Turtle Creek Chorale Moves Forward with Positive Attitude

A+C: What is your musical background?

Trey Jacobs: Music has always been a part of my life. My Mother told a story of me as a baby, sitting content in my swing for hours while the radio played. I sang in children’s choirs at church from pre-school through elementary school. When I was 6 years old, I began studying piano. I would fantasize for hours about being a concert pianist and would pretend to play on the taped number line on my school desk! I continued with piano lessons until I was in the 4th grade. As most kids do, I lost interest, and didn’t want to practice, so I quit and my parents sold our piano.

A sort of funny sidebar here, our piano was a huge upright, “no name” brand piano that had been refinished, and I am sure that my Dad found it for a steal. The piano stool was the old circular stool that would raise and lower by turning the seat around and around. I remember that it had claw feet and I hated it! I was such a little tike, and the piano and stool seemed so large and assuming.