IN HIGH SCHOOL, Hannah Murphy wasn’t much different from other teenagers. She played electric guitar while listening to CDs of pop-punk bands — Green Day, Weezer and Blink-182 were her favorites. But there was another side to her, one that involved playing nylon-string guitar to classical pieces by composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach and Béla Bartók. Before long, it became her true passion.
“I liked playing electric, but I felt more of a bond with the nylon-string guitar,” Murphy says. “And I truly connected to classical music. Maybe it’s because I’m kind of introverted. There’s such intimacy in playing classical music by yourself. I could lose myself in it.”
