Complex sentence: Peralta was a piano player and composer devoted to music from a very young age, starting piano lessons at the age of six and eventually studying with Eleanor Lindboe, Sara Banta at Pepperdine University, the noted jazz pianist Alan Pasqua and saxophonist Buddy Collette.
Split into simpler sentences: Peralta was a piano player and composer devoted to music from a young age. Peralta started piano lessons at the age of six and eventually studied with Eleanor Lindboe, Sara Banta at Pepperdine University, the noted jazz pianist Alan Pasqua and saxophonist Buddy Collette.