Lectures and Workshops
participants react:
“Fabulous lecture/topic with a truly innovative and engaging format.”
“Thought provoking- I will be thinking about this for a long time!”
(Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center Grand Rounds, 2025)
“This has got to be the best session I've ever been to in all my years of conferences.”
“This was fantastic. Probably one of the best I've been to. Very creative.”
(AIMW24 Keynote, 2024)
Interactive Workshops:
How to Handle Stage Fright: Practical Tips for Harnessing Performance Anxiety
Movement and Awareness: Exercises based on principles of Alexander Technique
How to Love Practicing Practical tips and mindsets for joyful, effective musical practice
Musical Mapping and other practical applications of music theory (even for beginners)
Traditional Masterclasses in solo and chamber music for any instrument or voice
Lectures:
Focus Strategies from a Concert Pianist practical steps to reclaim your concentration and stay motivated
Practice Medicine Like a Concert Pianist collaborative lecture with Sonya Del Tredici M.D.
Bravura: A Musicological Detective Story Uncovering the Music of a Genius
HOW TO HANDLE STAGE FRIGHT
We’ve evolved our stress responses so we can survive meeting a bear in the wild…but onstage there is no bear! Here are practical strategies for increasing resilience, coping with anxiety, and performing with confidence, in any field or situation.
This interactive workshop is based on courses I’ve taught at Gettysburg College and Interlochen Arts Camp.
FOCUS STRATEGIES FROM A CONCERT PIANIST
Working on a big, complicated, difficult project? Working by yourself? Here are practical steps to reclaim your concentration and stay motivated, including simple tools to stay focused and find joy in the nitty-gritty.
PRACTICE MEDICINE LIKE A CONCERT PIANIST: IMPROVING YOUR SKILLS ONSTAGE AND OFFSTAGE
Collaborative lecture with Sonya Del Tredici MD on deliberate practice strategies for doctors and med school students
BRAVURA: A Musicological Detective Story Uncovering the Music of a Genius Woman Composer
You can be one of the first people in the world to hear the story and extraordinary music of genius composer Agnes Tyrrell. She overcame adversity to write beautiful, inventive music that is full of passion and mirth, and now it is finally coming to light. Explore the excavation of sound and story from silent manuscripts in a spirit of radical optimism: this music proves that what is possible has always been more than we can imagine.
