Three Years Studying Music and Already Playing with Grammy Winner

7-year-old Shipley School student Aidan Peterson was invited recently onstage to play with 2013 Grammy Award winner Chris Botti at the Sands Event Center in Bethlehem.

Since the age of 4 Aidan has admired Botti and wanted to play the trumpet, said Aidan's mother Amy Shumoski.

The first grader, a music student at Harcum College Music School, played with Botti on Sunday, March 3. It was the second time Botti has honored him, the previous time being at the Keswick Theatre in Glenside in 2011.

"Aidan absolutely loves music," Shumoski said. Aidan has been taking drum lessons since he was four-years-old and trumpet lessons since he was five; he started cello lessons at Shipley last year.

He has performed at Milkboy in Ardmore, PA with the Shipley Chamber Music Group, and has been asked to play at Dunwoody Village in Newtown Square later this month as part of their entertainment.