Concert Organist.

I did not learn from a teacher. I learned the way you learn things when no teacher is available and the instrument is just there: by trying things until they worked, by repeating a phrase until it felt right.

The piano came first. Then, at Amherst, the organ, an instrument of a different order. I learned to play it there, formally for the first time, in a setting that forces precision: real pipes, real acoustics, no forgiveness for approximation. Where the piano speaks in moments, the organ sustains. It does not let go. I have always believed that sound can carry what language cannot — and the organ, more than any instrument, made me feel the truth of it.

I continue to perform. Recordings and performance notes will live here as they become available.