“Jack of All Trades” Meet Adam Cooper Kyli Dimmitt, Reporter & Designer “Adam, he’s like a machine sometimes, he just puts it in gear and goes,” Chris Miertschin, music instructor and band director, said. Adam Cooper grew up southwest of Buhler. Cooper went to Buhler grade school and graduated from Buhler High School in 2018. He’s been in band and choir since the fifth grade. While attending Buhler High School, he was involved in pretty much all of the music ensembles he could be in - marching band, choir, jazz band, and Buhler Singers. After graduation he kept that tradition and is currently in many music ensembles offered at Hutchinson Community College. Cooper is currently involved in Jazz Lab Band, Concert Chorale, Wind Symphony, and Pep Band on campus. Cooper claims he has “perfect pitch” and lives up to and proves these claims every day. He could think of a song and just start playing it on his trombone without any piece of music in front of him. He also knows when a song is being played in a different key. “When I was nine years old,” Cooper said, “I had an old clock radio that I had set to a certain station. One day I noticed a song that usually played on it and it sounded a little different. I couldn’t put my finger on what it was at the time but a year or so later, I realized that it was being played in a completely different key signature.” One may think Cooper is majoring in music based on how prodigious he is in the art, how many music classes he’s in and how long he’s been involved with music, but he is actually majoring in Automotive Technology. Cooper really only started becoming interested in cars his senior year of high school. For his senior project he thought he would work on his grandpa’s 1985 GMC pickup. Cooper said, “As I was working on it, I was thinking to myself, ‘I’d like to learn more about this pickup.’” When Cooper started attending HutchCC, his friend who was in the automotive program said to him that it’s a great program and if Cooper was interested in it at all he should go
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▲ Photo by Kyli Dimmitt ▲ Adam Cooper, Buhler, poses outside the Stringer Fine Arts building for a picture in his shop uniform.
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