Missouri Classical Music News

Tauscher, 17, began playing the piano when he was 3 and started lessons in third grade. His parents, David Tauscher and Pei-In Yang, encouraged his interest in the piano. Both teach music.

By the time he started high school at Shawnee Mission East, Tauscher enjoyed the long hours of practice his instrument required.

He’d won some competitions and “everything sounded better, everything felt better.”

“It’s my life. It just felt right.”

Now he practices five or six hours daily, and sometimes more, which is why he’s a homeschooled junior.

He studies piano with Jack Winerock at the University of Kansas, and hopes to attend KU, majoring in piano performance.