Introduce Yourselves to the Guild

[Blushing Seraph]

um... hi im nightpriestess11
but u can call me cece
i like listening to mozart, bach, vivaldi, and dvorak
i have a lot of free time after classes so i play a lot of instruments
the 3 im best at r the violin, cello, and piano
um, yea thxs 4 reading this!  

[goh4]

This's my 6th year playing the flute (:
I'm starting piano lessons soon, so I have more opportunities as a musician when I'm older (:
I joined the local orchestra as soon as I was old enough, and this's my 3rd year playing with them (:
I absolutely love listening to classical music, and my all-time favourite piece is Pachelbel's Canon heart
Bill Whelan's Firedance is a close second, though (:  

[babbs302]

I'm going into my sixth year playing trombone. I'm in my high school's symphonic band (it's my schools version of an "honor band" and have been since freshmen year smile . I've been principle since freshmen year also (trombones aren't that popular I guess) I love the instrument and have played in many ensembles outside of school including the Rhode Island Philharmonic Youth Wind Ensemble (RIPYWE) which is the youth version of the RI Philharmonic Orchestra (only in a wind ensemble of course) and the Mass Southeastern All District Band. I love my instrument and work very hard on it. I also love all forms of classical and tend to have songs I have played that I liked in the past on my IPod. Long Live Classical!  

[[neon.zombie]]

Hi there, I'm [neon.zombie] (although any variation on that is fine, heh) and I'm a bit of a choral geek. I'm a first year Music/Arts student at university, studying Performance Voice (classical) and German. My real passion lies in choral music - currently my choir (the national secondary students' choir) has finished for the season, so I'm focusing on my beginner's conducting course at the university. Exciting stuff!

I really enjoy listening to almost anything, be it Samuel Barber or Bullet For My Valentine. As I'm not an instrumentalist, I really don't know where to start with most classical music that's not for voice, although I really love listening to it. So my goal for the coming years, I suppose, is to learn more about the history of music and finally get into all of that Mozart, Bach, Wagner, Beethoven, etc...

~Z
 

[Mistress of Tarts]

Yo, I'm Rachelle. I'm a classical singer and in a few too many choirs. Although I'm a "classical" singer, I participate in plays and musicals. I'ma theater geek. But that's not what I'm here for... (:
babbs302 (Brandon razz ) showed me pretty much everything I know about classical music. I don't know much, but I still enjoy listening to it (on repeat) and talking about it. People call me a geek even though I don't play an instrument...YET!! I'm in the process of convincing my grandparents to let me learn to French Horn. razz ANYWAY...random rant thing = over. Bye razz  

[DieF1228]

Àlö! My name is Alexander (Alex) Heinz Wolfgang Reinhardt. I am a proud Austrian composer living in the United States! I have joined this guild with wishes to find people that, to be blunt, are "just like me". I say this because of the fact that I do not quite "fit in" with other 16/17 year olds in my community...You see, my love for the Classical repetoire has somehwhat excluded me from the "normal" social class of teenagers. My interests include writing orchestral music (although my pieces need MUCH work), playing my violin, piano, listening to and studying the many different forms of some of the famous 17-20th Century composers. As you can see, this (along with enjoying Chai tea as my favorite drink) is somewhat "unnatural" behaviour for a 16 year old (or so say my peers)...Therefore! I wish to find solace within this lovely guild. Please add me as a friend, for my old account is nonexistant! My new account is lacking friends... crying  

[Gamexrocks]

Hello everyone!
I recently just joined and I'll like to introduce myself. My name is gamexrocks, I'm currently a first year in University in Engineer. I'm a proud Asian who plays my beautiful Violin for about 6 years now.

The reason why I'm here is to make friends and just for general talk. Who's your favorite composer, what type of songs do you like to play, etc.

It's a pleasure.  

[crimsonshiori]

Hey, I'm crimsonshiori. =)
I have been playing the flute for 5 years (since I was in 4th grade) and I love it. My absolutely favorite composer is Chopin. I could listen to his Nocturne No.2 Op. 9 all day. heart  

[OceaNova]

I'm Parker, pianist for 16 years but still learning =)
I also play guitar, bass, er-hu, and other percussion instruments (not as much as I should!).
For some reason, I find my favourite classical artists are neo/contemporary artists like Nobuo Uematsu, Yann Tiersen, Philip Glass, Emilie Autumn, and so forth. But gotta love the Bach, Scott Joplin and Tchaikovsky =)  

[Kelsianna]

Hi, I'm Kelsianna, and I'm 15 years old (16 in two weeks). I've only been playing piano for a year, but I love it. heart

Favorite Composers: Nobuo Uematsu, Masashi Hamauzu, Frederic Chopin  

[InketyDink]

I'm Charlotte and I'm a Mezzo-Soprano soloist. I'm 18 and things are really kicking off for me this year, with lots of stuff happening musically for me to be excited about ^^
I'm a part of my county youth choir, we went to Belgium last June and I sang a soprano solo in the mass in Mechelen Cathedral.
Tomorrow I start at a weekend music school at the Sage Gateshead (an amazing concert hall in the North East of England).
I'm still at school (I retook a year after changing schools and finding they didn't have the courses I was studying previously :c) and am studying Music, French and Psychology.
I've been in my church choir since I was 10.
I've been doing solos for even longer heart
I want to be an opera singer eventually and can't wait to find out what my voice will sound like in 10 years time : D
I also teach beginner piano at a local rockschool.

...aha, got a bit carried away there I think ^^; But anyway, It's nice to meet you all!  

[Consider_this_deleted]

Hi everyone! biggrin My name is Justin and I play piano, organ, synthesizer, some harmonica, and I sing. I'm 16 years old and I have gone to train with college professors in Warrensburg College (one of the best colleges in the state of Missouri). I have gone to district and state competitions for singing in ensembles, piano solos, and accompaning other ensembles and have gotten top scores on all. I have also been in all-district choir, which requires you to be in the top 200 singers in the state out of about 1200 that try out. (The choir director there was a jerk and I hated it crying ). I play at talent shows and recitals as well. Unfortunately my school is a sports based school (all about the football evil ) so there are only about 5 music classes over all. Two bands (can't play piano in either of them), a music appreciation class (taken it and it's music history about people like Elvis, The Beatles etc.), and two choir classes. I am in honors choir (the better one) and I am the section leader for the tenors. We go to district and state competitions as well and it is a BLAST! blaugh I have many favorite classical musicians but my favorite piano song to play and listen to is Franz Liszt's Etude (Un Sospiro). If anyone hasn't heard it and loves beautiful piano music, look it up, it is the most beautiful piano piece I have ever heard and played in my life.  

[InketyDink]

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Hi everyone! biggrin My name is Justin and I play piano, organ, synthesizer, some harmonica, and I sing. I'm 16 years old and I have gone to train with college professors in Warrensburg College (one of the best colleges in the state of Missouri). I have gone to district and state competitions for singing in ensembles, piano solos, and accompaning other ensembles and have gotten top scores on all. I have also been in all-district choir, which requires you to be in the top 200 singers in the state out of about 1200 that try out. (The choir director there was a jerk and I hated it crying ). I play at talent shows and recitals as well. Unfortunately my school is a sports based school (all about the football evil ) so there are only about 5 music classes over all. Two bands (can't play piano in either of them), a music appreciation class (taken it and it's music history about people like Elvis, The Beatles etc.), and two choir classes. I am in honors choir (the better one) and I am the section leader for the tenors. We go to district and state competitions as well and it is a BLAST! blaugh I have many favorite classical musicians but my favorite piano song to play and listen to is Franz Liszt's Etude (Un Sospiro). If anyone hasn't heard it and loves beautiful piano music, look it up, it is the most beautiful piano piece I have ever heard and played in my life.

Wow! I wish I could play organ, it looks so fun. I'm not really a fan of Liszt but that's pretty nice.
Welcome to the guild, hope you enjoy it here 4laugh  

[Nymphonia]

Hi, I'm Rachy smile

I've been classical singing (soprano) for twelve years now and I am about to head off to university to study Music with voice as my principal study. My favourite composers to sing are Handel and Mozart, I enjoy bright coloratura and Baroque and Classical arias more than heavier Romantic pieces. I also enjoy choral singing, I was in the Birmingham Symphony Chorus until leaving for uni, and I have a choral scholarship starting now.

To listen to, I enjoy pretty much everything, all genres of music, but especially Baroque and Classical music, and post-World War II choral music. I like dubstep and drum and bass, and have recently been getting into other electronic genres as well. I also like progressive rock and metal (Tool is my favourite band), and folk music. I will listen to anything and everything!  

[Meeatu]

Hey, I'm Jake.
I'm first and foremost a composer for a variety of musical genres.

I have a passion for any music that is musically complex (not necisarily in terms of the performers vertuousity, but the interplay of the sepperate parts to creat a whole).

This has lead me to much of 20th Century classical music, Art music, Free Jazz, Some of the more technical subgenres of heavy metal, some of the more progressive funk, and more self-indulgent fusion bands.

As part of progressing my skills in composition, I've picked up elementary abilities on a large number of instruments, including vocals, guitar, bass, drums, piano and harmonica. I can generally pick up and produce something semi-coherent with any string instrument, and most percussive instruments, though as of yet, I've not breached anywhere near as far into brass or woodwind as I would like. I intend to learn as many instruments as I can in my lifetime, even if that means I do not get to master any. I find it incredibly entertaining, and amazingly profitable in terms of my understanding of that instruments abilities or role, as well as a much deeper respect for musicians that play those instruments.

Baritone sax, Violin and Udu are next on my list :]

I'm a big fan or rhythm, much more so than melody or harmony. Which is one of the reasons that I've liked atonal music from a young age, as well as a reason why the drums were the instrument I picked up the fastest. I love musicians and composers who play hundreds of intertwinning rhythms.