9IÖĆ×÷ł§Ăâ·Ń News - Sean Sutherland /channels/news_feeds/all/term/Sean%20Sutherland/rss en Forget Chopsticks; Amateur Pianists Show Real Chops /channels/news/forget-chopsticks-amateur-pianists-show-real-chops-261581 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>But some competitors don’t follow the pattern. Semifinalist Sean Sutherland, 39, grew up in St. Vincent and The Grenadines, and he fell in love with the piano early on. By the time he was fifteen, however, he had exhausted the piano teaching resources available on St. Vincent. He kept up his musical activities by becoming the arranger and manager for a “boy band” (one of his bandmates was Kevin Lyttle, now a highly successful pop singer). After a three-year lapse in his piano study, Sutherland enrolled at MIT, receiving degrees in music and electrical engineering/computer science.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">30 </span><span class="month">June </span><span class="year">2016</span></div></div></div></div></div> Thu, 30 Jun 2016 14:14:07 +0000 webfull 119713 at /channels