It seems hard to imagine, but my Carnegie Hall solo debut recital is now a little over four months away.  Hard to imagine because it was more than fifteen months ago that I learned the date had been confirmed, and that seems like it was just yesterday.

As we come to the end of 2025 I want to thank each of you for all you have done to make this one of the best and most exciting years of my life.  Your visits to my website, attendance at my concerts, and reading my blog posts have meant more to me than you know, and have helped me to grow as a musician, artist, and person.

Happy New Year!

Have you ever noticed how clothing can just make you feel better?  I don’t mean feel better in the same way you do when you are getting over a cold or an allergy attack.  It’s more of a psychological feeling you get when you sense that what you are wearing is helping you to express more of what is going on inside your mind and heart, and your mood is being uplifted because when you look in the mirror you like what you see.

Hello, Everyone.  I hope you had a great Christmas.  Even though we are still celebrating what is for some the fifth of the Twelve Days of Christmas (“Five Golden Rings” in case you’re thinking about the song), if you are like me, you are already making plans for the New Year.

As we find ourselves on the verge of another Christmas Season, I would like to thank everyone who  has been coming to my website over the past several months, reading my posts, and visiting my  different social media portals.

In addition to wanting to know about some of the gowns I wear to perform, some of you have been asking about the clothes I wear to practice.  I must confess I do enjoy clothes a lot, as they are not just a form of expression, also, for me, wearable art.

In addition to wanting to know about some of the gowns I wear to perform, some of you have been asking about the clothes I wear to practice.  I must confess I do enjoy clothes a lot, as they are not just a form of expression, also, for me, wearable art.

With Christmas being a week from today, and in case you are interested playing music written  especially for the occasion, certain works continue to remain favorites. Here are some suggestions. 

The Sarabande from Bach’s Partita No. 2. is a deeply intimate and beautiful movement, and one of my favorites within this partita.

Today, December 16th, is the great Beethoven's birthday! I would like to once again express my heartfelt respect and gratitude to him.

Recently I have been deeply inspired by the drawings of Aubrey Beardsley, and I would like to share a thought that arose from this experience.

Today I would like to share some of my thoughts on changing dynamics in the repeated sections of the second movement, Allemande, of this great work.

Today, I would like to share some thoughts about being expressive in Baroque music.

Mr. Cosmo recently emailed me a wonderful video and I thought would make for a good blog post, so I'm sharing it with all of you.

One of the great things about being a musician, and especially a pianist, is that there are always so many wonderful things to discover.  Whether it is related to the history of a work and the period in which it was written, or just learning more about how the composer developed it, there are endless small and wonderful revelations waiting in practically every measure.

During my second lesson with Mr. Cosmo on John Field’s Nocturne No. 5, I was able to refine the added ornaments a great deal more. This post contains the entire nocturne.

As I look at the pianists on the roster for December at Carnegie Hall, it is easy to recognize some very celebrated artists, Randall Atcheson, Seong-Jin Cho, and Lang Lang among them.

With today being Giving Tuesday worldwide, I would like to ask all of you to please consider making a donation to the Alexander & Buono Foundation. 

John Field is known both for originating the nocturne, and for his profound influence on those written by Chopin. This is my first time working on one of his pieces.