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I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.

When I started learning the cello, I fell in love with the instrument because it seemed like a voice - my voice.

I'm interested in directing attention and focus, explored through playing cello.

I decided that I wanted to explore all kinds of music with my cello, not just the Western classical tradition. I just wanted to try and expand my vocabulary and bring that different kind of music to my audience.

We wanted to make a powerful cello sound in order to show to the world the possibilities of the cello and to use it in a different way than the classical way they are used to. We wanted to play something exciting, something crazy, something to draw younger generations to this great instrument.

If we just stick to one kind of music, our creativity is limited. We wanted to extend the audience for the cello, especially the younger people, and to show them how cool and how powerful and how diverse the cello can be.

It is the closest instrument to the human voice, and the things you can do on the cello... there are endless possibilities.

I played cello in my high school orchestra.

I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.