. Merilyn Jacobson

Contact your private teacher or Tacoma Chapter MAPs chairperson Oksansa Ejokino for more information.

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Adjudicators 

Pianist Renato Fabbro was awarded the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Rice University as a full fellowship recipient. He has studied with such renowned pianists as Larry Graham, Angela Cheng and John Perry. Dr. Fabbro has performed at the Aspen Music Festival, Sarasota Music Festival, Boulder Bach Festival, Colorado Mozart Festival, and Astoria Music Festival. He has performed chamber music recitals with acclaimed violinist Frank Huang and Northwestern University clarinet professor Steven Cohen. As part of the Martingale Ensemble, he recorded a CD for MSR Classics of music by Claude Debussy and Gustav Mahler with members of the Oregon Symphony. He has judged numerous competitions, including the MTNA Northwest Division Piano Competition, Russian Chamber Music Foundation of Seattle Competition, Texas Music Teachers Association Performance Competition, Washington Outstanding Artist Competition, Chopin Northwest Competition, Reno Music Festival, Seattle Steinway Competition, Spokane Piano Competition, Musicfest Northwest, GMCC Piano Competition, Portland Young Pianists Competition, Seattle International Piano Festival, and Washington and Idaho MTNA Piano Competitions. He was also invited to give master classes for the Boise chapter of the National Federation of Music Clubs, the North Idaho Music Teachers Association, and the Young Artist Master Series in Everett, Washington.

Dr. Fabbro won the Adeline Rosenberg Memorial First Prize in the Fort Collins Symphony National Young Artist Competition as well as first prizes in the Grand Junction Symphony National Young Artist Competition, Colorado State Music Teachers Association Young Artists Piano Competition, Colorado University Honors Competition and several others. He has also won prizes and awards in the Lee Piano Competition, MTNA Young Artist Piano Competition and Jefferson Symphony International Young Artists Competition. He has been a featured soloist with the Oregon Symphony, Denver Philharmonic Orchestra, Fort Collins Symphony, Grand Junction Symphony, Coeur d'Alene Symphony and Colorado University Orchestra.   

​A dedicated teacher, Dr. Fabbro has had two MTNA national finalists and his students have won multiple first prizes in the Coeur d'Alene Symphony National Young Artist Competition, MTNA Northwest Division Piano Competition, Vancouver Symphony Young Artists Competition, Steinway & Sons Piano Competition, Portland Young Pianists Competition, Oregon MTNA Piano Competition (Junior, Senior and Young Artist Piano divisions), Spokane Piano Competition, Central Oregon Symphony Young Artists Competition, Portland Monday Musical Club Scholarship Competition, Oregon Symphony Wiscarson Competition, Beaverton Symphony Young Artists Competition, and Oregon Sinfonietta Concerto Competition. His students have also won first prizes in the Mondavi Center National Young Artist Competition, National Federation of Music Clubs Stillman Kelley National Award, Washington Outstanding Artist Competition, Eugene Symphony Young Artist Competition, Portland Youth Philharmonic Concerto Competition, American Fine Arts Festival International Concerto Competition (Grand Prize), and have been accepted into top piano performance degree programs, including the Eastman School of Music, Indiana University, Peabody Conservatory, Cleveland Institute of Music, Manhattan School of Music and Rice University Shepherd School of Music, among others.  For twelve years, Dr. Fabbro was a member of the piano faculty of the University of Portland.
 

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