Robin Jupiter

I started playing piano around age 5. I basically taught myself how to play, but over the years, went through a variety of different teachers, becoming flexible and building my skills and repertoire nicely bit by bit. I had an early interest in singing and being an entertainer at a very young age, but it was when I was 10 years old and heard the Beatles for the very first time, I became increasingly intent on being a rock pianist, so I doubled my practice time, and when I was 12, I developed an interest in playing alto saxophone as a result of a suggestion from my old recorder teacher (who eventually became my saxophone teacher for 8 years) and immediately picked it up. Somehow I totally lost interest in singing and did not pick it up again until a year or so after I hit puberty. I played my first real show at Manhattan's Pizza and Jazz Club in Guelph in May 2005 when I was pianist in Brent Rowan's Centre Wellington Jazz Youth Ensemble. Encouraged and inspired by all the positive responses in my recitals and constant impromptu sessions before and since then, I became more and more intensely interested in being an entertainer again. Around the time I was 16 or 17, I would occasionally sing in public to my friends just for fun, but surprisingly, I received very positive feedback from them, and it encouraged me to get back into singing again. So over the period of the past few of years, I worked tremendously hard on improving my voice and combining it with my intense piano playing and my hyperactive stage persona, and now after bringing all that together, and still positively developing, I feel more and more ready to take on the challenges as they approach day by day...