Justin Berry Woodwind Studio Music Lessons

Congratulations to my middle school students that participated in the Wake County Auditions this year! Everyone worked very hard and learned about setting short and long term goals in addition to what it is like to perform under pressureJ

The following students deserve special recognition. Go kids!

Aayan 9th Flute
Ryan 5th Clarinet
Jack 2nd Alto Sax
Blake 4th Alto Sax
Noah 1st Bass Clarinet
Ashley 2nd Bass Clarinet

2 0f the best saxophone players I worked with in Tucson had careers in other fields in addition to music- and both had personalized license plates. I tell my talented music students that are conflicted about wanting to study non-musical disciplines in college that they can still be very good musicians while working as doctors, lawyers, scientists, etc- and I use these guys as an example. The first, had a license plate that read “SAXNBAX”- chiropractor Gary Love. The other had a license plate that read “SAXNTAX”- accountant Kevin Shumaker.

I’ve puzzled for years about how I could join their ranks, but nothing in Speech Pathology rhymes with Sax in any meaningful way. After over a decade of pondering, I finally realized that I was thinking about it all wrong. I need to make Sax rhyme with the “P” in SLP. My plates arrived today:)