Charlotte Kies
If you ask DC’s Charlotte Kies what she does now, she’d tell you she’s a software developer. But for the first few decades of her life, the answer — a professional clarinetist and university-level music educator — was very different.
Kies had always been a clarinetist, she said, and made music part of her life from childhood as her parents were professional musicians and professors. Intent on having a career that wouldn’t involve a 9-5 format, she decide to pursue music and received bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees in clarinet performance.
“[Music] was my personality, it was my lifestyle,” Kies told Technical.ly. “It was everything I did. I woke up and I breathed music, that was just what I did.”
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