My educational goal is to become a choir director. Doing this would allow me to use music every day, which is very appealing to me because I would be doing what I love. I love music for many reasons, and I would enjoy directing a choir because I like the idea of passing on that love to as many people as possible. I am inspired by my high school choir director Gordy Moeller. He loves to teach people about the art of music, and he inspires students to be leaders in everything that they do. I hope to do this some day as a choir …show more content…
My family is very musical, and as a young child I was always surrounded with music of all shapes and sizes. My grandpa owned a music store until he retired when I was twelve years old. The music store had a profound impact on my life. I remember spending many hours in the store just listening to all the music coming from practice rooms and the radio. I also took guitar, piano, mandolin, and banjo lessons at the store. In recent years I have continued to show my love of music in every aspect of my life. I have been to Florida with the jazz choir twice, and I also do many solo performances. I won the grand champion award at the state fair for my solo, and guitar performance of a song that I wrote, and have won my local 4H best performance award for 7 years in a row. I also won my school talent show, got forty out of forty at solo and ensemble, and have received many other musical