Studio Piano
High-quality teaching is of the utmost importance to me. The litmus test of an undergraduate school like Bucknell is whether the program can produce students that can succeed in the national competition for the few spots available at the top conservatories and schools for graduate work--because those schools provide the only realistic chance at a career.

My students have completed graduate piano performance degrees at institutions such as the Eastman School of Music, Peabody Conservatory, and the New England Conservatory, among others.

My principal goal as a teacher is to maximize each student's development. I take great care to try to teach students how to teach themselves, because the luxury of having a private teacher doesn't last the rest of your life! With help from the student, I try to devise a program that is specially suited to the person's goals, whether those be teaching at a university, making a living as a performer, making a living as a piano teacher, or playing piano in a band and teaching classical music on the side (former students are doing all of these).

I maintain a restricted-access web page for my students at this site:

http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/music/courses/studio_piano/

The site contains materials on topics such as how to practice, performance problems and solutions, proper body use and healthy technique (drawing from Alexander, Taubman, Rolfing movement), piano literature, musical and concert etiquette, links, and other information. If you are off-campus and would like to visit this page, please contact me via e-mail so that I can send you the password.