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I’m teaching a new summer camp called Popular Music for Piano! this June 17-21st. You can read more about it here.
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Listennbntrio: NbN Trio (Nora Barton, Billie Howard,...
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The Paver is playing with some really great bands this Saturday at Township. Please come out! Bear Claw, Buildings, The Columbines, The Paver @ Township 8pm April 20th 2013.
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Performance
While on my trip to England and Germany, I experienced three “performances” that I’m sure will stick with me and influence me for a long time. “Vanitas” by Salvatore Sciarrino at the Staatsoper im Schiller Theater demonstrated how opera can be modern and intimate. The staging and performances (especially that of mezzo soprano Rowan Hellier) were so effective that as...
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If You’re Busy, You’re Doing Something Wrong: The... →
In the early 1990s, a trio of psychologists descended on the Universität der Künste, a historic arts academy in the heart of West Berlin. They came to study the violinists. As described in their subsequent publication in Psychological Review, the researchers asked the academy’s music professors to help them identify a set of stand out violin players — the students who the professors believed...
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February 2013
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Live from the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway | ICElab Phyllis Chen’s Glass Clouds We Have Known for flute, bass clarinet, sound bowls, toy piano, piano, with electronics and video by Robert Dietz.
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On Memorization
Playing from memory has always been one of the most difficult and frustrating elements of performance for me. Memorization itself has varying levels of difficulty depending on the piece (Ravel is easy…Bach not so much). Throw performance anxiety into the mix and it makes for all sorts of problems. I recently came across two articles about memorization in our present culture. Why We Should...
Feb 21st
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Performances
I’m excited to be performing two recitals with violist Jay Pike: 7pm Saturday, Feb. 23rd at Grace Episcopal Church, 637 S. Dearborn in Chicago IL 6:30pm Saturday, Mar. 9th at the Chapel at Concordia University in River Forest, IL as part of the piano faculty’s annual recital. The program includes Schumann’s Märchenbilder and Britten’s Lachrymae. For more upcoming...
Feb 19th
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Interview: Nomi Epstein
earalone: Apologies for the long hiatus.  I’ve got a lot of content from before the new year that still needs to be posted, so let’s get into it. I spent 2012 reading a lot of/about John Cage for his centenary.   I didn’t however, spend a lot of time talking about it.  So I interviewed composer, concert curator, and Cage scholar Nomi Epstein at the end of the year to discuss and reflect on the...
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Untitled “White Noise”: NbN Trio From our performance as part of the Major Sound Series at High Concept Labs, Dec. 9th 2012.
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Girl Group Chicago keeps it real →
Show tonight at the Burlington!
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January 2013
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Refuting Irrational Ideas: Combating Stress in... →
Interesting and helpful thoughts in dealing with stress. Though this article is directed toward writing, I think it also relates to music and life in general. Thanks Jenna!
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Sandra Gibson, Luis Recoder, Olivia Block
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ICElab Confidential: Daniel Dehaan in the Crucible... →
Back in October, I played electric violin with Sound Room and International Contemporary Ensemble made this nice blog post about one of the sessions. I had the opportunity to do some improvisations on voice with Sound Room at a later concert in December—which was both nerve-wracking and exhilarating for me since I’m an instrumentalist who is only used to singing solfege in theory...
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I’m accepting new piano students at my studio at Concordia University for the winter term. Have you always wanted to learn piano or have children who’d like to play? I teach all ages, from 4 years on up! For more information, visit our website: http://www.cuchicago.edu/community-piano
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