Here is a step-by-step guide on making and uploading an audition video to submit to a summer camp, festival, school, or competition.

When I was a child I took lessons from a local piano teacher, organist and composer named Regina Fryxell. She was married to a prominent...

Our Beethoven project in New Zealand was a year in the planning, and now it has come to an end. After a big event, it's important to...

It amazes me that I can travel halfway around the world and meet people who do the same thing I do. Yesterday I had the opportunity to...

On Sunday night Justine and I played our third and final Beethoven sonata program, in Memorial Hall in Queenstown, to an audience of...

Tonight was the second concert of three for the all-Beethoven cycle we are playing. Justine and I performed at the Wanaka Centre in the...

Tonight in Bannockburn, New Zealand, Justine and I played the first of our three programs for the Beethoven violin/piano sonatas cycle,...

I recently reviewed a book for Oxford University Press and was pleased to discover that I could request payment in the form of either a...

I would be remiss if I didn't mention the warm hospitality I have been experiencing here in New Zealand. Justine and Marc are hosting me...

As you know if you have been reading my posts, Justine Cormack and I are preparing to perform the complete Beethoven sonatas for violin...

Today the program book for next week's concerts went to print. There have also been articles in various local publications profiling us...

The screen is self-illuminated and it doesn't matter if there is enough light in the room. I can annotate in different colors, and in a...

On February 14, 15, and 16 Justine Cormack and I will perform the complete Beethoven sonatas for violin and piano in three different...

I was quite surprised to read about the passing of the legendary Peter Serkin the other day. Some people's star burns so brightly that...

About twice a month I receive an inquiry from somebody asking for advice on starting piano training for their young child or grandchild....

I missed a couple of days' posts, because I was ...traveling to New Zealand! The trip involved flying from Indianapolis to Houston to...

All this Beethoven practicing must be getting to me. My bleary-eyed spouse reported to me this morning that at 4 am I woke up, sat bolt...

I was on campus for a couple of hours the other day, and bumped into one of my students in the library. Then, in the hallway, I saw...

The other day Justine and I had our first rehearsal, which was only possible due to a massive amount of technology. Each of us had...

In a recent lesson, a student played a Bach fugue that I hadn’t heard her play in several weeks. When she finished, I asked her what she...