Anything That Slaps

This week's interview subject is Gabriel Hightower. Gabriel started playing the cello at the age of nine. He studied with Dr. Ben Myers at Howard Community College. He was invited to attend the Sphinx Performance Academy at Northwestern University where he worked on cello performance with Dr. Mary Ann Ramos and chamber performance with Karlos Rodriguez of the Catalyst Quartet. He has played in master classes led by Amit Peled, Norman Fischer, and The Harlem String Quartet. Mr. Hightower is a recent graduate of the University of Maryland, College Park and studied cello performance with Dr. Eric Kutz. He is currently in his second year of grad school at Carnegie Mellon University where he studies with Anne Martindale Williams.