Friends, Activity Partners

Aug 2003

Tempe, Arizona and Washington, DC

I have worked as a sales clerk at Tower Records and as a pianist at Nordstrom's Department Store.

http://profiles.friendster.com/1383244

Oberlin College, Field School (high school in Washington, DC)

student at Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA

playing classical and jazz piano, listening to music, going to museums, watching movies, hiking, walking, talking, eating Middle Eastern food, and of course, positive chaos!

Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow, Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie, Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, The Witches, George's Marvelous Medicine, and Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl, The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White, Illness as Metaphor by Susan Sontag, Great Contemporary Pianists Speak for Themselves by Elyse Mach

Notes on a Scandal, The Queen, Transamerica, Downfall, Ray, Anchorman, Hotel Rwanda, In America, Goodbye Lenin, Fahrenheit 9/11, Intimate Strangers, Mystic River, The Pianist, The Hours, Talk to Her, Rivers and Tides, Pollock, 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould, Amadeus, Mahler, The Music Man, The Rutles, Parenthood, All of Me, Annie Hall, Radio Days, Play It Again Sam, Trading Places, The Daytrippers, Waiting for Guffman, Flirting with Disaster, A Night at the Opera, Young Frankenstein, My Cousin Vinny, Beetlejuice, Ghostbusters, Life of Brian, Return of the Pink Panther, Election, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, What's Up Doc?, Romancing the Stone, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, The Wrong Trousers, Arsenic and Old Lace, Bringing Up Baby, The Hospital, My Left Foot, Sophie's Choice, Elizabeth, Hud, Rosemary's Baby, The Conversation, Rebecca, M, Wild Strawberries, Persona, Walkabout, The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Dresser, The Elephant Man, Body Heat, All the President's Men, Casablanca

I mainly listen to classical and jazz, but I also like some classic rock, bluegrass, and world music. My favorite classical artists include: Sviatolsav Richter, Martha Argerich, Vladimir Horowitz, Clara Haskil, Helene Grimaud, Mitsuko Uchida, Alfred Brendel, Evgeny Kissin, Glenn Gould, Artur Rubinstein, Katia and Marielle Labeque, Itzhak Perlman, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Hilary Hahn, Jascha Heifetz, Jacqueline du Pre, Yo-Yo Ma, Leonard Bernstein, Kathleen Battle, Maria Callas, Cecilia Bartoli, Barbara Hendricks, and Susan Graham. My favorite jazz artists include: Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum, Dave McKenna, Judy Carmichael, Fats Waller, Dick Wellstood, Nat King Cole, Ralph Sutton, Bill Evans, Ray Brown, Niels Pedersen, Ella Fitzgerald, Anita O'Day, Billie Holiday, Susannah McCorkle, Joe Williams, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Joe Venuti, Shirley Scott, Clark Terry, Stan Getz, Eddie Lockjaw Davis, Zoot Sims, Dave Lambert, Jon Hendricks, and Annie Ross

Favorite music continued: Other favorite artists include: Ray Charles, Beatles, Janis Joplin, Elton John, Randy Newman, Norah Jones, Carole King, Leon Russell, Patsy Cline, Judy Collins, Vassar Clements, Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs, Ricky Skaggs, Chuck Berry, Tom Lehrer, Victor Borge, Lyle Lovett, Lila Downs, and Ladysmith Black Mambazo.

Pisces

I'm a happy person. I enjoy interacting with people by providing them with positive feedback and humor. I have played piano for about 21 years. I love playing solo piano as well as jamming with other musicians.
I am currently studying music education at the Berklee College of Music. I hope to teach elementary school music as well as continue teaching private piano lessons. I would also love to work in radio or tv broadcasting, as I love the idea of hosting a classical/jazz music show or a talk show. (While I was a student at Oberlin College, I hosted a classical radio show which was extremely fun!)
I really enjoy traveling. I've gotten to spend time in Spain, Mexico, Germany, Italy, England, and Australia. I'd love to travel back to some of those countries and explore new ones.

I'd enjoy meeting anyone with interests in music, arts, film and the like. I always enjoy friendly, interesting people who are fun to hang out with!