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Kelly began to play the violin at age 8, and something magical happened! She took five years of Suzuki classical lessons before moving on to standard violin lessons, and she still continues her classical training. She has been concermaster and/or principal cellist in her youth orchestras for the past 5 years. At age 10 she began to play fiddle tunes. Shortly after that, she began to be fascinated by all other instruments as well. In addition to violin, she plays cello and flute (in orchestras or bands) piano, tenor banjo (in the Next Generation Banjo Band), and also plays penny whistle, low whistle, mountain dulcimer, and even some clarinet. And, when her cousin Ben decided he would play dulcimer, she decided she would too -- and she became an awesome player on that as well! Can you tell her proud mom wrote this? :-) Kelly loves to compose music of all kinds, and she is really fond of teaching music (she has several violin students plus she volunteers to help assist at several younger kid orchestras). She was also the winner of the 2007 AND 2008 Michigan State Championship Old Time Fiddlers contest. She hopes to attend U of M someday, and major in either violin performance or music education.
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