Performing

I believe a performance should be, first and foremost, fresh, spontaneous, and alive. I do NOT believe in a planned, prepared, ‘definitive’ interpretation.

Like playing a Ouija board, my preference is to let the music lead me wherever it wants to go.

Call it Zenpiano if you like.


Sample Programs

TYPICAL ECLECTIC
Images Bk. II – Debussy
3 pieces – Jon Fisher (b. 1969)
Variations Serieuses – Mendelssohn
4 Mazurkas – Szymanowski
Sonata no. 5 – Scriabin

VIRTUOSO
Sonata no. 7 – Prokofieff
4 Etudes – Debussy
Sonata no. 28 op. 101 – Beethoven
Ballade no. 2 – Chopin

ALL DEBUSSY
Estampes
Images Bk. I
Images Bk. II
L’isle joyeuse
4 Etudes

POPULAR
Italian Concerto – Bach
Sonata in A op. 120 – Schubert
4 preludes – Rachmaninoff
Ballade no. 3 – Chopin

ALL BARTOK
Suite op. 14
Six Bulgarian Dances
Sonata
Improvisations op. 20

TRADITIONAL
3 Sonatas – Scarlatti
Sonata In G major – Haydn
2 Rhapsodies – Brahms
Images Bk. I – Debussy
Piano Rag Music – Stravinsky

ALL PROKOFIEFF
Sonata no. 9
Visions Fugitives 1-10
II & III from Sonata no. 5
Sonata no. 7

ALL AMERICAN
The Alcotts – Ives
4 Piano Blues – Copland
Sonata – Barber
2 pieces – Stefan Wolpe
3 Pieces – Jon Fisher