Instead, my early passion for composing was the driving force in my decision to be a professional musician, and the pianist part just came naturally with that. JR: Actually, although most people find this difficult to believe, there was never a time where I decided I wanted to become a pianist.
PPM: How did you decide to become a pianist? I glanced up, said, “sure,” and went back to building my Lego masterpiece… I was playing with Legos when my mom came in my room and asked if I wanted to start learning the piano. We were so far out that we couldn’t even get cable TV… so I’d rock climb, write music, practice, and have a lot of time to myself. When they decided to start a family, they wanted to move out of the city. My backyard was literally the Joshua Tree National Park (it was designated as a national monument at the time), and the town’s total population was less than 3,000, with quite an expanse between neighbors and, even more so, other young people my age.
Jarrod Radnich (JR): I grew-up in the artistic and eclectic desert town of Joshua Tree in Southern California, just north of Palm Springs. Piano Performer Magazine (PPM): Please, tell our readers a little bit about yourself. All that inspired me to reach out to Jarrod Radnich for an interview. A creative talent not so common in the piano world. To me, this 34-year-old Southern Californian embodied an epitome of a true performer who not only engages the audio senses of a listener, but also brings so much more in delivering a rich multi-sensory experience of piano performance for a diverse audience. At the end of the performance, the boy exclaimed, “Did you see that!?” I must admit: that 12-year-old boy passed his excitement to me, and once I had a minute to sit down quietly at my desk, I watched all Jarrod’s YouTube videos…. As Jarrod was playing, I watched the 12-year-old boy’s eyes filled with amazement and awe. I was introduced to the talent of Jarrod Radnich (MGBH) by one of my friends’ children who came over to me and, with intriguing excitement in his eyes, asked, “Would you like to see something cool?” He opened his laptop and showed me a video of Jarrod Radnich’s arrangement performance of “The Pirates of the Caribbeans” theme.
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