Upcoming events:

I will be playing the Beethoven 4th Concerto with The Ridgefield, CT Symphony Orchestra on February 8, 2002 at 8 PM.

I will be giving all-Szymanowski concerts with violinist Blanka Bednarz at Settlement Music School, Mary Louise Curtis Branch, at 7 PM on Thursday, February 13, and at Barnes Hall, Cornell University, at 3 PM on Sunday, February 16.

I will also be touring with Blanka in Kansas the last week of February, playing more all Szymanowski programs. Concerts will be held at the University of Kansas-Lawrence (Feb. 25), Southwestern College, Winfield (Feb. 27), Wichita State University (Feb. 28), the Sandzen Gallery in Lindsborg (4 PM, Mar 1), and Ft. Hays State University (3 PM, Mar. 2).

On April 23, 8 PM, at La Maison Francaise in Washington, DC, I will be appearing on a program of Fontainebleau alumni; the program includes the Ravel Trio in A minor.

Recent news:

(Dec '02) I performed as a soloist for the third time in Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall.

(Nov '02) I gave the first all-Szymanowski recital with violinist Blanka Bednarz, at St. Anne's Church in Boston.

(Nov '02) I recently gave the first of many recitals focused on the music of Szymanowski, with violinist Bin Huang, at the beautiful Polish Embassy in Washington DC (see the Embassy Series website).

(Sep '02) I have recently moved to Philadelphia, where I am on the theory and piano faculty at Settlement Music School and on the piano staff at the Curtis Institute of Music.

(Sep '02) My summer was a spectacular one, including a trip to France, Holland, Switzerland, England, Scotland, and Sweden for a combination of musical pursuits and vacation. In the meantime I won two golf tournaments, a Grand Prix chess tournament in England, and a prize for piano performance in France!

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