Career Highlights
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Selected Performances:
Oct. 10 (Dallas, TX): Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing Arts, Lecture-Recital, masterclass
Oct. 11 (Dallas, TX): Richardson Music Teachers Assoc. lecture recital
Oct. 14, 2024 (Seattle, WA): Bainbridge Island MTA, Lecture - recital, masterclasses
Jan. 18/19, 2024 (Phoenix, AZ)Arizona State University, Lecture Recital, Judge for Concerto Competition,
Jan. 20, 2024 (Tucson, AZ): University of Arizona, Lecture Recital, masterclass
Feb. 2, 2024 (Los Angeles, CA): USC, Lecture recital
Feb. 2, 2024 (Los Angeles, CA): UCLA Lecture recital
Feb. 3 (Los Angeles, CA): Colburn School Lecture-recital, “Debussy in Paris 1900: Painters, Poets, Clowns, and other Inspirations,” Masterclass
Feb. 15- March 21 (Zoom): Juilliard Extension Division, “The Political Pianist,”
March 5, 2024 (Annandale-on-Hudson): Bard College, Lecture Recital, “Debussy in Paris: Poets, Politics, and the Piano Intertwined
March 31, 2024 (Appleton, WI): Faculty Recital, Lawrence University, “Vienna, City of Music”
Apr. 14 (Milwaukee, WI): Milwaukee Area Piano Teachers Assoc, Lecture-Recital, “Thoughts on Technique”
June 12, 2024 (New York, NY): Winterreise performance with tenor, Steven Spears, 92 Street Y
May 28, June 4, June 11 (Zoom): 92nd Str Y, Roundtable Course, “Schubert’s Journey”
June 27/28 (Villeblevin, France): France Summer Music, Guest Faculty, performance and masterclass
July 2-14 (Acqui Terme, Italy): Interharmony International Music Festival, Piano Faculty, duo piano, solo piano, and chamber performances, masterclass, lessons
Oct 9 (Zoom): Dallas Piano Teachers, Lecture Recital, “Vienna: The City, its Music, and its Politics”
Oct. 11. (Appleton, WI): Fox Valley Music Teachers Assoc.
Nov. 16, 2024 (Appleton, WI): Performance with Lawrence Symphony Orchestra, Mozart Concerto No. 27 in Bb Major, K. 595
Nov. 27, 2024 (Vienna, Austria): Vienna IES, Lecture-Recital
Nov. 29, 2024 (Vienna, Austria): Relais de la Memoire, Recital, “Musical Vienna Across the Centuries”
Dec. 2024/Jan. 2025: Book Review of “The Pedagogical Writings of Marguerite Long A Reassessment of Her Impact on the French School of Piano,” by John Ellis; (Indiana University Press, American Music Teacher)
Jan. 21-23, 2025 (Iowa City, IA): University of Iowa, Residency with performance and masterclass
Jan. 22, 2025 (Cedar Rapids, IA): Recital
Jan. 26, 2025 (Ann Arbor, MI): University of MI, Lecture-Recital “The Preludes of Claude Debussy”
Jan. 27, 2025 (Zoom): Eastern Seattle MTA, Lecture recital
Feb. 10, 2025 (Appleton, WI): Faculty Chamber Music Recital, Lawrence University
March 24-29, 2025 (Seattle, WA): Seattle Young Artists Music Festival, Judge
Apr. 1, 2025: University of WA, Lecture-Recital
Apr. 7 (Appleton, WI): Faculty Cello/Piano Recital, with Kivie Cahn-Lipman, Cello, Lawrence University
Apr. 10, Apr. 17, Apr. 24, May 1, 2025 (Zoom): Juilliard Extension Division course ”Vienna: Intersections of Music, Politics, and Society”
Apr. 26, 2025 (Portage, WI): Violin/Piano recital
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Selected Performances:
Interharmony International Music Festival, Acqui Terme, Italy, Faculty Concerts
The Village Trip, “Village Voices,” New York, NY. Performance
Booker T Washington H.S. for the Performing Arts, Dallas, TX – recital, masterclass
Faculty Chamber Concerts, Lawrence University
Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ, Lecture-recital and concerto competition judge
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ Lecture Recital and Masterclass
USC, Los Angeles, CA Lecture Recital
Colburn School, Los Angeles, CA Piano masterclass
Courses taught:
Studio piano and chamber music, Lawrence University
Debussy in Paris, Roundtable 92nd Str. Y, New York, NY
The Political Pianist, Juilliard School, Extension, New York, NY
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Selected Performances and Festivals:
Interharmony International Music Festival, Acqui Terme, Italy, Faculty Concerts
Saarburg International Music, Saarburg, Germany, Faculty Concerts
The Village Trip, “Village Voices,” New York, NY.
Weill Hall, Carnegie Hall, New York, NY Interharmony Showcase Concerts: Chamber Music performance
University of MI, Ann Arbor, MI, U of MI, Collaborative Recital Feb. 8, 2023, Faculty Recital with Taide Prieto, LU
NYU, New York, NY. Piano Masterclass
Maison Française, NYU. New York, NY lecture recital, “Debussy: His Writers, Painters and Dancers”
MTNA (Music Teachers National Association) National Conference lecture-recital, Reno, Nevada, Music, Dreams and Mystics: Connections Explored
Guest Seminar, Juilliard School, New York, NY. “Debussy in Paris”
University of Wyoming Laramie, WY—Guest Residency: Masterclass, Lecture, Piano Recital
Lawrence University Faculty Recital, May 11, 2023
NCKP (National Conference of Keyboard Pedagogy)—Chair, Online Panel “Perspectives on Practicing”
NCKP Conference Session Lecture Recital, Chicago, IL “Three Women from Chicago”
Courses Taught:
Great Piano Works Explained”—24 video set of lecture recitals for Wondrium/Great Courses. Completed in summer, 2022 and released in October, 2022.
Studio piano and chamber music, Lawrence University
Musicale—Lecture recital video, Teaching the Piano works of Robert Schumann (for distribution on Musicale website)
Sept. 29-Oct. 20, 2022, Roundtable 92nd Str. Y, New York, NY: Piano Dreams: Music in fin-de-siècle Paris and Vienna, Weekly 90 minute Zoom class
Nov. 3-Dec. 18, 2022 Juilliard School Extension Division, New York, NY Debussy: Postcards from Paris, Weekly two-hour Zoom class
Jan. 3-March 16, Lawrence University, Literature of the Piano, English Virginalists to Chopin
March 23-May 4, 2023 Juilliard School Extension Division, New York, NY Live from the Piano: Bach to Bernstein (and beyond) Weekly two-hour Zoom class
June 14-June 28 2023 Roundtable 92nd Str. Y, New York, NY: Finding Beethoven the Hero, Weekly 90 minute Zoom class
June 14-June 28 2023 Roundtable 92nd Str. Y, New York, NY: Schoenberg, Freud, and Schnitzler, Jewish in Vienna, 1923 Zoom class
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Sept. 26, Lawrence Chamber Music Faculty Recital
Oct. 25, St. Louis Piano Teachers Association, Lecture Recital
Oct. 25, St. Louis recital
Nov. 4, Madison Recital
Nov. 10, Lawrence Faculty Recital
Nov. 12, Montgomery County (Suburban Wash DC) Music Teachers Association lecture recital
Nov. 25-29, Residency, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile—recital, masterclasses, lectures
Feb. 12, Mannes School of Music, lecture -recital
March 1, Cello/Piano Faculty Recital, Works of Beethoven, Debussy, Piazolla. Lawrence University
March 18, Juilliard School, lecture-recital (canceled)
March 21, MTNA National Conference. Featured speaker, Pedagogy Saturday: Living Happily in Muddy Waters (canceled)
March 23, MTNA, Du holde Kunst: Three Music Programs in Prisons (canceled)
Apr. 12, Debussy at 2 Pianos, Faculty Recital, Lawrence University (canceled)
Apr. 24, “Teaching Debussy: A Gateway to Story-telling and Imaginative Listening” WMTA, Washington, DC (canceled)
May 23-25, Debussy recital, masterclass, lessons, Palm Springs, CA (canceled)
May 27-28, Coach, Piano Arts Competition, Milwaukee, WI (canceled)
May 30, Judge, Musical Merit Competition, San Diego, CA (canceled)
June 30-July 12, Faculty, Interharmony Music Festival, Acqui Terme, Italy (canceled)
July 20-Aug. 3, Saarburg International Music Festival, Saarburg, Germany (canceled)
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Sept. 30, Recital at University of Evansville, Sunday, 3:00 pm, Evansville, IN, Krannert Fine Arts Building, Wheeler Concert Hall, University of Evansville Campus, 1800 Lincoln Ave, Evansville, IN
Oct. 1, Lecture-Recital—University of Evansville, Monday, 11:00 AM, Evansville, IN
Oct. 13, Masterclass for Madison Area Music Educators (MAME), Saturday 6:00 pm, Steinway and Sons, 6629 Mineral Point Rd, Madison, WI 53705.
Oct. 21, Recital—NSMTA, 2:30 pm, 13 Old Barn Rd, Hawthorne Wood, IL
Oct. 22, Lecture-Recital – NSMTA, 11:00 AM, 1200 Hibbard Rd, Wilmette, IL 60091
Oct. 27, Recital, 6:30 pm, Lawrence University Memorial Chapel
Nov. 30, Recital – Capital Lakes, 7:00 pm, 333 W Main St Madison, WI 53703.
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The Marin County branch of the Music Teachers’ Association of California hosted a number of events in December:
Dec. 7 and Dec. 8, Recitals, 7:30 pm, 385 San Marin Dr. Novato, CA 94945
Dec. 9, Lecture Recital, 2:00 pm, JB Piano 540 Irwin Str., San Rafael, CA
Dec. 9, Masterclass, 3:00 pm, JB Piano 540 Irwin Str., San Rafael, CA
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Piano residency, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
Jan. 25, Recital— Friday, 5:30PM
Jan. 26, Symposium, (morning session: Debussy in Paris, afternoon session: WWI in music)
Jan. 28, Master class, Monday at 1:25-3:00PM
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Feb. 27-28, New School for Music Study, Princeton, N.J. Recital, masterclass, lecture.
March 1, Piano Teachers Forum, New Jersey Piano Teachers
March 15, Interharmony Concert, Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, New York
May 8, Recital with Horacio Contreras, Violoncello, 8:00 pm, Lawrence University, Harper Hall
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Sept. 3, Chazen Museum, Madison, WI with Wen-Lei Gu, Brahms: Complete Sonatas for Violin and Piano
Sept. 22, Krakow, Poland Lawyers Club, solo recital
Oct. 19, Book event celebrating the publication of Debussy’s Paris, Piano Portraits of the Belle Époque, Mystery to Me, Madison, WI
Oct. 20, Presenter, Wisconsin Music Teachers Assoc, Annual Conference, Madison, WI
Nov. 12, Irvington, N.Y., Winterreise by Franz Schubert, With Steven Spears, tenor
Jan. 8, Book Launch, Heid Music Company, Appleton, WI
Jan. 23, Performance on RadioTelevison Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Jan. 23-26, Artist in residence, Chinese International School, Hong Kong
Jan. 28/29, Lessons, masterclasses at Ho Chi Minh City Conservatory of Music, Vietnam
Jan. 30, Masterclass at Hanoi National Conservatory of Music, Vietnam
Feb. 18, Lawrence Chamber Players, Brahms Piano Quartet in A Major, Lawrence University Memorial Chapel, Appleton, WI
Feb. 19-21, Adjucator for United States Open Music Competition, Oakland, CA
March 12, Book Launch Left Bank Books, St. Louis, MO
March 13, Benefit for Music for Food, New York City, private home,
March 14, Lecture Recital, Bard College Conservatory of Music, Annandale on Hudson, N.Y.
Bard College Conservatory, Annandale on Hudson, N.Y.
Làszioó Z. Bitó ’60 Conservatory Bldg.
Wednesday, March 14, 7pm
Lecture recital: Debussy’s Paris: Piano Portraits of the Belle ÉpoqueMarch 18, Presenter, Music Teachers National Assoc. Annual Conference, Orlando, Florida
April 11-15, Residency, San Francisco
Wednesday, April 11 at 7pm
Florey’s Book Co.
2120 Palmetto Ave.
Pacifica, CA 94044
(650) 355-8811
FloreysBookCo@yahoo.comThursday, April 12 at 7pm
405 Shrader (both series name and address)
405 Shrader St.
San Francisco, CA 94117
405Shrader@gmail.com
Reservations RequiredSaturday, April 14 at 4:30pm
Comfy Concert – Berkeley
1044 Keith Ave, Berkeley 94708
Reservations RequiredSunday, April 15 at 2:00pm
Comfy Concert – Pacifica
272 Gateway Drive, Pacifica 94044
Reservations RequiredApril 26, Edgewood Engaged “Intersections”: A Research and Creative Inquiry Symposium, Keynote by Catherine Kautsky: “Debussy and His Friends: An evening of French music, poetry, art, and politics”, Edgewood College, Madison, WI
Reception: Stream Atrium Gallery – 5:30-6:00 pm
Lecture Recital: Anderson Auditorium, Predolin Hall – 6:15-7:30 pmMay 30, Speech coach for Piano Arts Competition, Milwaukee, WI
Spring, 2018, Wisconsin Public Radio, Wisconsin Public Television performance
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Nov. 7, 7:30 pm Weidner Center, UW-Green Bay, recital with Wen-Lei Gu, violin
Nov, 21, 22, 23 Wisconsin Public Radio, 12-1:00 pm. “The Midday.” The complete Brahms Violin Sonatas with Wen-Lei Gu, violin
Jan. 15, 5:00 pm, Lawrence University Faculty Recital, Lawrence Chapel, Appleton, WI
Jan. 21, 4 pm, Farley’s House of Pianos, Salon Series, 6522 Seybold Road, Madison WI
Feb. 17, 6:30 pm Lawrence Faculty Recital with Steven Spears, tenor, Schubert “Die Schöne Mullerin,” Lawrence Memorial Chapel.
March 18-22, MTNA National Conference Presenter
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China: The Complete Brahms Sonatas for Violin and Piano
December 8, 8:00pm
South China Normal University, School of Music, Concert Hall
College Town, Guangzhou, Guangdong.
Address: 广州市番禺区外环西路December 10, 7:30pm
Xinghai Conservatory of Music, Chamber Concert Hall
College Town, Guangzhou, Guangdong.
Address: 广州市番禺区外环西路
Dec. 11 Masterclasses Xinghai Conservatoryof MusicDecember 14, 7:30pm
Shenzhen Arts School, Concert Hall
Shenzhen, China
Address:深圳市福田区百花二路16号
Dec. 14 Masterclasses: Shenzhen Arts SchoolHong Kong:
Dec. 15, 9:20 am, Radio Interview: RTHK: “Debussy in Fin-de-siécle Paris”
Dec. 16 Masterclasses at Chinese International SchoolBangkok:
Dec. 17 Private Masterclasses
Dec. 18 Silpakorn University, Lecture Recital: Seeing Debussy in fin-de-siècle Paris: Clowns, Colonies, and CakewalksMarch 21-26, 2016 45th annual Seattle Young Artists Music Festival (SYAMFA)
Apr. 2-6, 2016 MTNA National Convention Participant, San Antonio, TX
May 2016 Musicfest Northwest
May 1, 2016 Solo recital University of California, San Diego
June 15, 2016 Solo Recital, Darius Milhaud Conservatoire, Aix-en-Provence, France
June 19, 2016 Solo recital, Alexandre Scriabin Museum, Moscow, Russia
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Jan. 17 Judge, MTNA East Central Division “Young Artist Piano” and “Senior Piano Duet”
Jan. 23 Faculty Recital, “Winterreise” of Franz Schubert, with Steven Spears
Feb. 7 Judge, “Sonata Festival” Wisconsin Conservatory, Milwaukee, WI
Feb. 7 Lecture Recital and Masterclass, Wisconsin Conservatory, Milwaukee, WI
Feb. 8 Recital, First Congregational Church, Appleton, WI
Feb. 22 Faculty Recital – Lawrence University Chapel
March 3 Recital, St. Johns on the Lake, 1840 N. Prospect Str., Milwaukee, WI.
March 8 Judge, Steinway Society Competition, Palm Springs, CA.
March 14 Recital, Merit School, Chicago, IL.
March 14 Masterclass, Merit School, Chicago, IL.
March 26 Lecture-Recital, “Debussy in Paris”, University of AZ, School of Music
March 27 Lecture-Recital, “Debussy in Paris, Tucson Music Teachers Assoc., Premiere Piano Home of Steinway at Plaza Palomino
March 30 Masterclass for advanced high school students, Tucson Music Teachers Assoc., Premiere Piano Home of Steinway At Plaza Palomino
April 8 Lecture-recital and Masterclass, Interlochen Arts Academy, Interlochen, MI
April 18 Recital, MacPhail Center for Music, Minneapolis, MN
April 19 Masterclass, MacPhail Center for Music, Minneapolis, MN
April 18 Lawrence University Alumni Event, St. Paul, MN
July 1-13 Piano Faculty and performances at Interharmony Music Festival, Arcidosso, Italy.
Nov. 15 Complete Brahms Sonatas for Violin and Piano, Lawrence Faculty Recital