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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?

Hymns & Dervishes 1

After 11 years of imagining this project, I’m finally in the home-stretch!The music of Gurdjieff/de Hartmann is fascinating, a unique case i

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

e-Competition I - The Yamaha Disklavier Pro Mark IV

This past week, I spent 4 days immersing myself in the latest of young pianistic talent, as well as the latest in piano technology. Each mer

e-Competition II - The Contestants

It was a great week for pianists and piano-lovers in NYC - at Rockefeller University, contestants hoping to compete in the Van Cliburn Compe