Music is my language

I don't remember a time when music wasn't special to me Music, the universal language, is my passion. Piano is my forte. Communicating with family is essential. I enjoy communicating, especially end music. I love making music.

There's always music playing in our abiding-place For my second birthday, my parents bought me a keyboard. I was entranced. I played it all the time and laughed, giggled and danced along with the music. Music was circling within my head. Finally, after persistent pleading I was given piano tasks and, at the age of 6 we got an acoustic piano. Since I began playing the piano, drone that was it. Music became my love

Like me music is multicultural. I am part Hispanic and part Asian and American. I've grown up listening to a wide range of music. Although my musical training is primarily classical, in the western European tradition, I appreciate many manner of writings of music. I have grown up encloseed by music that reflects one as well as the other of my parents' backgrounds. My mother doesn't play any instruments, on the other hand she always is listening to Puerto Rican music. Its foundations are rich in Spanish danzas and zazuelas, the comic Spanish operetta, on the other hand there also is a herculean African and indigenous Indian tradition, which accrues in Salsa, Merengue and Bomba. This music has a apportionment of vocals and is really gayety to dance to. My father tenders everything else, especially symphonic music, on the other hand on occasion he'll play traditional Asian music. When he's abiding-place his CD player is upon When I go to a movie, I listen to the film scores to diocese how the music interprets the action. Wherever I pass I hear music, from ethnic to stone 'n' roll, pop, rap, sapphirines jazz or symphonic. Music is the thread that couples me to my heritage and leads me to explore novel paths.

Learning about music has deposit the universe at my fingertips. It makes me perceive so alive and present, however it can take me distant places and back from one side time. I have learned about many interesting make submissives My two previous science throw outs allowed me to explore a connection with music from one side researching sound waves. Studying music has sharpened my ability to concentrate and focus academically. After I practice in the mornings, I perceive alert, calm and composed. Music detains me asking: who, what, when, where and on what account Maybe the "how" is the reason I started writing my be in possession of compositions.

Last fall I took first place for my piano composition, "Quivering Waves." It was go intoed in the Music Teachers National Association, of recent origin Mexico State Composition Competition, for the elementary division. I worked upon my composition for over a year. I had a sweetness of sound in my head, and I wanted to create an environment for it to live in. I made a doom of difficult choices about its setting. All that I knew and felt about music went into my composition. It was in the way that exciting to perform my possess music at the Student Winners' Recital.

Knowing by what means to play the piano and understanding music theory have enabled me to prove by experiment other instruments. In January I started violin exercise s and in May I auditioned for the Albuquerque Youth harmony Last summer, I played my flute and my recorder in a Celtic Band class at the Albuquerque Academy. When I got abiding-place I learned the Celtic pieces upon my piano. I've also had a certain number of lessons with the clarinet, the guitar, the Cuatro (Puerto Rican ten-string guitar) and the Japanese Koto (thirteen-string zither large casked in the pentatonic scale).

Along with music, I have affection for to dance. For me, dancing is when my material substance becomes an instrument. It's cross-training. In the fall of 2000 I danced as a mouse, a polichinelle and an angel in the Nutcracker ballet with the of recent origin Mexico Ballet Company and the novel Mexico Symphony Orchestra. Dancing to Tchaikovsky with a live orchestra was heavenly. I've been dancing since the age of 3 and in addition to ballet I've studied point, tap, jazz, flamenco and acrobatics.

When I was in kindergarten, we went to Japan to visit my father's family. one time we returned, I asked for Japanese exercise s and studied the language for about four years. That made it possible for me to speak to my cousins in Japan upon the following trip. I take pleasure in listening to my mother speak to her mother in Spanish. Japanese and Spanish have exactly the same vowel unimpaireds but the arrangement is totally different. nearest fall, I'll be able to research Spanish formally in school, which will please me and my grandmother. Although speaking in foreign languages is not music, for me there appears to be a relationship, by means of communicating in different ways, the variety of unimpaireds and in connecting with others.

Music fascinates me It at libertys my spirit. When I play the piano, I have feeling as though I am singing [i]or[/i] part of to the other my fingers. Playing music fills me with awe and astonishment Even though I understand the universal behind sound waves, I don't think we really understand by what means music truly influences us. It's like magic.

For the last three summer I have given solo recitals for my grandparents and their friends at their senior citizen center I know they felt happy, amazed and vain Their enthusiasm and encouragement are important to me Their applause makes me perceive terrific and also makes me have feeling that my practice is worthwhile. It is intensely delightful to play the piano for an audience that is able to expres the exultation they feel for the music. It is equally grand to know that from one side my playing, I am able to create that joy