New Music/ Contemporary Classical Improvisation

Boston Woods Improvisations
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Boston Woods is a composite sound painting of my many walks in the large conservation areas preserved by the Audubon Society near my house. In the woods, I see life as it really is- a continuously changing painting.

Improvisation on Creole Dance Alberto Ginastera
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The Creole Dance, no, 3 from Twelve American Dances by the great Argentinian Composer, Alberto Ginastera is inspired by the original score.

Snowflakkes
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Snowflakkes is not a based on a written score. It depicts nature in all its ever-changing majesty as a snowflake- sudden and fleeting.

Shostakovich Children's March Theme and Improvisations
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The Shostakovich Children’s March is a well-known student composition and ripe with improvisational ideas.

Songs for Jerry Ned Rorem- Theme and Improvisation
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Song for Jerry is from Ned Rorem’s Six Friends. I have been greatly influenced by Ned’s books: Pure Contraption, a Composer’s Essays, and Setting the Tone, Essays and a Diary.

Ivan Sings Improvisations Aram Khachaturian
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Ivan Sings by the Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian, is another well-known student piece, and strong seed for new musical ideas.

Chopin Mazurka in F Major, Op. 68, No 3 Theme and Improvisations
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Chopin Prelude in C Minor Op. 28, No. 20 Theme and Improvisations
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The Chopin Mazurka in F Major and Prelude in C Minor are well-known. I depart from the original tonality of the works to sculpt my original musical ideas.

Double Kab -Improvised coupling of Kablevsky's Sonatina opus 27, no.11 and the Toccatina, opus 27
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Double Kab are improvisations on two student pieces of Dmitri Kabelesvsky: the Sonatina opus 27, no.11 and the Toccatina, Opus 27 no.12. I go back and forth during the recording improvising on both compositions.

Metamorphosis 1 Phillip Glass Theme and Improvisations
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Metamorphosis 1 is a haunting composition by Phillip Glass which I find leads to expansive musical improvisation. I begin with the opening theme and expand it with the same tenor as the original composition.

My modern classical piano improvisations are influenced by contemporary classical composers: Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Phillip Glass, Alberto Ginastera, Ned Rorem, Dmitri Kabelevsky, as well as classical composers such as
J.S. Bach, George Frederick Handel, and Frederick Chopin. I improvise generally on full musical scores, unlike other piano improvisers who use lead sheets. I use modern contemporary sounding chords and musical rhythms.

I am a contemporary classical improvisational pianist.

This has a profound effect on my improv- blending various musical genres into one musical genre. New Music improv.