姓名: RobSelznick 英文名:- 性别:男 国籍:- 出生地:- 语言:- 生日:- 星座:- 身高:- 体重:-
Rob Selznick Bio :
From the earliest age, I was moved by music. It seemed pure magic to me. You couldn’t see it, you couldn’t touch it, but it made you feel all the colors and emotions of the rainbow: happy, sad, excitement, love. It was almost like love itself, connected with love somehow. Something that connected the physical and spiritual, at a depth that made the world itself seem in harmony and beautiful. That was the world I wanted to be a part of, and create, to weave and share with others. Nothing seemed more beautiful, or more worthwhile as a path in life.
My musical aspirations made themselves known pretty early on, maybe first when my parents found me in front of the speakers trying to conduct a Beethoven symphony at age 5, arms waving wildly. I loved to sit at the family piano, trying to pick out the melodies I was hearing in my head. And as the melodies and ideas grew into pieces, it became my dream in life to be able to manifest, and play this music I was hearing. I’ve been following that dream all my life. It’s been a very rich path, maybe like chasing rainbows, but actually finding some gold… after digging a bit.
Classical music was always playing in the house I grew up in outside San Francisco, California. Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms and Wagner were always there. I was born into a musical family. There were accomplished musicians on both sides, and my parents encouraged my musical development, starting me on private piano lessons at the age of 7.
To be honest, I can’t say I had any love for the discipline of practicing classical music at that age. I tried everything I could to get it out of the way quickly so I could return to playing my own ideas. And that worked for awhile. My ideas grew and so did my ability to play them. But it got harder, and harder, and eventually after running up against creative walls, I was forced to embrace serious studying if I was to expand my ideas and move forward.
Those studies took me to many teachers and classrooms. Some were formal, like San Francisco State University where I studied classical piano privately with Dutch concert pianist Herman Vanderkamp, and received my B.A. degree in composition and music theory.