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

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

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

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

While attending the Van Cliburn Competition last week (another blog entry later!), there was a symposium on the topic of diplomacy and the a