A Quote by Lari White

I studied classical piano from the time I was 4 through my first year of college.

Lari White

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Classical College First Piano Studied Through Time Year

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Lari White
American - Musician
May 13, 1965 - January 23, 2018

I started playing piano when I was eight, and I went on to study piano in school, so I have a background in classical piano and studied composition in school. Writing music came later.

Julia Holter

In fact although I have studied in a Conservatory the classical piano, I do not consider myself a classical pianist.

Richard Clayderman

When I got to college, my sister was starting work, and she realized she had two weeks of vacation a year, so she called me and said, 'Go abroad.' So right after my freshman year, I went and I studied in Guatemala, and I studied in Kenya, and I studied in Italy, and it was incredible.

Stephanie Ruhle

I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar.

Mike Figgis

I came from a really musical family. I studied classical piano because my grandparents were piano teachers, but started doing musical theater at age nine in Fresno, California, and went to a performing arts high school. That was my life.

Audra McDonald

I wasn't even a theater kid in high school. I studied classical piano, and I ran track.

Condola Rashad

I was trained in classical piano, but it kind of dawned on me that classical pianists compete for six job openings a year, and the rest of us get to play 'Blue Moon' in a hotel lobby.

Barbara Kingsolver

I'd studied piano first and switched over to cello when I was about seven. I played mostly chamber and solo classical music. I got really involved with rock music when I was a teenager. I wired up my cello.

Tod Machover

I'm a pianist - I studied jazz piano in college.

Cory Michael Smith

I graduated with a B.A. from Goddard College in 1991 and then studied poetry for a year in the M.F.A. in Writing Program at Vermont College.

Jennifer McMahon

My grandmother was a classical pianist, so I grew up with Schubert, Mozart, Beethoven. I studied piano as a kid. My musical background and upbringing was very much a mix.

Phillipa Soo

I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.

Lev Grossman

There was a piano in my house, and my brother had taken lessons when I was a kid. I don't remember this, but my mom told me she came home one day and I had learned everything he had studied for a year, and I was playing it on the piano.

Amber Rubarth

I never had any social life, just played the piano and studied, studied, studied.

Imogen Heap

I started piano lessons at age six but didn't take music seriously until I was a teenager, when I thought about a career in music. I studied classical music, and my instruments were guitar and piano. I played keyboards in bands, and after high school I went to Vienna to study at the Academy of Music. I also became a session player, which culminated in my work with Tangerine Dream.