I arrived in Paris Tuesday afternoon and was greeted by a plate of French fromage, a glass of red wine, and a concert proposition! I'm thrilled: I'll be playing a private concert with a dear friend and excellent clarinetist, Andrea Vos-Rochefort, with whom I worked when I was student here several years ago.

Though the event is private this time around, I'm hoping there will be future occasions for Andrea and me to play together in New York or Los Angeles. Can't wait!

More Parisian adventures to come in the next seven weeks: stay tuned!

Greetings from Leicester, Vermont, where the air is clean, the music is new, and the spiders are the size of my palm! I'm a participant and staff accompanist at the New Music on the Point Festival from June 2-17. The first half week has not only been a musical success, it's been a blast! I played Joan Tower's solo piano pieces Ivory and Ebony and Steps in a concert last night, and next week I'll be performing  new chamber music works by the New Music on the Point (NMOP) student composers. I've been working closely with the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) to prepare for upcoming performances - it's been an exhausting five days, but I'm looking forward to continuing for another week!