- written on a train headed back to Oslo from Bergen - Wow.  What a trip.  I seem to start every post with version of "wow," but with scenery like you see in...

8:19 pm, the day before the flight to Prague And so begins the next leg of the journey:  touring with BPYO (Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra), chaperoning...

And now for part two of the Orford experience:  l'existence bucolique. It's amazing how much of a different world one discovers just a four-hour drive from B...

Part I:  Compassion : Patience : Musicianship For two weeks in June from the 15 - 28, by recommendation of my teacher, I attended the octet seminar.  There w...

from left to right:  Brendan O'Donnell (violin), Breanna Ellison (horn), Yannick Rafalimanana (piano) Ligeti.  Ooooh, Ligeti.  You sly, sly composer, you.  P...