The music in this film is not the musician's music.
While the young musician is a gifted and talented academic and musician, I made this montage for the purpose of 2 things:
1. to use up the film in my camera
2. to help motivate him to practice and see what he looked like when practicing. This is always important for performers of all types in my opinion. Self awareness is key.
so, we used a mirror that day as well.
He was at that awkard age. Today, a scholarship recipient in a major university, he still plays his cello, still competes, and studies engineering, and I believe he even has students!
What a nephew!
That winter day, he did not fidget once during his practice and tuning despite all the distractions, flashes, music playing in the background and all the things that make a kid lose concentration.

He is a very special young lad with a great heart.

He has a story to tell. he is a survivor. He is socially adept, an academic genius, a musical prodigy, has overcome many odds, and his story is one of many possibly, yet he could tell it to you and make you smile for days.
the fantasy behind my clip is that as we transition through the clip in his musical world we see images of buildings in his world, his state, then we move on to Nyc
there we see another musician. He could be thinking outside his bubble now of a young woman muscician across the country playing her violin in the park
do they know one another? will they?
you decide.
I am so thankful and proud of this clip -- it is NOT as simple as you think if you really know who and what is behind it.
ask me more.