Without my family and my closest friends, I would not have the push to pursue my passion. Without them, the concept of music would cease to exist in my life. I plan to pick my career based on my talent, my personality, and what I really want to get out of a career. As a child, I was determined to become an artist when I grew up. I took lessons, entered contests, and I loved working with different utensils. As I grew older, however, that changed. My parents wanted me to try different things other than just creating artwork. When I was in fourth grade, I learned how to play the recorder in class. Then I started taking piano lessons outside of school. This was the time I was introduced to music, and at first, I strongly disliked the literature. I struggled with music theory. Eventually after a year, I stopped playing the piano and decided to try a different instrument by becoming a part of the school orchestra in my fifth grade year. I had the choice of choosing to learn the violin or the cello. At first, I considered playing the cello, but my dad wanted me to play the …show more content…
I am currently assistant concertmaster in my school symphonic orchestra as a sophomore. I am not taking lessons at the moment, but I have studied with five different teachers who had years of experience with music. The knowledge and advice they were able to pass on truly helped me better understand what I plan signing up for as a music performance major once I graduate high school, and helped improve the way I play so that I could articulate in a way that would be comprehensible. This support is slowly molding me to become a great concert violinist. Being an aspiring musician has helped me to drastically improve my leadership, allowed me to have a better concept of what I would most likely be facing in the future when I accomplish my goals, and overall prepared me in almost every way
For almost 8 years of my life, playing the cello has influenced my life in so many extraordinary ways. Choosing the cello over any instrument, was probably one of the best decisions I will have ever made, in the 5th grade. The violin was way too high, the viola was way too small, while the upright bass was way too big. I knew at that very moment that the cello was the instrument that I wanted to play. The warmth of the instruments tone, and the powerful sound that came out of the f-holes drew me in so quickly.
I, Hope Turnbull, am a Senior of Stockton High School in Stockton Kansas. My plans consist of attending North Central Kansas Technical College starting Fall 2016, where I want to begin my study of nursing. Due to me having all of my general education courses finished upon my college arrival, I have been accepted into the first year Nursing Program (LPN). I believe that I deserve this scholarship due to me excelling in my education at a very young age. My grades are earned as A’s and B’s in school.
As a child I did not know a lot about college. None of the adults in my life had been to College, my family did not talk about it, and it seemed like a distant land that I heard about only in movies and on Television. I was first introduced to college when my third grade class took a field trip to Iowa State University, clearly a much needed field trip considering my lack of exposure to higher education. I was immediately amazed by the grand architecture and massive buildings. I had never seen anything like a University campus before. The few things that I remember about the trip were that everything was big, the college students played with us, and we got to swim in the pool. While the larger purpose of the field trip may have been lost to my childhood excitement of getting to swim in a big pool, the field trip did mark the beginning of my knowledge of higher education and from then on I always viewed it as something that I would be a part of eventually, even if it did seem like a very distant future at age eight. As I grew older I developed other reasons for wanting to attend colle...
When I was in elementary school, State Road always had assemblies and invited people to come perform for the students. During one assembly we walked down to the cafeteria and when I got down there I saw the High School Jazz Band. After listening to the sweet music I felt inspired and I wanted to learn how to play an instrument one day in the Jazz Band. In middle school I learned how to play the trumpet and wanted to become a good musician so I practiced and worked on my tonality. When I finally got to symphonic band in high school I was nervous because I knew I was one step closer to being in the Jazz Band.
Since I was young, music have always played a major part in my life and to this day it
As 4th grade came around, I only had a select set of few friends. These friends are the same friends that stuck by me all throughout first grade up until now. With being socially deprived and craving friendship, I grew lonely. Just to get my mind off of feeling avoided, a quarter of the way into my 4th grade year, I took up learning an instrument. I spent all my 4th grade year digging into music, playing the clarinet and learning the ins and outs of the wood winds.
My family’s always been musically interested, I was a bit slow to catch on though. My mother and sister played the piano, and my father likes jazz. Since my sister played piano, and had become somewhat decent at it, my mother thought that I should be dragged into the musical arts. Time went by and I finally picked the saxophone around the beginning of fourth grade. We borrowed a saxophone from a friend and went to the music store where I met my first teacher, Matt Tracy.
I am a violinist. It has been my passion, life and soul for fourteen years of my life and I continue to strive to develop my skills on it. Playing violin from the young age of four has been my biggest boon. I grew up surrounded by musicians: my grandfather taught violin to my mother, my mother to my brother and me, and my father was a former Fulbright scholar with a DMA (Doctor of Musical Arts) degree from Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music.
As you see me currently, I am a music education major that specializes in percussion at San Jose State university. There were events that happened in my life for me to choose to study music for my future. I would not say that the first thing that made me interested in music was my parents playing their playlist around the house when I was little or when they paid an instructors to teach me piano or drum set. The actually spark for music for me was in sixth grade elementary school, as I attending a middle school concert in a gym for my sister, Lucy, as she performed with the guitar class.
I feel proud to have grown up in a musical environment, as my grandfather was a professional musician who played in several professional symphony orchestras, my mother learned violin from my grandfather, then my older brother from her and then I did. On the other hand, my father is a former Fulbright Scholar with a DMA (Doctor of Musical Arts) degree from the College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati. Although they have all have been a tremendous inspiration, it was my own will, passion and love for music that led me to pursue such career.
When a music program at my elementary school was offered to fifth graders, I decided to join the program. I chose the violin as it was a beautiful sounding instrument that I heard most often in Broadway musicals. The violin was also one of the most challenging instruments to play. Within the first few months, some of my classmates quit the music program out of frustration of playing such a difficult
A global citizen is that who is willing to use its voice and knowledge to make a change. No one would ever be able to make a change in just one day, it is something that takes time and devotion. I’m really interested in diversity and I’m seeking to what is my role is as a world citizen. The fact that I’m searching for an international education is the proof of my desire to establish myself as a global citizen and my interest in the world issues.
I began taking piano lessons in third grade and progressed to learn the basics of how to play and read sheet music. Then, my teacher moved to another school, so I was left to work on my own. I taught myself how to play chords and began playing popular rock songs from the 1960s. Soon afterwards, I discovered that I could play by ear, meaning that I could play a song just by hearing it. Reading sheet music became less essential to me, as I could simply hear a song or melody and easily figure out how to play it.
I was eight years old. From that moment on, music became a passion and a purpose that stayed with me into adulthood. I survived the likes of Bach, Chopin, and Mozart only through perseverance and a strong work ethic instilled in me by my parents. Although my piano fingers, for the most part, have retired, I will use that same level of passion, perseverance, and purpose through my career as a law student and as an attorney.
At the age of seven, I knew I had a love for music. When I was younger I started in my local church choir. By the time I was old enough to lead a song I started to sing in my middle school choir. During the sixth grade, the high school band director was starting his beginner band, and I joined. While