Piano with Lane H.

I am a professional keyboard player with experience playing in a variety of ensembles. I learned to play piano by ear, and have a rich background in gospel music. Over the years, I have been privileged to learn from and play with talented musicians in many environments, including churches, studios, and college ensembles, as well as gigging regularly with the band every weekend in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama. I play piano, Hammond organ, and keyboard instruments of many different genres including Rhodes, Clavinet, and synthesizers. I have always had a very open mind concerning music, and this has allowed me to explore a variety of styles, including jazz, gospel, country, funk, reggae, and classical. I have attended East Central Community College in Decatur, MS for the past four semesters studying classical piano, and have ambitions to study jazz at a university in the fall. I have always felt that understanding music theory is the best foundation to learning music. If you understand how music works, you can not only play what the greats before us have, but you can use those skills to create new music. In the last few years I have also gained an appreciation for classical repertoire, and how the popular music of today evolved from it.