tri-c.edu/news-and-event… February 23 at 7PM Tri-C Metro Auditorium. Looking forward to performing Mozart Concerto for Two Pianos with the Lviv Philharmonic and Maestro Theodore Kuchar. If you are in Cleveland, I hope you can attend!

There once was a career criminal who reveled in the attention of the media. He wanted to be a star. Out of all the terrible crimes he committed, what ultimately brought him down wasn’t his worst: tax evasion. I’m talking of …….Al Capone, of course!

I received the honor of being named Vice Director for Education at Lang Lang Art World. Located in Hangzhou, China, this is an arts organization nurturing and providing opportunities for young talent. Thank you, Lang Lang, for your trust, and thanks to the whole organization!

youtu.be/ZD-2CYB4fEY Todi International Music Masters: Todi, Italy August 3-17. Applications deadline: May 20. todimusicmasters.com

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This year marks my 20th as a faculty member, here at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Happy to renew my commitment to CIM, now also serving as Head of the Piano Department. Many thanks to the CIM leadership for the trust, and to my colleagues for their support.

Proud to be featured on yet another Danacord CD from the Husum Piano Rarities Festival!

World premiere of a gorgeous piece: Etude Op.34, N.2 by Luca Moscardi. With permission from the Husum festival and Danacord Records. youtu.be/nqTAzpqpcl0

Gramophone magazine just published a review of the Danacord Records CD featuring highlights of the 2022 Husum Piano Rarities festival. Thank you for praising my little contribution to this amazing festival so highly!

This Chopin Waltz was one of my encores at the Split Piano Loop festival last month. Hope you enjoy! youtu.be/W_Kc_JSl3go?si…

This Saturday: Marc-André Hamelin at CIM! Free and open to the public!

Amazing news: Gabriela Montero joins CIM’s faculty as artist-in-residence! Greatly looking forward to working with this extraordinary artist and human being!

Todi International Music Masters is accepting applications and calling all pianists. Please share at will! youtu.be/jdKALjNG-9A?si…

Very much looking forward to hosting the wonderful pianist and pedagogue, Dr. Min Kwon at the Cleveland Institute of Music, this coming Saturday. Dr. Kwon will be performing selections from her project, America/Beautiful, and then give a masterclass.

Almost three years ago, I went to the piano and started improvising on this beautiful melody. I recorded myself, and later decided to fashion that improvisation into a little piece. Well, this is what came out. I hope you enjoy it! youtu.be/A7fpHsSL90g

“We have a new president and it’s Edmundo Gonzalez. Venezuelan opposition rejects Maduro’s victory announced by the Electoral Council.

Shame on you! As a Venezuelan, Amnesty International Honorary Consul and Human Rights Foundation Human Rights Foundation (HRF) Vaclav Havel laureate for Creative Dissent, the lies you spread can only contribute to furthering the misery and desperation of an entire nation in a 25 year grip of a tyrannical

This is the Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Piano Quintet I played for ChamberFest Cleveland. My amazing partners were violinists Yura Lee and Jacques Forestier, violist Teng Li, and cellist Julie Albers. Here is the video link: youtu.be/1YQAczh-hTo?si… I hope you enjoy watching it.