Music always surrounds me. I love listening to music, doodling around on piano and guitar, and singing in the car or in the shower. Unless you’re a music major, I can probably tell you anything you want to know about music, from technical ornaments, to expressive passages, to recording procedures in the studio. Aside from music I also have interests in religion and politics, sociology art, and philosophy.

I’ve been playing the piano since I was seven years old. Throughout my childhood I had been taking lessons from one piano teacher, Mrs. Ball. In Fourth Grade, I picked up the viola, and then switched to the trombone in Sixth Grade. I played trombone in the Lanier Middle School band, and in the Fairfax High School marching, symphonic, and jazz bands for all four years. I continued with the trombone in the Virginia Tech Marching Virginians for three years. I also picked up the alto saxophone and participated in the University Campus Band during the spring semester of my sophomore year at VT.