Our featured students in our Student Spotlight for February are Falcon and Chris O'Donnell!
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Falcon is 17 years old and plays piano, french horn, guitar, trombone, clarinet, and does voice. She has been taking lessons at Matt's for around nine years. Her favorite genre of music is electro swing.
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One of her recent musical accomplishments was being able to play one of her favorite songs, Almost There, while singing. Falcon has always wanted to combine her love for different instruments and her voice in various ways.
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"[My role is] not just learn the melody, sing the melody, and that's it. But you really have to think like a musician and open your ears to what's happening around you so that you can contribute to it and interact with it." - Samara Joy
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Congratulations, Falcon!
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Our featured students in our Student Spotlight for February are Falcon and Chris O'Donnell!
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Chris is 67 years old and has been taking guitar and voice lessons at Matt's for almost 3 years. He loves all music genres!
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Chris is an insurance consultant for Alterity (NFP/Aon), having worked in the insurance and banking world for way too many years.
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His music involvement has mostly been bringing his kids to music lessons over the years. Work always got in the way of pursuing and actually participating, until he accidentally discovered Mr. Rich's Adult band while bringing Flacon too early for a "Week of Rock" Saturday practice. He saw the adults and older teens rehearsing for "Matt's Music Adult Band." That's when he asked Mr. Rich about it and began lessons.
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"Been a blast playing with Mr. Rich and bandmates (including my youngest daughter Falcon) in the MMAB and WOR events since 2022, including Porchfest." - Chris
"Music has always lifted my spirits. Playing music exercises my mind and feeds my soul." - Chris
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Congratulations, Chris!