I recently took a trip to Kansas City for their International Film Festival where the short rom-com I wrote, “Loves Me, Loves Me Not”, was being screened. Almost every step…

Perfectionism and follow through. I have been plagued with these two curses. I don’t know if I can’t follow through because I’m a perfectionist and rarely happy with what I…

When is it one’s style, one’s sound, one’s language and when is it just a habit or how the notes fall naturally on the instrument? Being hopelessly afraid of falling…

Historically Accurate or Currently Audacious? I am fascinated with half steps. If you look at modulation it’s the sharp four, the introduction of the half step, that moves a key…

Hi Everyone, I am going to try to post a weekly blog and to do my damndest to keep it going for more than 4 weeks! Here’s the first post.…

Mark your calendars now for July 3 – a dual CD release show for The Present Quartet (me, Jeff Schwartz, Anne LeBaron, and Charles Sharp) and Dan Clucas’s Boojum Quartet…