 My name is Leonard Weas, I graduated from the ANU in 2013 with a Bachelor of Music and I'm a National Caribbeanist. I recently came back from performing in the United States for a week as part of a tour with the Guild of Caribbeaners of North America and as part of the tour I performed at Princeton University and Valley Forge. Performing in the US was a fantastic challenge because you sit down at each new instrument and you get about 20 or 30 minutes to get used to the instrument so for one of the instruments I played the pedals were further to the right than I was used to. On another instrument the pedals were closer together and the feeling is very different. The weight of the hammers and the bells and the octave of the bells is always different for different instruments and it's a great opportunity getting used to different instruments and having that sort of fly by the seat of your pants experience. There are a few really great things about playing in the Caribbean. The first one is physically it's a very responsive instrument so you can give a lot into the keyboard and the mechanics and it will respond with a sound and it's very nuanced in the reply that you can get. And the second thing is it's such a great location, such a great audience, everyone can hear you play and it gives such great opportunities in performing within Australia and performing overseas. Certainly not many people graduate on Caribbean from universities. I know that since my graduation there's been a stronger connection between the National Capital Authority and the ANU so we have a few younger students at the ANU who are still studying and progressing to become Koreanists so it's really fantastic that the ANU is being able to build up that profile in offering Korean intuition.