After many years of listening to mostly Jazz and guitarists I have gradually changed my listening habits. For over two years I have been mostly listening to and reading about classical pianists. Arthur Rubinstein is still a favorite but William Kapell, Dinu Lipatti, Alexis Weissenberg and Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli are on my repeat listen list. The fact that their world […]
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The new album Quintessence will be out soon and the range of influences on the new songs range from Chopin and Ravel to Thelonious Monk and Django Reinhardt. There are both solo acoustic guitar pieces and solo acoustic guitar with small group. Stay tuned for details.
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My new album Quintessence is in the works. This new recording contains many new pieces I have written in the past year. Though much of the album is solo acoustic guitar the recording opens with a piece that was written and recorded for the upcoming documentary film A Life Well Played. This opening piece Up Town is done as a
I recently did an interview with a Greek music writer for his website. He asked some very thoughtful questions. Click here to read the full text
I have always liked Autumn and Halloween especially holds some fond memories for me. When I was 12 years old I purchased two books that made a big impression on me. One book was The Collected Short Stories of Washington Irving (which included The Legend of Sleepy Hollow) and the other was a collection of poems by Edgar Allan Poe.
Since the age of ten I realized that I wanted to dedicate my life to some sort of creative work. Unlike the rest of my clan I was ill-suited to work in the “trades.” I have the mechanical skills of a turtle and even less aptitude for that kind of problem solving. My first creative ambition was inspired by the