This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Hamilton chapter.
Name: Ben Barzilai
1) What year are you?
– Junior
2) What is your major?
– I’m a music major with a sociology and computer science
double minor.
3) What instrument do you play?
– I play the piano.
4) When did you start playing?
– I started playing piano when I was 7 years old.
5) What was it like playing in the SPAC coffeehouse?
– It was awesome! Everyone was both overwhelmingly talented and incredibly supportive of all the other performers.
It was a great and humbling evening.
6) What is your favorite genre to play?
– My favorite genre to play is Jazz.
7) If you could play at any venue where would it be?
– The Iridium. It’s a small legendary music club in New York City. I used to intern there so to get to perform
there would be a nice little circle of life moment.
8) If you could learn to play any other instrument what would it be?
-The guitar. If you’re reading this and you want to teach me, please come find me!
9) How many hours a week do you practice?
– One. Which is bad.
10) Do you think you’ll continue to perform after college?
If you think I know what I plan to do after college then you haven’t met a lot of music majors.