Regina Arriola, originally from Michigan, has been playing classical piano for 16 years. She completed all 12 levels of the Michigan Music Teachers Association Student Achievement Testing, where she mastered performance, theory, technique, sight-reading, and aural awareness skills. She performed in the Ann Arbor Community Keys project where she played painted pianos at the Ann Arbor Farmers Market and the U-M Shapiro Library to activate the local community through art and music. She has also played in a band which covered popular Filipino songs, also known as Original Pinoy Music (OPM). She sees music as a platform for expression and connection.
