Sylvester Stehr won the Lewis County Music Teachers Association’s annual play-off earlier this month at the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Adna.
Stehr was part of a field of seven pianists competing to be selected as the Lewis County representative to the Washington State Music Teachers’ conference in June at Lower Columbia College in Longview.
David Sexsmith, son of Evelyn Sexsmith, of Napavine, and James Sexsmith, of Chehalis, received alternate representative, and Elizabeth Mittge, daughter of Brian and Sarah Mittge, of Chehalis, earned an unranked honorable mention.
Stehr, Sexsmith and Mittge entertained those in attendance with selections composed by Debussy, Liszt and Chopin.
Sexsmith and Mittge are students of Kay Morton. Stehr, son of Chris and Margaret Stehr, is a student of Judy Meyers.
The students will perform at 3 p.m. May 4 at the Immanuel Lutheran Church in Centralia. The Honors Recital is open to the public and features students from four other counties.
