Mendham Student Named Outstanding Musician Of The Month

MENDHAM, N.J. – Elizabeth Sauerman is ending her middle school career on a high note.

The Mountain View Middle School eighth-grader was recently named among Morris County’s outstanding musicians for the month of April by the Mayo Performing Arts Center in Morristown.

Sauerman was nominated by her teacher, Leigh Carpenter, who said:

Elisabeth Sauerman has been nominated because she has a passion and love of music that drives her to excellence on her instrument. The music captures Elisabeth's heart and she appreciates all the nuances, the articulations, the phrasing, the melodies and harmonies, and how it all fits together with the whole group moving and playing together. Elisabeth's focus is on musicality. She researches and suggests repertoire for us to play. She is always willing to help out, doing whatever is needed to improved the band. She is a wonderful young woman of great character who is nothing but positive, kind, and respectful to everyone.

Pictured: From left; George Dailey, Treasurer of the Provident Bank Foundation; Nicholas Colella, Grade 11, Parsippany High School, Parsippany; Morgan Festa, Grade 8, Kinnelon Middle School, Kinnelon; Stephen Goodyear, Grade 8, Mount Olive Middle School, Budd Lake; Victor Nazzaro, Grade 11, Morristown High School, Morristown; Alex Paulozzo, Grade 6, John Hill School, Boonton; Alejandro De Los Santos, Grade 10, Dover High School, Dover; Elisabeth Sauerman, Grade 8, Mountain View Middle School, Mendham. Not pictured: Jamie Lai; Jacob Luciani.