Welcome to my home page!
I'm a classical pianist, teacher, and recording artist active in Westchester County, just outside New York City.
Also, I'm the founder of KASP Records, which has produced five CD's. They include my performances of music by Beethoven and Schubert, plus little known but important works of Ludwig Spohr (1784-1859) and Artur Schnabel (1882-1951). Among these are the first recordings of Spohr's Piano Sonata and Schnabel's Dance Suite, as well as the only currently in print performance of Schnabel's Seven Pieces of 1947. You can read about these recordings at www.kasprecords.com.
And I've served on the juries of various competitions, such as at the Pre-College Concerto Competition at the prestigious Juilliard School, and on the Bruce Hungerford Memorial Award panel at the Young Concert Artists auditions.
I write concert reviews.
And I've had years and years of education, both before and after receiving the Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the Manhattan School of Music, majoring in piano. For example, I attended pedagogy courses at the Diller-Quaile School in New York, as well as the summer seminar in piano technique at the Taubman Institute in Massachusetts.
My teachers were three wonderful ensemble artists, Sina Berlinski, Artur Balsam and Eleanor Hancock, and five pianists with major solo and recording careers: Bruce Hungerford, Constance Keene, Robert Goldsand, Lilian Kallir, and Zenon Fishbein.
What does one do with all these different influences? One takes the best one learned from each one! More about my teaching philosophy can be found at www.WestchesterPianoLessons.com, org, and net.