Music has shaped my life for more than 40 years as a pianist and teacher, for more than four decades of teaching and performing and sharing that joy with hundreds of students. Through my town eacher’s musical lineage, I am only a few generations removed from the legendary composer and pianist Franz Liszt, a connection that inspires me to honor and ...

Forty-eight years ago, one woman told me something that changed the entire direction of my life. She told me that I had talent. That simple sentence led me to audition for Dr. Yesen, and incredibly, he accepted me as his student. Looking back, that moment was one of the great turning points of my life. Dr. Yesen became one of the most important infl ...

One of the moments that changed my life happened in 1970, when my parents made a sacrifice I have never forgotten. They purchased a Baldwin Hamilton piano for about $900. At the time, $900 was a great deal of money for our family, and my parents were not earning very much, but they believed in me enough to make that investment. That piano became a c ...