Christmas break is gradually coming to an end. I will be heading back up to school this Saturday. Yesterday I had the opportunity to play in sacrament meeting. My friend - a violin major also at USU - drove down and played with me. We played an arrangement of O Come, O Come Emmanuel. It is a beautiful piece and I believe is also performed by the Piano Guys. It is now one of my favorite pieces because the Spirit is so strong when I play it. I am so grateful for the chance I had to share it with so many people.

Hello friends and family,

I hope everyone is having a wonderful Christmas season. I am now home for the break and it has been so nice! As of right now I am taking a break from piano. Over the last few months I have been dealing with some hand pain. I went to the doctor and everything is fine with my bones and ligaments but the pain still persists. We think it is tendinitis so I am taking a break from piano and wearing a brace to see if the inflammation goes down. I am hoping the pain goes away over the break and I can jump back in to full gear at the start of the semester.

Other than that things are going really well. I have been attending many concerts over the last few weeks. They always have concerts going on up at Utah State and I have also been able to attend some Christmas concerts with my family here in Utah County. Music really does bring people together, especially at this special time of year. I am so grateful for music in my life!!

Thank you so much for all your love and support! I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas!

Love, Brady

I have much exciting news! So I competed last week in the finals for the Utah State Symphony Concerto Competition. I played the very best I could and I got honorable mention! There were 18 people who competed and they chose 6 people to perform and 2 honorable mention. I am so excited I was able get honorable mention. I have been working on my Hungarian Fantasy by Liszt for only about 5 months. I also got honor roll in my juries. Juries are where we play for all of the piano professors and they give us a score on our performance. It is basically a competition against yourself. It has definitely been a great and rewarding semester. I already can't wait for next semester to work even harder.

Thank you so much for all of your support and I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday season!

The semester is coming to an end! It is crazy how fast it has flown by. This last Monday I had the preliminaries for my concerto competition. I played 9 minutes of my concerto. I felt like it was the best I have ever played although I did have a memory slip. I passed and so now I get to play in the finals this coming Saturday. I am very excited! If I win I get to play with the Utah State Symphony in February. I will keep everyone posted on what happens!