Valdez High School senior, Christopher Cummins, leaves Valdez on Wednesday on an adventure not many have the talent—or the nerve—to claim. But this one is on Chris’s bucket list. After a long weekend at the ASAA State Nordic Ski Championships, Christopher and his tuba, Archibald, are heading to New York City for an audition at the Juilliard School of Music.
Christopher’s quest for a Juilliard education began in November on paper, but actually many more years ago as a piano student of ling-time teacher, Bonnie Thiel. Christopher began piano lessons then started in the Hermon Hutchens band. He eventually mastered flute, tuba, saxophone, handbells,