A Return to Elegance
In sound, elegance is personified by the hypnotic and beguiling singing tone that was a unique aesthetic of 19th and early 20th century pianists. It was held as the highest pinnacle of a pianistic artistry. A return to elegance and beauty of tone is what ignites me as a pianist. Read more:
About me
My mission in music is to awaken listeners to the beguiling realms of elegance and beautiful tone at the piano. It is known that the piano is both a percussive and string instrument. But for me, the piano is foremost a ‘singing’ instrument where a myriad of tones in an infinite variety of colors are born through the vibration of the strings. As Chopin said “the piano must SING!”. That is my credo. Through my research in attaining...
emphasize her versatility.She blends the music at hand with startling swiftness-American Music Guide
My recordings
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Journey of the Soul
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Piano Works
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Portrait
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Discography
Blog
Days 2,3 &4 Recording
The past couple of days of recording were centered around finishing the Bach-Rachmaninoff Prelude and starting the Bach Invention in E major as well as the Prelude and Fugue in C minor. I thought it would be nice to mix some pure Bach and show the development in his use of counterpoint by juxtaposing the Invention with the...
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Day 1 of recording
Well, it was a good first day of recording, and I focused on the first piece which is Bach-Busoni’s “Ich ruf zu dir Herr”. My husband Mark always assists in the acoustical end of things and got the room ready with the microphones and acoustical panels. This is how it looked: I record on a Steinway D from the concert department,...
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The making of my new recording
I thought it might be fun to keep a blog running with day-to-day updates about my latest recording project. It is an all-Bach and Bach transcription program which I am recording in my studio. I seem to wear most of the hats in this endeavor–everything from playing the music, keeping the piano in tune to placing microphones, running...
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My new addiction
I was in dire need of a musical ‘pick-me-up’ and so I ordered several newly released CD’s from the prestigious Cembal d’amour label. I knew to expect great things as I greedily tore open my first selection- a set of bravura concertos recorded live by the pianist Mindru Katz. What I naively thought would be a ‘pick me...
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