 When treating a two millimeter lesion, every pixel of what I'm treating matters. At the PMC Lawson Cancer Center, our true beam linear accelerator allows even the smallest areas to be precisely targeted. Our purpose is saving lives. Pikeville High School senior Ethan Hamilton will be playing with World Stride's honors performance series Symphonic Band in 2023. The prestigious ensemble will be playing two major concerts, one at New York's Carnegie Hall in February and the other at Australia's Sydney Opera House in June. Mountaintop News spoke with Ethan and his band director to hear their thoughts. So Ethan came to me and he had found out about the honors performance series and I know that that is a very prestigious thing and I know some other folks that have done that in the past. It is a wonderful opportunity for students who make it. So he came to me and we had to figure out what he was going to use to audition with and then prepare that and then create a digital recording that he sent in for the audition and it was adjudicated and he was selected among the students that did that. So I think it's a wonderful opportunity, not one that a lot of people have. So I'm very excited that one of my students gets to do that. Anytime a student has a chance to perform in a venue like Carnegie Hall in New York City, that's amazing and that they should absolutely do everything they can to take that opportunity and I'm very excited that he's getting to do it and I wish that everyone could get an opportunity to do that. The one international, I can't even imagine what it would be like to do that and I think it's just incredible. It'll be something that he'll remember for the rest of his life. I always tell my band kids, you stay in band because you never know where it's going to take you to. You never know what opportunities you're going to get and he is about to find that out. The young trombone player will be traveling far and wide to pursue his passion of music. This can be viewed as a once in a lifetime opportunity. I'm pretty proud of myself because it took a lot for me to audition for this but I'm kind of nervous for it too because I've never been that far away from home but I'm still excited for it. I've had a lot of help from private lessons and all that sort of stuff and just good support all the way through. It's a great honor to be able to go there and play with these bands and meet all these people. Reporting for Mountain Top News, I'm Nick Colum.