About Tavia Lynn Kallison I began piano lessons at age 6 with a very disciplined schedule: one hour a day, seven days a week, including all holidays and birthdays! At age 14, I began teaching my younger sister who was then 7 years old. She had asked our mother if she could begin piano lessons, I became her teacher and soon after that other mothers in the neighborhood called up to have their children take lessons, as well. My parents offered me a savings account for the money I earned. It was a modest amount of money earned, but whatever money I would deposit in a bank account, they would match that sum. It taught me to save money and eventually it paid for a trip to Hawaii for the summer, through U.C.L.A.'s summer school in Hawaii. Eventually, I became serious about studying the piano. Through my music store, he had recommended Edith Knox, as the best teacher in the city at that time. Miss Knox was a graduate of the famed Julliard school of music in N.Y.. While Miss Knox was
