Chelsey Padilla is currently a senior studying piano under Laurel Yost at Montana State University in Bozeman. She began taking fiddle lessons when she was four years old and began studying piano when she was five years old. She was involved in fiddle contests throughout her childhood but began focusing on piano in high school. She participated in choir and orchestra throughout high school and college and is the co-concertmaster of the MSU Symphony Orchestra. She was the 2006 Montana State University Concerto Competition winner, the 2007 collegiate winner of the Montana MTNA Piano Competition, and the 2009 College Division winner of the Montana Association of Symphony Orchestras.