Amy Reinink

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Northwest High SchoolOscar José Machado Morón’s grandmother signed him up to study at a music conservatory in his native Venezuela when he was 4 years old. After a year of music education and theory, students were released “like chickens in a coop” to run around the conservatory and choose an instrument, Oscar recalls. The rooms with pianos, violins and clarinets were “packed to the brim [with students], so I had to go downstairs, where I heard someone playing the bassoon. I liked it.