Music, Music, Music! Drum and Bugle Corps, teaching, conducting, playing basketball, tennis, going to movie, hanging out at the beach, disneyland, talking with my friends, coffee
ooooo too many. Classical-Debussy, Ravel, Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin Wind Ensemble- Grainger, Reed, Shostakovich, Perschetti Percussion- lots of marimba solos, safri duos, africana circle Broadway- RENT, Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserable, Lion King, 42nd Street Drum Corps Jazz- Terry Gibbs, Big Phat Band, Quincy Jones Orchestra, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis J-Pop- Chemistry, Dreams Come True, Orange Range, Hirai Ken, Naotaro Moriyama, Kiroro Alt.- Maroon 5, Life House, Incubus I listen to some hip hop, R&B, pop.
Rent!!, Sleepless in Seattle, You've Got Mail, Catch Me If You Can, Back To The Future, Doraemon movies, the Incredibles, Finding Neemo, Totoro, Kiki's Delivery, Laputa, Naushika
Parents, my older siblings, great friends, all my professors and instructors that impacted me(from my private classical piano teacher, all my college professors, all my drum corps teachers, co-workers, co-players at college and drum corps and more ). Also, Leigh Howard Stevens, Nancy Zeltsman, Mitchell Peters, Safri Duo, Nanae Mimura, Keiko Abe, Christopher Norton, Terry Gibbs and many more professional players that are amazing!