“I never liked Schoenberg until today.”
— Audience member, mid-70s, Encinitas Library Noontime Concerts, after my performance of Schoenberg’s completely 12-tone Suite, Op. 25
“How did you make those sounds (Stockhausen’s Klavierstück IX)? Can you show me?”
— Audience member during intermission, mid-50s, Berkshire Music School recital
“I don’t usually like Scriabin, but you made this piece sound so rhythmic and jazzy that I was really into it!”
— Audience member, house concert in Vancouver, Washington
“I never realized Beethoven could be political.”
— Audience member, Conrad Prebys Music Center Concert Hall, UC San Diego, after my performance of Beethoven’s Sonata #32 in C minor, Op. 111
Recent Programs
(Non)Christmas Piano Recital
Water, Bells, and Voices
December 18, 2020 (streaming)
Scherzo #1 in B minor, Op. 20—F. Chopin
“Noël” from Vingt Regards Sur L’enfant Jésus—O. Messiaen
Romanian Christmas Carols—B. Bartók
Sonata #31 in A-flat major, Op. 110—L. van Beethoven
March 5, 2021 (streaming)
Four Dirges—B. Bartók
Threaded Spaces—Yvonne Yiheng Wu
Images, livre 2—C. Debussy
Barcarolle, Op. 60—F. Chopin
Radium Butterfly
March 10th, 2020
Stephen Lewis and Kyle Adam Blair, pianos
Diabelli Variations Preview—L. van Beethoven
Pinetop—Stuart Saunders Smith
Sequenza IV—Luciano Berio
Radium Butterfly—Stephen Lewis (world premiere)
The Unbearable Lightness of Grief
October 2019 (various dates)
Sonata #2 in B-flat minor, Op. 35—F. Chopin
Sonata #4 in F-sharp major, Op. 30—A. Scriabin
Drei Intermezzi, Op. 117—J. Brahms
Sonata in A minor, K. 310—W.A. Mozart
Summer of ‘19 Delights
August 2019
Prelude and Fugue in G major, WTC I—J.S. Bach
Sonata in B-flat major, Op. 22—L. van Beethoven
Études, book 1 (selections)—György Ligeti
Sonatine—M. Ravel
Music from World War I in France
September 2018
Images, livre 1—C. Debussy
Variations—Lili Boulanger
Études (selections)—C. Debussy
Le tombeau de Couperin—M. Ravel
Final DMA Recital
May 2017
Vier Klavierstücke, Op. 119—J. Brahms
Études (selections)—C. Debussy
Sequenza IV—Luciano Berio
Sonata #32 in C minor, Op. 111—L. van Beethoven
Machines and Modernism
May 2013
Sonatina—B. Bartok
imag/E—Roger Reynolds
Images, livre 1—C. Debussy
Suite, Op. 25—A. Schoenberg
Sonata—B. Bartok
Four Corners of the 20th Century
February 2010
Sonata, Op. 1—Alban Berg
Klavierstück IX—Karlheinz Stockhausen
Études, book 1 (selections)—György Ligeti
Sonata—Elliott Carter