John Beggs

Music Resume

             I am John Beggs from Madison Florida, I am homeschooled and attend a group (Classical Conversations) in Tallahassee. I play piano and bass, and I also sing. Here are some of the things I have done concerning music:

Piano related achievements

• I have taken private lessons off and on for many years and with many different teachers, this includes recitals. Currently I am taking from Beibei Lin who works at VSU.

• I have participated in the World Championship Old-Time Piano Playing Contest three times in 2018, 2022, and 2023 winning 5th, 1st, and 2nd place respectively.

• I have attended Bob Milne’s Ragtime Retreat in Michigan in the years 2017, 2028, 2019, and 2023.

• I have played in three concerts. In the fall of 2022, I shared a concert with trombonist Riley Carr at Advent Christian Village. In the spring of 2023 I played a solo concert in Madison featuring Rhapsody in Blue. Then, this spring I participated in a small concert in Madison with one of my Piano tutors and his friend.

• Over the years, I have been fairly in touch with Community Christian School in Tallahassee. I have attended many of their plays and contributed to three. Last fall, I played the role of Toots Navarre in the show A 1940s Radio Christmas Carol. With this role, I played the accompaniment for the singers and back ground music for the dialogue.

• I have attended Piano and Strings Day at VSU two years playing Rhapsody in Blue and the first movement of the Pathetique Sonata by Beethoven.

• At church, I have played various piano pieces from time to time.

• I have done a handful of gigs at nursing homes, restaurants, retirement communities, parties, and festivals.

• I am a member of a band called The Walk including myself, and two other guys. I often play piano or keyboard in this group. The band has done four gigs so far, and I have played for three of those.

• I have in the past played piano for the Tallahassee Homeschool String Orchestra.

• I attended Interlochen Arts Camp in the summer of 2022, I was in the jazz piano intensive program.

Classical literature I have learned

• Claire De Lune- Debussy

• Rhapsody in Blue- Gershwin

• The Pathetique Sonata No. 8 Op. 13 (still not performance ready in all movements)- Beethoven

• Golliwogs Cakewalk- Debussy

• Prelude in D Minor, from the Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1- Bach