Dec 10th, 2009
I was a student when I was first invited to play with this very unique group, based in Brantford but made up of a diverse bunch of musicians from all over Southern Ontario. Now I look forward to playing a couple of Welcome Yule concerts every Christmas season, catching up with the others, and [...]
A year and a half ago, I was sitting in my music studio (which was at that point just a dark corner of the basement with a water softener, a keyboard, and a computer) and puzzling over this project that I had gotten myself into. My sister, Rachel, wanted to make a film involving [...]
Aug 24th, 2009
An interesting take on Wagner’s skill.
Jul 23rd, 2009
Starting on Monday, I will be a participant in the Elora Festival Academy of Music.
I am proud to announce the inaugural year of the Elora Festival Academy of Music, an exciting educational off-shoot of the Elora Festival. The Academy is a five-day residential programme for senior undergrad and post-graduate music students - young advanced, pre-professional [...]
Jul 8th, 2009
from Malcolm Gladwell’s “Blink”:
Spontaneity isn’t random. …. How good people’s decisions are under the fast-moving, high-stress conditions of rapid cognition is a function of training and rules and rehearsal.
One of the most important of the rules that make improv [theatre] possible, for example, is the idea of agreement, the notion that a very simple way [...]