I often call music my first love. As a toddler I would always find myself playing the piano at my grandparents house, or the organ at my great aunt's house. I started taking lessons soon after and have been playing ever since. In the third grade I picked up the cello and played in my schools orchestra until I graduated High School. During that time I won awards for performance, composing, and conducting. My last few years of high school I helped one of my teachers teach a guitar class through our student service learning program.
"Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine."
-Ludwig van Beethoven