November 14 and 18, 2024
Classical piano trios with the “Vivaldi Project,” violinist Elizabeth Field and cellist Stephanie Vial. Ohio University and Butler College. Tuinman-Walter fortepiano. Music of Haydn, Mozart, and CPE Bach.
September 21, 2024
“Sierra duo” recital with cellist John Haines-Eitzen, Cornell University. Beethoven’s “Bei Männern” Variations and premiere of Cello Sonata by Allen McCullough.
September 8, 2024
Violin/piano duo recital with John McLaughlin Williams, violinist. Hillsdale College. Music of Mozart, Paganini, Alkan, Ulysses Kay, Finney, and Joseph Marx.
March 18, 2024
“Fauré Centennial Recital” on 1866 Erard piano. Concert organizer; performed Preludes, op. 103 and Violin Sonata no. 1 with Fabiola Kim.
February 6, 9, 11, 2024
“Archduke Trio” recitals of music by Haydn, Beethoven, Fauré, and Mendelssohn. University of Michigan, Cornell University, and Wolfeboro Friends of Music, Wolfeboro, NH.
November 14, 2023
Noontime Concerts, San Francisco. Recital of music by Scriabin and Szymanowski.
November 10, 2023
Old First Concerts, San Francisco. Contemporary music solo recital. Music of Arauco, Bolcom, Cacioppo, Carlson, Schoenfeld, and Sierra, including the world premiere of Sierra’s Piano Sonata no. 13.
November 3, 2023
Friends of Chamber Music concert series, Reading, PA. Performance of Vittorio Giannini’s Piano Quintet with the Amernet String Quartet.
October 23, 2023
Solo fortepiano and piano recital at Bucknell University. Music of WF and CPE Bach, Mozart, Schoenfeld, Scriabin, Cacioppo, Schmitt, and Sierra.
September 15, 2023
Solo recital on pianos by Walter, Blüthner, and Pleyel as part of the Westfield Center for Historical Keyboard Studies “Sustaining Keyboards” conference. Music of Mozart, Beach, Macdowell, Fauré, Schmitt, and Chopin.
September 12, 2023
Solo recital, Temple University Boyer College of Music. Music of Schoenfeld, Beach, MacDowell, Fauré, Schmitt, Bolcom, and Sierra.
Recital on the Erard and Broadwood pianos at the Sigal Collection, Greenville, SC as part of the Westfield Center for Historical Keyboard Studies “From the Old World to the New” conference. Music of Beach, Macdowell, Brahms, and Chopin.
January 24 and 29, 2023
“Sierra Duo” recital with cellist John Haines-Eitzen. Music of Sierra, Walker, and Beethoven. U. Michigan School of Music, Theatre and Dance and Cornell Univ.
December 1, 2022
Lecture-recital on piano works of Roberto Sierra with introductions by the composer. Program included Piezas Liricas and selections from Estudios rítmicos y sonoros. U. Michigan School of Music, Theatre and Dance.
October 22, 2022
Saturday Classics series, Piano Gallery of Detroit. Duo recital with John McLaughlin Williams, violin. Frühlingssonate by Joseph Marx, Tallahassee Suite by Cyril Scott, and Sonate libre en deux parties enchainées (ad modum clementis aquae) by Florent Schmitt.
October 2, 2022
Solo recital, works by Walker, Ravel, Sierra, Liszt, and Scriabin. Southern Illinois University Piano Festival. Event included a pre-concert lecture.
September 17, 2022
Recital on the Erard and Broadwood pianos. Music of Clementi, Beethoven, Brahms, Liszt, and Chopin. Britton Recital Hall, University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance.
May 2, 2022
Two Etudes by Robert Casadesus and George Walker Cello Sonata with Khari Joyner, cello. 100th anniversary of Fontainebleau Schools, Merkin Hall, NYC.
March 12, 2022
“Keys to the Sigal” festival, final concert at the Sigal Collection of Musical Instruments, Greenville, SC. Music of Mozart, Haydn-Huydts, Chopin, Liszt, Fauré, and Franck on a Stein and an Erard piano.
February 27, 2022
Fortepiano recital, “Early Music in the Barn” recital series, Grayslake, outside Chicago, IL. Music of CPE and WF Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, and Haydn-Huydts.
January 25 and February 6, 2022
Trios by Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn in the “Archduke Trio” with Aaron Berofsky, violin, and John Haines-Eitzen, cello. U Michigan and Cornell; Erard and Pleyel pianos.
October 24, 2021
“Piano con Sabor” series, Auditorio Manuel de Falla, Granada, Spain. Music of Scriabin, Albéniz, Sierra, and Franck.
March 29, 2021
Solo fortepiano recital, held via Streamyard. Music of Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and a premiere of a new composition by Sebastian Huydts.
March 13, 2021
“Latin Sounds and Rhythms.” Iberia, Books 1 and 2 by Isaac Albéniz, and world premiere of the complete Estudios rítmicos y sonoros by Roberto Sierra.
September 20, 2020
“Great Solo Piano Works from my Lifetime.” Music of Schoenfeld, Walker, Dutilleux, and Foss. Live streamed.
March 15, 2020
Solo fortepiano recital, “Musica Maxima” series in Beloit, WI. Music of JS, WF, and CPE Bach, Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven.
February 23, 2020
Solo fortepiano recital, Kent State University. Works of JS, WF, and CPE Bach, Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven.
February 5 and 8, 2020
“Sierra Duo” recitals with John Haines-Eitzen, cello. Music by Brahms, Franck, and Sierra.
June 2, 2019
Opening recital at University of Michigan Early Keyboard Institute. I performed Beethoven’s Sonata in A-flat op. 26 and JCF Bach four hands Sonata in C.
March 26, 2019
Chamber music recital on Graf fortepiano with period strings, with the “Archduke Trio” of Aaron Berofsky, violin, and John Haines-Eitzen, cello. Cornell University. Music of Haydn and Beethoven.
March 23, 2019
Fortepiano chamber music with period strings, with Christina Adams and Alyssa Campbell, violin, Elizabeth Boyce, viola, and Leo Singer, cello. Music of CPE Bach, Haydn, and Mozart, including the Mozart Concerto K. 449 in E-flat.
February 24, 2019
Violin/piano duo and solo recital the U. of Michigan School of Music, Theatre and Dance, with violinist Blanka Bednarz. Music by Szymanowski, Lutoslawski, and Bacewicz.
November 2, 2018
All-Debussy solo recital as part of Debussy commemoration festival, Univ. of Michigan School of Music, Theatre and Dance.
October 21, 2018
“From the Salon to the Armistice: French Music.” Duo recital with Guillaume Tardif at the Univ. of Michigan School of Music, Theatre and Dance. Works of Pauline Viardot, Fauré, Ysaÿe, Lili Boulanger, and Debussy.
October 12, 2018
College Music Society National Conference, Vancouver, BC. I performed Rhapsody-Toccata by Chiayu Hsu.
September 21, 2018
“From the Salon to the Armistice: French Music.” Recital with Guillaume Tardif at the University of Alberta, Edmonton. Music of Pauline Viardot, Fauré, Ysaÿe, and Debussy.
July 31, 2018
Violin/piano duo and solo recital at Biala Sala in Poznan, Poland, with violinist Blanka Bednarz. Music by Szymanowski, Chopin, Gershwin, Debussy, and Piazzolla.
July 28, 2018
Violin/piano duo and solo recital at “Karol Szymanowski Days,” Karol Szymanowski Museum in Zakopane, Poland, with violinist Blanka Bednarz. Music by Szymanowski.
June 4, 2018
Opening recital at University of Michigan Early Keyboard Institute. I performed music by Armand-Louis Couperin, Mozart, JS Bach, and Pasquini.
May 9, 2018
Opening recital at the Historical Keyboard Society of North America. I was fortepiano soloist in Mozart Concerto in A major K. 414 and in the Concerto for four keyboards in A minor BWV 1065 by JS Bach.
April 29, 2018
Network for New Music gala event honoring the legacy of Artistic Director Linda Reichert. World Premiere performance of Notes of Gratitude, by Jennifer Higdon.
April 27, 2018
Performance at The Washington Square Contemporary Music Society, The Tenri Cultural Institute, New York City. Alchemy by Jan Krzywicki.
March 11, 2018
Guest harpsichordist with Melomanie. Performances of music by Marais, Schaffrath, Armand-Louis Couperin, and Roman Haubenstock-Ramati.
January 26-30, 2018
Tour with Sierra Duo, John Haines-Eitzen, cello. Performances at James Madison University, High Point University, UNC-Chapel Hill, and the Steinway Piano Gallery of Charlotte. Music of Beethoven, Franck, Athens, Foote, and Sierra.
January 18, 2018
Solo fortepiano recital with improvised modulating transitions, Wheaton College Conservatory of Music. Music of Haydn, Mozart, CPE Bach, and Beethoven.
November 17, 2017
Solo piano recital at Hope College. Music of Scriabin, Medtner, Ravel, and Rachmaninov.
October 22, 2017
Cello/piano duo recital with Zlatomir Fung. Music of Franck and Bolcom.
October 1, 2017
Solo fortepiano recital with improvised modulating transitions. Early Music at St. James, Lancaster. Music of Haydn, CPE Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven.
September 22, 2017
Russian solo piano recital at the Clifford Symposium, Middlebury College with Rebecca Mitchell, musicologist. Music of Scriabin, Rachmaninov, and Medtner.
September 13, 2017
Fortepiano recital with improvised modulating transitions. Music of Haydn, Mozart, CPE Bach, and Beethoven.
April 7, 2017
“A Music Salon in Nineteenth-Century Paris.” Solo recital on an 1846 Érard piano, “Music in the Pavilion” series, University of Pennsylvania. Music of Beethoven, Liszt, Alkan, and Chopin.
April 1, 2017
Solo recital, University of Toledo, Dorothy Mackenzie Price Piano Series. Music of Beethoven, Liszt, Alkan, and Chopin.
January 10, 2017
Solo recital, University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre, and Dance. Music of Ravel, Scriabin, Bolcom, and Chopin.
February 24, 2016
Solo recital in 88 Lately series, University of Pennsylvania. Music of M. Wagner, Berio, Carter, Nancarrow, Ligeti, Takemitsu and Bolcom.
November 21, 2015
“Scriabin Centennial Recital,” diMenna Center for Classical Music, New York City, including Sonatas 2, 5, 9 and 10.
November 15, 2015
Bach and Scriabin recital, St. Alban’s Church, Staten Island.
October 23-30, 2015
Six-concert solo recital tour of the midwest, featuring piano music by Scriabin, including the complete sonatas performed in the Chicago area.
October 13, 2015
Scriabin recital, including Sonatas 2, 5, 7 and 10. Boston College.
October 7, 2015
Scriabin recital, including Sonatas 1, 6 and 8. Ithaca College School of Music.
October 4, 2015
Scriabin Complete Sonatas, Part Two (including sonatas 2, 3, 4, 6, 10). Haverford College.
September 28, 2015
Scriabin Complete Sonatas, Part One (including sonatas 1, 5, 7, 8, 9). Temple U. School of Music.
September 25, 2015
Schumann Piano Quintet with the Daedalus String Quartet at the WCR Center for the Arts, Reading, PA.
August 9, 2015
All-Scriabin recital at the closing of the Westfield Center Forte/Piano conference.
June 21, 2015
All-Scriabin recital at Thiksey Gompa Monastery, Ladakh, India, as part of the multi-sensory “Scriabin in the Himalayas” commemoration of the composer’s death.
May 3, 2015
Early Music at St. James performance with Aurelio Ensemble. Music of Stradella, de Selma y Saleverde, Buxtehude, Scarlatti and Bach.
April 19, 2015
“Aleksandr Scriabin: Aesthetic Utopia at the Twilight of the Russian Empire.”Recital at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, with Rebecca Mitchell, lecturer. Music of Scriabin.
March 28, 2015
Solo recital at Chatham University, Pittsburgh, PA, rebroadcast on WQED-FM Performance in Pittsburgh. Music of Scriabin.
March 19, 2015
Solo recital at High Point University, High Point, NC for opening of College Music Society Mid-Atlantic chapter conference. Music of Scriabin.
February 1, 2015
Piano soloist in Brahms’s Piano concerto no. 1 in D minor, on four days notice, with the Washington Metropolitan Philharmonic, Ulysses James conducting.
October 26, 2014
Recital at Cornell University with John Haines-Eitzen, cello. Music of Bach, Beethoven, Schumann and Sierra.
October 11, 2014
Piano Quintet by Vittorio Giannini at Dickinson College with the Amernet String Quartet.
April 15, 2014
Solo recital and presentation on Modernism at the University of Georgia, Hugh Hodgson School of Music. Music of Schoenberg, Boulez, Scriabin and Szymanowski.
April 3, 2014
Steinway Artist concert at Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia. Works of Bach, Scriabin, Szymanowski and Albéniz.
March 19, 2014
Recital at Cornell University with John Haines-Eitzen, cello and Ariana Kim, violin. Music of Cassadó, Mompou, Albeniz, Fauré, and Sierra.
January 16, 2014
Washington International Piano Series, Catholic University, Benjamin T. Rome School of Music. Solo recital: works of Bach, Scriabin and Albéniz.
November 12-13, 2013
Solo recitals at University of Washington School of Music, and Western Washington University School of Music. Music by Bach, Scriabin and Albéniz.
November 7-8, 2013
Piano/violin and solo piano recitals at Longy School of Music and a residency at Boston College including class visitation and masterclass, with Blanka Bednarz, violin. Works of Szymanowski and Lutosławski.
May 5, 2013
Piano soloist in Saint-Saëns’s Carnival of the Animals with Charles Abramovic, piano and the Reading Youth Symphony, Peter Brye conducting.
March 23rd and 24th, 2013
Piano soloist in Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto no. 2 with the Bay-Atlantic Symphony, at Cumberland County College and Stockton College, New Jersey, Jed Gaylin conducting.
January 10th, 2013
Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier Book I (20 selected Preludes and Fugues) in Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, New York City.
October 14th, 2012
Bach’s Goldberg Variations and selections from Well-Tempered Clavier Book I in Triberg, Germany.
October 9th, 2012
Bach’s Goldberg Variations and selections from Well-Tempered Clavier Book I in Salle Molière, Lyon, France.
August 26th, 2012
Mt. Gretna Music 4-hands piano concert with Charles Abramovic. Music including Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring with choreography by Ting-Yu Chen. Also works by Satie, Schmitt, Auric and de Falla.
May 19, 2012
Piano soloist in Audience Choice program: Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto no. 3 with the Reading Symphony Orchestra, Reading, PA, Andrew Constantine conducting.
February 26, 2012
Solo recital for the Steinway Society of Western Pennsylvania. Music of Scriabin, Szymanowski, Schumann and Albeniz.
September 13, 2012
Chess piano concert in three movements by Guido van der Werve with members of the St. Louis Symphony, at the World Chess Museum, St. Louis, MO.
December 6, 2010
Soloist in Scriabin’s Concerto in F# minor, op. 20 with the Delaware County Symphony, Aston, PA, Jeremy Gill conducting.
October 10-11, 2010
Solo recitals on the Pro Musica series, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico. Music of Chopin, Beethoven, Fauré, Barber, Bartok, Liszt, and Ravel’s Gaspard de la Nuit. Schumann’s Davidsbundlertanze and Liszt’s Sonata in B minor.
April 10, 2010
Harpsichord soloist in Francis Poulenc’s Concert Champêtre with the Reading Symphony Orchestra, Reading, PA, Andrew Constantine conducting.
March 21, 2010
Solo fortepiano recital on Guest Artist Series at Haverford College, Haverford, PA. Music of JS Bach, CPE Bach, Haydn, Mozart and Haessler.
January 10-11, 2010
Solo recitals on the Pro Musica series, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico. Music of Albéniz, Mompou, Ginastera, Poncé, Chopin, Schumann, Mendelssohn, and Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations.
January 25, 2009
Market Square concerts, Harrisburg, PA. Solo recital featuring works of Scriabin, Carter, Gill, Berio and Ligeti, and Bach’s Goldberg Variations.
January 10-11, 2009
Solo recitals on the Pro Musica series, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico. Music of Scriabin, Chopin, Szymanowski, Nancarrow and Ligeti, and Bach’s Goldberg Variations.
November 19-22, 2008
Tour of North Carolina. Concerts at Duke University, UNC-Greensboro School of Music, Davidson College and Wake Forest University. Varied programs including works of Chopin, Scriabin, Medtner, Szymanowski, Griffes, Berio, Nancarrow and Ligeti.
November 14, 2008
Performance for the American Philosophical Society, on my Tuinman-Walter fortepiano with Steve Zohn, classical flute and Eve Miller, classical cello. Works of Haydn and CPE Bach.
November 1, 2008
Guest harpsichordist and composer with Melomanie. The ensemble performed my Suite and I also performed works by Matheson and Marais.
November 28, 2007
Penn Humanities Forum performance. Accompanied soprano Julianne Baird on harpsichord and fortepiano in a lecture-recital on the history of ornamented song.
November 7, 2007
Solo recital at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, New York City. Maurice Ravel’s Gaspard de la Nuit and JS Bach’s Goldberg Variations.
August 19, 2007
Performance for the Philadelphia chapter of the Kosciuszko Foundation: an all-Szymanowski program with Blanka Bednarz, violin. Ethical Society on Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia, PA.
July 28, 2007
Fortepiano recital at the opening ceremony of the US Go Congress, Millersville, PA. Music of Reinagle, Mozart and Beethoven.
June 20, 2007
Bach’s Goldberg Variations at the Franz Liszt Museum, Budapest, Hungary.
June 15, 2007
Bach’s Goldberg Variations in Triberg, Germany.
June 8, 2007
Bach’s Goldberg Variations at l’Hotel d’Assézat, Toulouse, France.
May 12, 2006
Solo recital, William E. Maier Memorial Concert of the Albright College Concert Series, Reading, PA. Music of Medtner, Liszt, Faure, Ligeti and Schubert.
March 12, 2006
Solo harpsichord/fortepiano recital for Tri-County Concert Association, St. Davids, PA. Music of Byrd, Handel, Rameau, Bach, Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven
November 9, 2005
Solo/chamber music recital at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, New York City, with Dariusz Skoraczewski, cello. (Bach and Rachmaninov)
June 18, 2005
Solo/chamber music recital at the Church of San Lorenzo, Florence, Italy, with Si-Yan Darren Li, cello. (Bach and Rachmaninov)
June 3, 2005
Solo/chamber music recital at l’Hotel d’Assézat, Toulouse, France with Si-Yan Darren Li, cello. (Bach and Rachmaninov)
May 12, 2005
Solo/chamber music recital at Monticello, Charlottesville, VA with Arsenia Soto, soprano. (Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and Schumann)
March 13, 2005
Recital of all contemporary music, Harvard University. Sponsored by the Harvard Group for New Music.
February 15 and 20, 2005
Recitals of Philadelphia composers. University of the Arts and Haverford College.
May 11, 2003
Chopin, Sonata for Cello and Piano with Dariusz Skoraczewski, cello on the Candlelight Series, Baltimore.
February 25 – March 2, 2003
Tour of Kansas with Blanka Bednarz: all-Szymanowski programs.
February 8, 2003
Beethoven, Piano Concerto no. 4 in G with Ridgefield (CT) Symphony Orchestra.
December 11, 2002
Solo recital performance in Weill Recital Hall, New York City. (Szymanowski, Debussy and Scriabin)
October 3-4, 2002
Solo/chamber music recital at the Polish Embassy, Washington, DC with Bin Huang, violin. (Szymanowski and Wieniawski)
June 2, 2002
Solo/chamber music recital at l’Hotel d’Assézat, Toulouse, France with Igor Yuzefovich, violin. (Bach, Fauré, Scriabin, Beethoven and Ravel)
April 6-7, 2002
Beethoven, Piano Concerto no. 4 in G with Reading Symphony Orchestra, Sidney Rothstein conducting.
December 9, 2001
Solo recital performance for Behre Piano Associates, New York City. (Bartok, Brahms, Szymanowski and Prokofiev)
November 15, 2001
Solo/chamber music recital at Monticello, Charlottesville, VA with Annaliesa Place, violin. (Beethoven and Schubert)
April 20, 2001
Solo recital performance at La Maison Française, Washington DC. (Beethoven, Diabelli Variations)
March 6, 2001
Mozart, Piano Concerto no. 18 in B-flat, K. 456, with Peabody Mozart Players, under my direction.
November 30, 2000
Solo recital performance in Weill Recital Hall, New York City. (Beethoven, Diabelli Variations)
June 11, 2000
Solo/chamber music recital at l’Hotel d’Assézat, Toulouse, France with Jennifer Yeo, piano. (Beethoven, Debussy, Brahms and Schubert)
April 2000
Solo recital performance at La Maison Française, Washington DC. (Chopin and Ravel)
December 15, 1999
Solo recital performance in Weill Recital Hall, New York City. (Szymanowski, Scriabin and Ligeti)
July 7, 1999
Recital performance at Castelvecchio, Verona, Italy. (Rameau and Beethoven)
June 10, 1999
Solo/chamber music recital at l’Hotel d’Assézat, Toulouse, France with Sheng-tsung Wang, violin. (Szymanowski, Scriabin, Ligeti and Beethoven)
February 6, 1999
Solo/chamber music recital performance in the“Star Series”in Reading, PA with Frank Runyeon, narrator. (Schumann and Richard Strauss)
March 21, 1998
Liszt, Totentanz, with Pottstown (PA) Symphony Orchestra, Porter Eidam conducting.
October 19, 1997
Benefit recital for Reading (PA) Rehabilitation Hospital. (Beethoven, Schubert, Bach, Szymanowski and Scriabin)
February 25, 1996
Solo recital in Paine Hall, Harvard University. (Bach, Scriabin, Szymanowski and Chopin)
February 10, 1996
Brahms, Piano Concerto no. 1 in D minor with Reading (PA) Symphony Orchestra, Sidney Rothstein conducting.
April 8, 1995
Solo recital in the “Star Series” in Reading, PA. (Ravel, Chopin, Scriabin and Liszt)
February 20, 1994
Solo recital in St. John’s Lutheran Church (Boyertown, PA) concert series. (Bach, Beethoven, Scriabin, Miaskovsky, Chopin and Liszt)
March 27, 1993
Prokofiev, Piano Concerto no. 3 in C major with Pottstown (PA) Symphony Orchestra, Porter Eidam conducting.
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