This 16-year-old found out he's soloing with the Utah Symphony while playing a video game

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Wyatt Christensen, 16, will perform George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" with the Utah Symphony on Wednesday.

He is one of seven young musicians in the 65th annual Salute to Youth concert.

Christensen's musical journey began at age 7 with his family's influence and piano lessons.

SALT LAKE CITY — It used to pretty much be a guarantee that if Wyatt Christensen was on a bike ride, he was listening to one song on repeat: George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue."

The teenager, who started taking piano lessons when he was 7, listened to a lot of renditions of the Jazz Age piece. He especially loved the Leonard Bernstein recording.

After roughly two years of consuming "Rhapsody in Blue," Christensen, who studies with Koji Attwood and Vera Oussets