Debussy Piano + Film Site

I am really pleased to be added to the roster of Steinway Artists!

http://steinway.com/artists/solo/t

The Scarlatti, Mozart, Brahms CD is available on iTunes and Amazon.

I will perform in Zurich November 20th at 7:30PM at Lindengarten, next to the Kunsthaus, an all-Debussy program with video and my film in honor of his 150th birthday. November 25th at 5PM I will perform at Kulturplatz Wetzikon the Mozart a minor Sonata, the Chopin c# minor Nocturne, Opus Posthumous a minor Mazurka, Revolultionary Etude, Brahms Opus 117, and the Mendelssohn e minor Prelude and Fugue Opus 35.

I returned last week from my concerts in Wetzikon and Arosa. I also brought back some of the Debussy CD’s I made last December. You can hear a couple of the pieces from the session on YouTube:

The Fairies are Exquisite Dancers

The Wind on the Plain

The CD includes:

Clair de Lune
Le vent dans la plaine
Des pas sur la neige
Ondine
Brouillards
Canope
“Général Lavine”—eccentric
La fille aux cheveux de lin
Les fées sont d’exquises danseuses
Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l’air du soir”
Les Soirs illuminés par l’ardeur du charbon
Feux d’artifice
La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune
Hommage à S. Pickwick Esg. P.P.M.P.C
La Cathédrale engloutie
Pagodes

The CD is for sale at Jecklin Music in Zurich and Alhambra Music in Lugano. I will put it on Amazon and iTunes but for now you can order it from me directly with a credit card at the link below. For delievery in the US the price is $20 including tax. For delievery in Europe the price is $26 USD. The PayPal page seems to only accept USD amounts.  Make sure that you give me the correct mailing address as well.

December 28-29 I will record a Debussy CD outside Zurich!  I am very excited.

G.Henle publishers will show part of the Debussy Film in their booth at the Frankfurt Musik Messe March 21-24, I am very pleased they are interested in the film!

I will also present the Debussy film and a lecture with noted Debussy scholar Paul Roberts during the Brown Symposium at Southwestern University in Georgetown TX June 1st.

The CD program will be:

Préludes Book I

Le vent dans la plaine

“Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l’air du soir”

Des pas sur la neige

La fille aux cheveux de lin

La Cathédrale engloutie

Préludes Book II

Brouillards

“Les fées sont d’exquises danseuses

“Général Lavine”—eccentric

La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune

Ondine

Hommage à S. Pickwick Esg. P.P.M.P.C

Canope

Feux d’artifice

Other Pieces:

Clair de Lune

Reflet dans l’eau

Pagodes

Les Soirs illuminés par l’ardeur du charbon

I made the outline of my presentation for the EPTA program book:

Work is progressing on the Duo piano violin concerts and my presentation at EPTA Nunspeet. I am making some new videos but thought I would post this performance with video from June 2011 in Wetzikon.

I have been invited to give a lecture, performance and video presentation at the November 2011 conference of the European Piano Teachers Association in Nunspeet, Netherlands. I am really looking forward to meeting everyone and presenting visual aspects of Debussy’s piano music.  I am eager to enter a dialog with people about “The Visual” in Debussy. Contact me if you have any ideas.

My performances in Switzerland went very well. The second half of the program was Debussy with selected videos as I have previously performed in The Netherlands and at Texas A&M International University. I posted Pagodes from the performance, and Brouilliards and The Fairies are Exquisite Dancers from rehearsal.

Last Thursday I played for the Central Presbyterian Church Noontime Concert Series in Downtown Austin.

The next day I was supposed to fly to Tokyo.

I am so sad I could not go but much sadder for the people of Japan. In the meantime I uploaded the introduction for my Manfred Bleffert on Debussy film:

I am inspired to narrate the new Debussy Film this week. I am finally ready to be in front of the camera!