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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Online Piano Videos, The Virtual Piano Pedagogue
 

PIANIST AND PRESENTER

The Art of the Phrase
The Genius of Domenico Scarlatti
The Imagination of Robert Schumann
The Essence of Chopin
The Fantastic Sound-World of Claude Debussy (with pianist Dean Kramer and soprano Katie Harman Ebner)
 

PRODUCER

The Power of Beethoven (with pianist Dean Kramer)
The Secrets of Russian Piano Playing (with pianist Alexander Tutunov)
Visions of Prokofiev (with pianist Alexander Tutunov)
A video Master Class with Pianist Anton Nel 
 

PUBLICATIONS

  • “The Virtual Piano Pedagogue Projects,” Oregon Music Teachers Association Online Newsletter: Music News, March 2018, pp. 13-14 (2018)
  • “The 21st Century Piano Teacher” The Oregon Musician e-Journal, February (Issue No. 1, pp.3-7) https://oregonmta.org/wp-content/uploads/OM_11-02.pdf (2011)
  • "The Master Class Experience and the Moment of Transformation" The Oregon Musician (Vol. 17, No. 1.) Spring pp. 4-7 (2009)
  • News and Views: “What advice do you give to graduating high school seniors?” Keyboard Companion, Spring (Vol. 14, No. 1) pp. 53-55 (2003)
  • “A Rolfer Can Tune Your Body,” Structural Integration: The Journal of the Rolf Institute, Spring (Vol. 29, No. 2) pp. 27-30 (2001). Reprinted with permission from the September/October 2000 issue of Piano and Keyboard magazine (2000)
  • Technique: “How do you work with a student who plays everything loudly?” Keyboard Companion, Autumn (Vol. 11, No. 2) p.17 (2000)         
  • “The Piano Teaching of Theodore Leschetizky,” The Oregon Musician (Vol. 8, No. 1) Winter pp. 4-6 (2000)
  • “A Rolfer Can Tune Your Body,” Piano and Keyboard September/October pp. 22-25 (2000)
  • “The Unique Piano Pedagogy of Johannes Brahms,” Piano Life, Vol. 3, No. 2 (Greenwich, CT: Excellence in Music, Spring) pp.30-32 (1998)
  • “Committee Report: Professionalism Portfolio for the Independent Teacher: Studio Policies,” Piano Life, (Greenwich, CT: Excellence in Music, Fall) pp. 34-36 Co-authored with Helen Tarchalski Smith (1998)
  • "Pedal Points," The Oregon Musician, Spring (Vol. 4, No. 1) pp. 30-32 (1996)
  • “The Piano Animal,” The Piano Quarterly. Co-authored with Dean Kramer (1986)