MUSIC DREAMS
Music is for dreaming, feeling and joy!
My Story
I started taking piano lessons when I was 9 years old from an extraordinary teacher who happened to live across the street!
What was extraordinary is that she studied with the late Raymund Mauro, a student of Cortot and Casadesus, and the late Madame Avis Bliven Charbonnel of Providence, a pupil of Leschetisky in Vienna. If this sounds fancy it is! Imagine having a teacher of this brilliance in your backyard! I didn't fully appreciate this fact until I went to the Boston Conservatory of Music as a piano major and realized that my preparation was unparalleled to many. But oh... if I only practiced more growing up!
I loved teaching children and became a strong advocate for quality arts education in our schools. Before my retirement in 2012, my focus was to bring the arts to as many children in the community through in-school and after-school programs
I felt as if I was gliding among the clouds with my eyes closed enveloped by sounds that were calming, uplifting, exciting, and sublime without words. That's when I started improvising on the piano and like my dream... I could do this with my eyes closed not thinking of key, meter, or tempo. Usually, you can't replicate your dreams, but I did... the music was there and it needed to get out.
I started composing in 2016 and haven't stopped. I hope you enjoy my pieces as much as I do to create them.
A chill moment!
My latest video... original score
for flute and piano
I am very proud of my accomplishments and fortunate to have these opportunities during my career.
Fast forward through a failed marriage, single motherhood, and trying to make ends meet as the primary breadwinner. I continued teaching piano lessons privately and became a full-time classroom music teacher in the public schools.
But like many creative people, I was starving for something new. I literally was having dreams of playing the piano without mistakes... just playing on and on! These were beautiful dreams.
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