{"id":13,"date":"2024-10-15T13:03:48","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T12:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/arts-scholarships\/?p=13"},"modified":"2024-10-15T13:03:48","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T12:03:48","slug":"from-church-organ-to-jazz-piano-my-arts-scholarship-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/arts-scholarships\/2024\/10\/15\/from-church-organ-to-jazz-piano-my-arts-scholarship-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"From Church Organ to Jazz Piano: My Arts Scholarship Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"elementtoproof\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;color: black\">Since the church organ\u2019s my main instrument, I was pleasantly surprised when I heard I had received the scholarship for my second discipline of jazz piano. Although I\u2019d already had lessons for one year at school, I was still new to it and the upcoming galas were quite something for me to work towards.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;color: black\">Just before my first gala in December, we\u2019d been on an away day to the American Museum \u2013 an excellent opportunity for me to view the artistic exhibitions in light of the upcoming performance. In fact, that was a recurring theme of the whole programme \u2013 even though everyone else was talented in completely different forms, it gave me motivation and inspiration for my unique ideas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;color: black\">The final gala in March has got to be the highlight of the programme. Since I\u2019d never played jazz completely on my own until that point (other than the gala the previous December), I was so nervous for it. A lot of this was because I just tended to repeat the same ideas during practice. Therefore, in the run-up to it, I listened to so many solos from the great Oscar Peterson to hype myself up and come up with inspiration, which certainly paid off! It resulted in probably (and luckily), the best performance of my set I\u2019d ever done, and I couldn\u2019t be more grateful for the turnout that day, especially from the wonderful donors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"elementtoproof\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;color: black\">Needless to say, I\u2019m incredibly thankful for the whole programme, just as much for the events throughout the year as me now being able to invest in lessons over the summer, and I\u2019m super excited to see what the other scholars get up to beyond the programme.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_25\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-25 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/arts-scholarships\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2024\/10\/Sam-horton-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Student sitting at a piano\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/arts-scholarships\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2024\/10\/Sam-horton-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/arts-scholarships\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2024\/10\/Sam-horton-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/arts-scholarships\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2024\/10\/Sam-horton-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/arts-scholarships\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2024\/10\/Sam-horton-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/arts-scholarships\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2024\/10\/Sam-horton-287x215.jpg 287w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/arts-scholarships\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2024\/10\/Sam-horton.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sam Horton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the church organ\u2019s my main instrument, I was pleasantly surprised when I heard I had received the scholarship for my second discipline of jazz piano. 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