piano lessons/accompanying in the chicago area

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I’m graduating with a BM in Piano Performance from Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music in June. I am currently working on updating my website, but feel free to check it out while it’s in the works. The page also includes a link to my LinkedIn profile.

I will be staying in Chicago for the next twelve months at least, and I’m looking for students/accompanying gigs! If you or anyone you know would like piano lessons/a pianist, please drop a message in the ol’ inbox.

I will start teaching/freelance accompanying in August.

Rates are $40 per hour, $20 per half hour (for anyone who’s wondering, as far as professional rates go, this is cheapy cheap!).

However, I am willing to negotiate for those of you with limited incomes, as I have been there, done that, and have several t-shirts. (Seriously. I clothed myself with free t-shirts for much longer than I care to admit.)

  • 19 Plays
  • Sergei Rachmaninoff: Sonata in G Minor for Cello and Piano, Op. 19 No.3 Andante (1901)Emanuel Ax, piano; Yo-Yo Ma, cello

Sergei Rachmaninoff
Sonata in G minor for Cello and Piano, Op. 19 No. 3 - III. Andante
Yo-Yo Ma, cello
Emanuel Ax, piano

  • 536 Plays
  • Lyric Pieces Book V Op54: NotturnoGrieg, Edvard (1843-1907)

sound-in-space:

Lyric Pieces Op54: Notturno —Grieg, Edvard 


So beautiful.

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Johannes Brahms
Sonata for Two Pianos in F minor, Op. 34b (Brahms’s transcription of the Piano Quintet Op. 34)I. Allegro non troppo

Martha Argerich & Lilya Zilberstein, piano
Live at the Lugano Festival

My friend and I are playing this next quarter!! SO MUCH BRAHMS <3 

So I changed my mind about opening my recital with Liszt’s Liebestod transcription. Instead, I’m playing this bad boy.

Let’s face it: Pianists are often told that the mere act of producing sound on a piano is “too easy”! It is certainly true that pianists do not have to be concerned with breathing or intonation. However, much effort is directed towards becoming physically involved with sound production. Pianists often include these aspects when discussing music. Technique study for pianists involves intense listening to enable a singing line that includes breaths in appropriate places. It includes hearing harmonies, voicing, and discriminatory listening for tone and timbre. We speak of linking notes with the fingers for the development of a seamless, supported legato. In short, we strive to hear our repertoire in a symphonic sense, borrowing generously from the language used by our fellow instrumentalists and singers.
Terence Dawson: Collaborative Piano and the developing Musician (via sonateharder)

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Sergei Rachmaninoff - Moments Musicaux Op. 16, N°3 in b minor

Vladimir Horowitz, piano

Alicia de Larrocha plays Mompou’s Impresiones intimas, Planys [Lament] I, II, III, IV

That’s it for today, folks. 

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