Michelle Cann This is Me

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1. 1. Cann Is Leaving Home To Pursue A Dream - from Highlands Today and TBO.com

   www.highlandstoday.com/MGB5GSJ - [Cached]

   Published on: 4/30/2005   Last Visited: 4/30/2005

   Michelle Cann of Avon Park plays the violin, piano and various instruments. She is planning to attend the Cleveland Institute in August.
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   Michelle Cann of Avon Park plays the violin, piano and various instruments. She is planning to attend the Cleveland Institute in August.
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   AVON PARK - For 17-year-old Michelle Cann, playing days are coming to an end. At least with her youth orchestra.
   
   Cann is graduating May 3 from South Florida Community College with a 4.0 grade point average and will begin attending the Cleveland Institute of Music in August. She has been playing the piano and violin since the age of 7 and plans to make a career of what she loves to do.
   
   Cann is a member of the Florida Symphony Youth Orchestra, a group composed of 200 talented student musicians from 60 schools throughout Central Florida.
   
   "It will be a new and exciting place for me to become a serious musician," she said. "Being around people at my level will make me work harder."
   
   At an early age, Cann was unsure if she had the passion to pursue music.
   
   "I was not the type of kid to run and practice on my own," she said."Now music is personal to me. It is like any art, it allows you to be creative."
   
   Cann credits her family, especially her father and older sister, for giving her the drive and desire to become the best musician she could be.