The title of this post may as well be the title of my working life. The next stop on my journey to pay the bills was a wholesale...

After my unproductive interview with the VP in charge of the Creative Division at Chappell Music, it was only a matter of time before my...

In my last semester I had gotten the name of a concert pianist/piano teacher in New York from a visiting concert pianist so I could...

And so, I began my music studies in earnest. I felt that music had chosen me by virtue of the fact that it was what kept me in school. ...

I took the intermediate piano class and started to work on improving my reading. I also started taking the other core music classes with...

At this critical juncture I either had to get my grades up or part company with plans for a college degree. If my heart isn't into...

….which is a groovy time as Jimi Hendrix put it, I was losing faith that I would ever find a major subject which would capture my...

In the Spring semester, I finally found myself starting classes on the campus of one of the more affordable state universities without a...

Okay, so it's now seven years later. I had moved out of my home a year earlier and gone to live with a friend to avoid collateral damage...

Piano Wars! The evolution of my career in music has been anything but typical. I find myself constantly interacting with other musicians...