| Many people ask me how I ended up playing the cello. I’ve always been involved with music. Most of my influences come from being in a musical family. Everyone in my family can either sing, or play an instrument. My mother who is my inspiration is a talented singer who sang backup for various recording artists. Music has always been apart of my life in some way, either at school or at church .I attended an elementary school that focused on fine arts, and while I was still in elementary, I picked up some violin classes with Mr. Wu, I was the only one who took his class seriously and I enjoyed the violin and the music classes and I decided to pursue it after elementary. During fifth grade I moved to the Fort Bend area and attended Lexington Creek Elementary. In the last few months of school, some teachers from different middle schools came over to recruit students and exhibit instruments. I went to the orchestra programs open house and walked in with many other students who were just as excited as I was. At first my teacher wanted to me to try the bass, and I wasn’t having it! I said this is way too big! There’s no way I’m playing it! Finally she handed me the cello and said this is it, this is perfect, and I agreed. When middle school started I was more excited about my first day in orchestra class more than anything else. I was in this huge room with all these wonderful instruments and I had a very enthusiastic teacher who wanted to help us learn the craft of our new stringed instruments. It was more than coming from a musical background that gave me inspiration to keep playing, it was my enthusiastic teacher who cared enough to help me learn how to play. It was my instructors that helped me along the way and encouraged me to keep playing when times got really hard and when I really wanted to give up (there were many times that I wanted to quit). I’ve had really awesome teachers that taught me everything that I know now, and I’ve had some really mean teachers that were just into private lessons just for the money. I want to be one of those fantastic and enthusiastic teachers that inspire young people to become the best players that they can be. I know what its like to be a beginner in the music world. Not everyone starts off on top or sliding right into fourth position. Musicians are dreamers and we can achieve anything with a little sweat, and lots of practice with patient and understanding teachers, like myself! My goal is to savor every minute to ensure improvement during the beginning stages. I’ m enthusiastic about learning and teaching and improving the quality of just about everything like the quality of my students’ sound, posture, music reading, sight-reading and playing skills. |
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