{"id":5076,"date":"2017-01-10T10:40:52","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T15:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/?p=5076"},"modified":"2017-09-08T09:37:34","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T13:37:34","slug":"left-brain-right-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/2017\/01\/left-brain-right-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"Left Brain Right Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5648\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 310px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/2017\/01\/left-brain-right-brain\/winners-with-full-piano-img_9211_with_bg\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5648\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5648 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Winners-with-full-piano-IMG_9211_with_BG-300x295.jpg\" alt=\"WSE students Stephanie Cai and Winston Wu won the Hopkins Symphony Orchestra concerto competition\" width=\"300\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Winners-with-full-piano-IMG_9211_with_BG-300x295.jpg 300w, https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Winners-with-full-piano-IMG_9211_with_BG-768x756.jpg 768w, https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Winners-with-full-piano-IMG_9211_with_BG-1024x1007.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">PHOTO: DAVID FRIEDLANDER\/HOPKINS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Two Whiting School students, both pianists, were among three winners of last spring\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/studentaffairs.jhu.edu\/hso\/\">Hopkins Symphony Orchestra<\/a> concerto competition.<\/p>\n<p>Created by Johns Hopkins alumnus Hernan del Aguila, A&amp;S \u201908, to encourage musicians who are not music majors to continue to study and perform, the competition afforded winners the chance to play with the Hopkins Symphony Orchestra during its season finale.<\/p>\n<p>Stephanie Cai, a junior majoring in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bme.jhu.edu\/\">biomedical engineering<\/a> who started playing the piano when she was 4, performed the first movement of Chopin\u2019s Piano Concerto No. 2. Winston Wu, a second-year PhD student in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.jhu.edu\/\">computer science <\/a>with a passion for computational linguistics, performed movements three and four of Liszt\u2019s Piano Concerto No. 1.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have always loved the hard sciences, but I also love being creative through music,\u201d says Cai, who grew up in Portland, Oregon, and studied at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.juilliard.edu\/school\/preparatory-education\/pre-college-division\/pre-college\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Juilliard School\u2019s Pre-College Division<\/a> while she was in high school. \u201cThey seem to use completely different parts of me that really blend well together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wu, a graduate of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utexas.edu\/\">University of Texas at Austin<\/a> who double majored in computer science and Latin with a minor in piano, says music is his relaxation. \u201cWhen I\u2019m stressed, I sit down to play and just let everything go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite incredibly impressive musical credentials\u2014both have won numerous competitions and studied with some of the finest teachers in the country\u2014they insist music is an avocation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlaying the piano is my hobby; computer science is my career,\u201d says Wu, who is working on getting computers to understand and translate languages.<\/p>\n<p>And Cai is working this year with a team of four other undergraduates on a device to improve corneal surgery outcomes, an idea they hope to present this spring at the Department of Biomedical Engineering\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/cbid.bme.jhu.edu\/\">Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design<\/a>\u2019s Design Day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re all really excited about the chance to create something that might really make a difference,\u201d she says. But she also looks forward to decompressing at the end of the day in one of the Mattin Center\u2019s practice rooms. \u201cThese two parts of me complement one another in a most satisfying way.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Whiting School students, both pianists, were among three winners of last spring\u2019s Hopkins Symphony Orchestra concerto competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[119,121,716,720,724,728,732],"class_list":["post-5076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-students","tag-department-of-computer-science","tag-department-of-biomedical-engineering","tag-stephanie-cai","tag-winston-wu","tag-hopkins-symphony-orchestra","tag-hopkins-symphony-orchestra-concerto-competition","tag-hernan-del-aguila","issue-winter-2017"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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