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March 23, 2025⚡️ Reflections on "Dynamics"
March 16, 2025📖 Improving Motivation Through Smarter Practice
March 9, 2025🪱 Reflections on "Structure": Music, Soil, Spring Break, and Practice
March 4, 2025🎶 The Power of Variable Practice
February 16, 2025🔄 The Power of Ritual: How to Build Momentum in Practice
February 10, 2025The Practice Technique That Saved My Recital Prep 🎯
February 2, 2025A Surprising Lesson From 10,000 Hours of Practice ⏳
January 13, 2025Easing Back Into Practice: Taking My Own Advice 🛠️
January 5, 2025AAAAND the Winner is.. Most Popular Video of 2024! 🥁
December 30, 2024How Music Transcends Time and Place: A Holiday Reflection 🎶
December 22, 2024Wrapping Up Another Semester 🎁
December 8, 2024Reading "A Midsummer Night's Dream" 🎭
November 25, 2024Turning Pages, Hands-Free 👀
November 11, 2024The Myth of the Tortured Artist 🎭
November 4, 2024Finding Magic in a Forgotten Score ✨
October 27, 2024Happy Birthday, Franz Liszt! 🎂
October 21, 2024Happy Birthday, Charles Ives! 🥳
October 14, 2024Reflections on Musical Lineage, Mentorship and Teaching 🌱
October 6, 2024New Music, Old Lessons 🎶
September 29, 2024The Performance I Needed This Week 🎻🎹
September 23, 2024Music, Visual Art, and a Surprise Visit 🖼️
September 15, 2024This Question Made Me Think 🤔
September 8, 2024Update on St. Louis, and upcoming events 📆
September 2, 2024A Lost Sonata and the Legacy of Fanny Mendelssohn 🎹
August 25, 2024📆 New Semester, New Possibilities – What’s on YOUR Horizon?
July 7, 2024Practicing as a Work in Progress 🎹
June 24, 2024On Letting Go and Making Space for the New 🎹
June 16, 2024From Tears to Triumph: Celebrating Small Wins 🏅
June 9, 2024 ⏳ The Power of "Not Yet"
June 2, 2024📈 Why you should document your practice
May 26, 2024Notes from the Piano Prof - Summer Edition! 😎
May 19, 2024Notes from the Piano Prof - Commencement Edition! 🎓
May 5, 2024🌓 Notes from the Piano Prof - the (belated) Eclipse Edition!
March 28, 2024🍎 How to Find a Piano Teacher
March 14, 2024🩵 On Performing Rhapsody in Blue
February 22, 2024Has a performance ever moved you to tears?
February 9, 2024🏆 The benefits of having a performance goal
February 2, 2024The Infinite Shining Heavens ✨
November 20, 2023🥳 On Reaching 10,000
November 9, 2023Are You a Pianist 🎹 or a Musician 🎶?
October 27, 2023🎶 Rethinking the Canon
October 11, 2023✋✋A fun recital format!
September 20, 2023How I Fit in My Practice Time ⏰
September 13, 2023It Was Time for a Refresh...
July 19, 2023How I Handle Nervousness 😬
July 6, 20234 Takeaways from Teaching in Greece
June 28, 2023Remembering Pepper 🐾
June 21, 2023In Praise of Summer ⛱️
April 21, 2023Has Playing the Piano Changed Your Life?
April 13, 2023Honest vs. Careless Mistakes
December 23, 2022On Music, Nature and Culture

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