<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/2026-08-21/magazine/spring-2023/how-software-career-led-conservatory.html" dsn="news"><pubDate/><title>How a Software Career Led to a Conservatory</title><excerpt>A cellist who won the Music Guild Instrumental Competition, Tim Beccue ’18 has always been passionate about music. He enjoyed playing in the Westmont Orchestra for four years, but he majored in physics with a minor in mathematics. “I wasn’t committed to the idea of a professional cello career at the time, and I figured it was better for me to study physics with music on the side than vice-versa.”</excerpt><author/><image>
            
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