UWF student shares tale of teacher's impact
- March 28, 2014
- / Ron Stallcup
- / community-dashboard
James Buttatoven Matthews is a UWF music student who will play Carnegie Hall on April 20.
Matthews, a native of Lakeland, is a junior music performance major in piano and a recipient of a Music Talent Scholarship. He was chosen as an American Protégé International Piano & Strings Competition 2014 Honorable Mention Winner and will perform in the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York.
His hometown paper, The Lakeland Ledger, did a great story about James' journey from homelessness to one the greatest stages in American arts, thanks in great part to the heart of one of his teachers, Robert MacDonad, the former head of the music department at Florida Southern College. MacDonald died Sept. 7 at age 83.
In the Ledger’s story, his widow Ingrid, says stories of the impact her husband had on his students, including Matthews, touch her heart.
“Isn’t it wonderful?” she says. “If you have done that in your life, then your life has a purpose.”
Read the story here and learn how lucky we are to have young man as talented as Matthews among us at UWF.
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