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After a couple years of occasional lessons with Pass I moved to Boston to attend the New England Conservatory.

I started piano lessons when I was four; I was being classically trained at the Colburn School.

I grew up studying music. I went to conservatory.

I went to the Guilford School of Music and Drama, which was affiliated with the Royal Shakespeare Company. I was lucky enough to be taught by a beautiful, wonderful teacher called Patsy Rodenberg, who works a lot with the Royal Shakespeare Company as a voice coach and technician.

I started piano when I was four. My mom taught me. And then I went to Manhattan School of Music during high school, like every Saturday. And then I went to Berklee for college, in Boston.

I started in theatre. I went to the Boston Conservatory and majored in musical theater.

I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.

I went to national piano competitions and did that whole circuit. Then I played professionally to support myself when I moved out to LA.

I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif.