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Beethoven/Liszt Symphonies are Coming! - Liner Notes

Beethoven's most popular Symphonies transcribed for solo piano by Franz Liszt, performed by pianist Frederic Chiu

Hymns & Dervishes: Music of Gurdjieff/De Hartmann - Liner Notes

George Ivanovich Gurdjieff was a Greek-Armenian mystic who was active the early 20th century. He was widely known as a spiritual teacher and

Distant Voices: Piano Music of Debussy and Gao Ping - Liner Notes

The opportunity create the first YEG Classical piano album, exploiting the possibilities of the new DCFX Concert Grand with Disklavier inspi

Hymns & Dervishes, Moving Forward

After almost a year, I'm finally able to move forward on this project. After waiting for 12 years, what's another year, right?

Teachers Conferences

This month, it has been my great joy to be the conference artist at two State Music Teachers conferences - Iowa and Pennsylvania.

Abbey Simon on the Yamaha CFX

Some notes as I listened to my former teacher, Abbey Simon, play a rare concert in an intimate setting, on an incredibly beautiful CFX Yamah

Quick reflections on Richter

Writing the following to a friend who is reading a new, soon to be released biography on Richter, I thought that perhaps it was worth puttin

Junior Academy 2010

The Icelandic volcano was cooperative enough to allow me to spend 5 days in Utrecht, Holland to work with the Junior Academy of the Utrecht

WIPAC - Amateur Competition

One of my activities this summer was a visit to our nation's capitol, mixing business and pleasure. Over a hot summer weekend, while the

Van Cliburn Competition, in Sao Paulo

It was a fortuitous meeting at a private home after a concert (Josh played with orchestra, and I was not part of the concert that night). Th