The Balance of Life VS Music

Sitting behind her music stand, silence fills the air as she prepares to play. The first notes of the song hit the air, first soft then crescendoing, eventually filling up the house. As she plays she sways with the beat making a flow to the music. As she is ending the song, her eyes show the passion she has for music.

Rachel Egan has known music for most of her life, having grown up as the youngest of five in a music loving family. All of her older siblings learned to play a different instrument when they were a child, and this was the same for Rachel. She started playing the alto saxophone when she was very young, then progressed on to the baritone saxophone for her high school band. Having the same band teacher throughout middle school and high school has also helped Rachel with her musical success.

Having watched and heard most of her siblings place in the state musical competitions for both instrumental as well as voice, Rachel wanted the same thing. Rachel accomplished this goal and placed 2nd in state for saxophone solo. A part from music Rachel is a member of The National Honors Society.

Rachel describes her passion for music as "I love music because it is raw expression of the soul and feeling. Also, it is a language that anyone in the world can understand."
Outside of music and school, Rachel spends her time volunteering in a woodwind quintet along with acting as the president of her church youth group. On top of all of these things that Rachel does she finds time to travel. Rachel states "I have traveled all over the world. I have been to Mexico, all across Europe, and Cambodia."

When Rachel is not practicing the saxophone, doing her duties as youth group president, or traveling the world, she enjoys just hanging out with her friends and watching Disney movies.

In the fall Rachel will be attending Brigham Young University Provo and majoring in either saxophone performance or music education. After school she says,  "I will hopefully be married and working either as a music teacher or playing saxophone professionally. I possibly might have a Master's Degree in saxophone performance at that point."