Trained since age four as a classical cellist, She moved to the United States in 2007 to attend Interlochen Center for the Arts, whose alumni include Norah Jones, Rufus Wainwright, and Josh Groban.
Bachelor of Arts | World Trade Center | center | Master of Arts (postgraduate) | National Endowment for the Arts | Master of Arts | American Academy of Arts and Sciences | Electronic Arts | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | Kennedy Space Center | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences | Walker Art Center | Tisch School of the Arts | mixed martial arts | Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars | Institute of Contemporary Arts | École des Beaux-Arts | California Institute of the Arts | Marshall Space Flight Center | Rockefeller Center | Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center | Goddard Space Flight Center | British Academy of Film and Television Arts | École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts | University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna | Museum of Fine Arts, Houston | martial arts | Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts | Academy of Fine Arts | Georgia World Congress Center |
In the United States he has worked in music festivals at Aspen, Interlochen, Musicorda, Idyllwild, and in New York.
He grew up in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan and attended Interlochen Arts Academy, an independent high school dedicated to the arts in Interlochen, Michigan.
In 1936, Giddings left for Michigan to organize Interlochen Music College (now known as Interlochen Center for the Arts) in Interlochen, Michigan.