I know, the footage of the Prelude looks over-cranked, Tarantino-style. Swear to God, that’s just how my hands move. The Fugue is a Beethovenian universe, its subject and counter-subject inhabiting and cavorting variously within the orbits of 8th, 16th and triplet 16th figuration. A singular solar system. My 96-episode archive, Everything We …
As I make my way through recording the complete WTC, I’m also building a piano-curricular archive, videos explicating my thoughts and offering educational moments of more general application on each Prelude and Fugue. My 96-episode archive, Everything We Need To Know About Playing The Piano We Learn From The Well-Tempered Clavier, is now available at …
Thrilled to announce this project, brainchild of Maestro Eduardo Marturet‘s Season of the Piano at the Miami Symphony Orchestra, a collaboration with brilliant Brazilian jazz pianist and composer, Andre Mehmari. His music is beautiful, his energy, infectious. Thanks to school-chum and Percussionist of the Miami Symphony Orchestra, Dexter Dwight, for turning me onto this great …
Just finished reading Haruki Murakami‘s collection of essays on his marathon and triathalon training and not incidentally, his writing method and discipline, his raison d’etre, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running. True to the inspired and inspiring tone and content, I read most of this in a two-hour StairMaster session. A confessional …