I have to confess: I get a little jaded sometimes. I ask myself, “Is being a musician really worth it?” I mean, except for a …
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Category Archives: music
I’m sure I’m not the only composer who periodically takes stock of her collected works, as a way to glean whatever insight may come from …
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One of the drawbacks of being a pianist is that you can spend an awful lot of time playing alone, unlike other instrumentalists who, almost …
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While working out the order for this recital, I split the pieces from the 30 Days Project into two sets and alternated them with other …
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I was very pleased with how my recital went on Wednesday! What I am less pleased with is how tedious the task of editing video …
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A mind is a terrible thing. Perhaps you’ve heard of the concept of Monkey Mind. Even if you didn’t already know the term, I’m sure …
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I’ve been slaving over a hot piano quite a bit more than usual lately! I’d like to say it’s due to a frenzy of inspiration, …
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If I were an old-school classical music critic, I might say that an event like the Boston Symphony‘s Project Tchaikovsky was just the latest in …
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Confession time: for a professional classical musician, I don’t have a very impressive CD collection. When fellow music nerds start discussing questions of who made …
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Three years ago, on a cool and cloudy day in Irvine, California, I accompanied McDoc, then a fourth year medical student, to his Match Day …
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