Jeremy Lamb, Cello

What was your musical upbringing like?

When I was very young my dad had a record player, and every night after dinner he would select a record from his extensive classical music library and listen to it through. I only saw him in the evenings since he was at work all day, so I started joining him in his quiet listening session, first as a bonding thing, but then because I really started loving the music. I would help him pick out the record selection for the evening, at first just from the record cover art (I was only five, afterall), but then I just wanted to hear Beethoven, especially the piano sonatas and concertos. I stopped waiting for the evenings to come and put the records on in the afternoons too. It was the first movement of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata that really grabbed me, and I asked my mother to help me learn to play it on her upright piano. After a year, I had it memorized and played it for my 1st grade class, and from then on I was a total classical music addict. I switched to cello until 9th grade though, so my early start on piano only helped me indirectly in my