Guy Benian has had twin passions—science and music—throughout his life. He is Professor of Pathology, and Cell Biology at Emory University. His laboratory is internationally recognized for gaining new insights into the assembly and maintenance of muscle by exploiting the model organism, C. elegans, a small roundworm (!). These studies are driven by curiosity about how things work, but also have implications for human diseases, such as cardiomyopathies and muscular dystrophies. He very much enjoys teaching graduate students and medical students, and working with junior scientists in his lab, including postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and from time to time, undergrads and even high school students. His lab uses the methods of genetics, cell biology and some biochemistry, but his lab also enjoys collaborating with biophysicists and biomedical engineers. Guy began studying the piano at age 5, and from 13-17 years old studied piano with concert pianist and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, Mark Wessel. For the following 9 years, he put piano aside, and played the cello and enjoyed performing in various school and community orchestras. He gravitated back to the piano and enjoyed accompanying others. Within a couple of years of arriving at Emory in 1986, he began studying piano again with Emory music department faculty, Deborah Thoreson Slover, and more recently, William Ransom, and has learned a tremendous amount from these wonderful teachers and superb musicians. He gives several informal performances per year, combining solo pieces with accompanying singers or instrumentalists that are also usually students or faculty associated with Emory.