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Feel free to email me directly with any questions or special requests that you may have. Browse the current selection of music, articles, audio and information about me and my work using the links on the left navigator. Enjoy!

I'm constantly ruminating on matters musical, as for example a recent one highlighted here:

Scriabin Piano Sonate Fantasy Op. 19 (Sonate No. 2), 1892-1897

In the many years of studying and performing piano works from the Baroque to the 20th Century, I have never encountered a piece as simultaneously tortuous and glorious as the Presto (2nd and last movement) of Scriabin's Piano Sonate Fantasy (1892-1897).  If ever there were a work that could be described as requiring (and resulting in) "Blood, Sweat and Tears", it is surely this piece.  If this were a work without  ... read more from this diary entry here ...

 

I'm currently working on the following projects. More details are coming soon and will be published on the Projects subdomain. 

Pieces from a Distant Land, Series I for Piano
Moment Pieces for Extended Piano
Embroidery of Imagination for Orchestra
Conversion of older analog recordings to digital format
Studio recordings: currently recording works of Bach, Mendelssohn, Lopez and Brahms
Engraving older manuscripts in digital format (using Finale)
Preparing for next piano concert to include works of Schubert, Debussy, Scriabin, Lopez and Villa-Lobos.
(and of course maintaining my web sites and publishing new content - stay tuned ... )

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