I started playing the violin at the age of four. In fact, my parents enrolled me in a Suzuki violin summer camp to try to get me to stop talking about the violin. I kept saying that I already played the violin, so they signed me up for the camp so that it could become true, and maybe also in the hope that I would lose interest in the instrument and they would never have to hear about it again. Their strategy did not quite work, and almost twenty years later, here we are.

Learning music gave me a true method for learning — a way of structuring my efforts that I now recognize in my study of law.

I’ve been drawn to music for as long as I can remember—and my parents noticed early on. At five, I began early music classes, then studied xylophone, and later explored instruments like violin and piano. (Read more)