Music

From the time I was in kindergarten, I had played the piano.  It was a big part of my life back then and is a big part of my life now.  After the summer of 1996, I had to take a year off for rehab.  When I returned to my lessons, we had to figure out how I could play with only partial use of my left hand.  Most one-hand repertoire is for left hand because a pianist's right hand is most often the one to get injured.  But, in my case, I lost my left hand.  Together, we figured out pieces that I would be able to play with only one finger in the left hand part.  Most of the pieces were simple pieces with only one note in the left hand at a time.  Pieces such as Canon in D by Pachalbel were the majority of my repertoire.  Until my eighth grad year when I started to discover all of the world of piano music more fully.  I wanted to start playing more complex pieces.  I remember starting to learn Hungarian Rhapsodie #2 by Liszt.  For some parts of the piece, I had to play both parts with my right hand.  In most cases I had to transpose the left hand part up to the right hand range.  I would play only important notes in the left hand and all of the other notes with my right hand.  Eventually, I got really good at picking out what to play with which hand.  I started to love the instrument.
By the time I was a freshman in High school, I was playing pieces like Rachmaninoff Prelude in C, transcribed for right handed piano.
For reference, here are the two pieces, I've mentioned so far.

Pachalbel Canon in D

Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodie #2

Rachmaninoff Prelude in C sharp minor.

My senior year in high school I decided to pursue a career in music.  I wanted to compose for a living.  By the time I was a senior in high school, I had already composed ten pieces.  As I began to study music in college, I began to love it even more.  By the time I was in college, I was playing pieces like Moussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" for right handed piano.  My professors in college thought it would be best if I completely omitted my left hand from the piece entirely.  I refused and continued to play with two hands.
I complied sort of and began to play simpler pieces, such as Chopin's prelude in c minor.

Chopin Prelude in C minor Op.23 #20

Once out of College, I started to play more complicated pieces again.  Now, most of my time is devoted to composing.  Here is a piece that I composed.  I'm also performing it in this video.

Sonata in C

Here is another one that I composed, but I am not the one playing it here.

Frantic.