{"id":407,"date":"2010-12-03T16:45:15","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T16:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/?p=407"},"modified":"2014-04-07T07:16:46","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T12:16:46","slug":"plymouth-high-school-welcomes-a-talented-new-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/?p=407","title":{"rendered":"Plymouth High School Welcomes a Talented New Student"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Tiffany Buchanan<\/em><\/p>\n

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Sophomore Matt Scutchfield provides a professional picture taken of himself doing what he loves the most: playing the violin. Photo contributed by: Matt Scutchfield<\/p><\/div>\n

In an attempt to highlight unique students who attend Plymouth High School, each issue of The Pilgrim Perspective dedicates an article featuring a different individual student.<\/p>\n

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A transfer student from LaVille, sophomore Matt Scutchfield is a fairly new face to the halls of PHS.\u00a0 Although he has always lived in the city of Plymouth, he attended LaVille from kindergarten to ninth grade.\u00a0 He explains the reason for changing schools is because there were too many classes cut from their curriculum and he likes the academic challenge here.\u00a0 Despite the unfamiliar environment and the challenges of new encounters, Scutchfield considers coming to a new school one of the most exciting experiences he has had.
\nAfter getting to know Scutchfield, it is no surprise that the single word he would use to describe himself is musical.\u00a0 He is not joking when he explains, \u201cmy whole life is music.\u201d\u00a0 Starting\u00a0 at age three, Scutchfield has learned to play seventeen different instruments.\u00a0 While he obviously loves them all, he considers the violin his favorite to play.\u00a0 With his talent, he has composed one symphony, two capiues, and performs at several different types of musical events including festivals, jams, and an occasional concert.\u00a0 Out of all the genres that he plays, he likes jazz the most because of all the improvising one can do.<\/p>\n

If interested, Scutchfield places live videos of him playing music on YouTube.\u00a0 He explains sometimes the live videos are not planned and are not always perfect, but he feels that when the rest of the musicians and him have the song figured out for the most part, it has a chance of going on there.\u00a0 Usually he only posts the videos if he thinks they are good enough for the world to see.<\/p>\n

Scutchfield describes what sparked such a strong interest in music.\u00a0 He says, \u201cRecently it has been how happy music can make people and how fun it is to play.\u201d\u00a0 While he explains many people have helped him succeed throughout the years, the one person who has been the biggest inspiration to him is a musician named Vassar Celements.<\/p>\n

While most of his life is occupied with instruments, Scutchfield also enjoys various other hobbies in and out of school.\u00a0 Inside the school walls he is a member of Business Professionals of America.\u00a0 He enjoys the club and enthuses, \u201cThe BPA projects I am doing are very exciting!\u201d\u00a0 After the school day Scutchfield enjoys writing and considers becoming an author one of his many life goals for the future.\u00a0 He also is involved in tracing his ancestry using Genealogy.<\/p>\n

When it comes to family, Scutchfield has no siblings, but explains his parents both play a very important role in his life.\u00a0 He tells how they have influenced him in almost all aspects of his life, the most being with music though.
\nAfter writing about Scutchfield, it did not take long to be captivated in all the intriguing facts about him.\u00a0 Hopefully one feels more comfortable to stop him in the halls or chat with him in class and take the chance to learn more about a unique, new student.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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