Van Tant is a Senior at Bearden High School and dual-enrolled at Lincoln Memorial University, where he studies Gross Anatomy and Psychology, visiting LMU’s Anatomy lab to study cadavers each week. Van has been a cellist with the KYSO for 4 years and in the KYSO Chamber program for 2 years. He has been studying with Dr. Wesley Baldwin for the past 2 years. He plans to go to East Tennessee State University to major in Biology with a Biomedical Sciences concentration and minor in music.