I am eager to offer suggestions and tips for developing composers who are interested in improving their scores for solo voice and piano.

Participants who have existing, fully notated song scores utilizing traditional notation should simply send me PDF scores for my review/critique. Each session will be centered around improving your scores.

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Score Review – $15
Submit 1 or more scores up to 6-8 minutes total duration.

Please inquire about submitting scores with a total duration that exceeds the above maximum duration.

Those submitting scores should expect feedback on:

The application of basic musical grammar and the best practices for musical notation in your score(s), the idiomatic quality of your writing for voice (including prosody), and piano accompaniment.

Please inquire about scores that utilize instruments other than piano.

Composing polished, effective, and professional-looking piano music can be a difficult challenge, especially for those who have acquired only limited skills at the piano. I offer feedback in virtual, 1-on-1 sessions as often or as little as you'd like. If you have existing piano works, I would be delighted to help improve the quality of your piano scores, acting as a second pair of eyes.

My goal is to aid you in producing

professional-looking, fully-notated,

and idiomatic:

-piano solos,

-piano accompaniments

 for instrumental solos,

-piano accompaniments

 for choral works,

-piano parts in ensembles

 (large or small),

-piano reductions,

- piano rehearsal scores,

-or piano accompaniments

 for vocal solo music.

Once I have reviewed your music, we can meet in a 30 min. Zoom session to discuss tips  and suggestions.

Score Review – $15
Submit only 1 or more scores up to 10 minutes total duration.

Please inquire about submitting scores with a total duration that exceeds the above maximum duration.

Those submitting scores should expect feedback on:

The application of basic musical grammar and the best practices for musical notation in your score(s). Idiomatic quality of the writing for piano.

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THERE IS NO FEE FOR COACHING SESSIONS OF MY MUSIC

(If you are a pianist competing in the Janice Kay Hodges Contemporary Piano Competition, I am unavailable for coaching my Three American Bagatelles)

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I have been fortunate to have had my piano music and art songs performed in competitions, auditions, recitals, recording projects... I am eager to meet with you in a 30 minute Zoom session as you are preparing one or more of my compositions for performance. Simply request a time and I will offer you insights into the piece as well as any suggestions on the interpretation of the work(s).​

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if you are a studio teacher interested in having a discussion about  any aspects of my piano music and/or art songs, I am very eager to schedule a meeting via Zoom to answer any questions.

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PIANO MUSIC

Two Lyrical Sketches for the Young

Sonatina No. 1 (To Joseph Bologne)

Lyrical Sketchbook  (14 Easy Pieces)

Three Lyrical Duets for piano, 4-hands

Two Canzonas

Four American Canvas Sketches 

Three American Bagatelles 

Three Inventions 

Two Nocturnes

Toccata

Sonatina No. 2

Piano Sonata

Fantasia & Allegro Ostinato

Three Preludes

Ayre in Antique Style

Lyrical Etude in C

Three Epigraphs 

Four Short Waltzes

Shades & Hues, Book 1 (1-7) 

Shades & Hues, Book 2 (8-14)

Five Pages From a City Journal 

Prologue in Two Pages

Lyric Cartography

Piano Trio

Piano Quartet 

Piano Concerto, 2-piano version

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ART SONGS

An Hymn to the Evening 

​April Rain Song 

Belle Gunness 

Central Park at Dusk 

Departing Summer 

Eldorado 

Four Epitaphs 

God Bless Our Native Land 

If You Should Go 

Owed to New York

Pictures of the Floating World 

Roses 

Sea Gypsy 

Three Poems of E. Dickinson

Three Poems of W.C. Williams

Two Lullabies 

Two Parables from "The Madman" 

Two Poems of Amy Lowell

Two Poems of Emma Lazarus

Two Poems of G.D. Johnson

Two Poems of H. Livingston Jr.

Two Poems of J.W. Johnson

Two Poems of J.R. Fauset

Two Poems of Native American Poets 

Two Poems of Sara Teasdale

Two Psalms 

Two Songs for Children 

Two Songs of the American Countryside

Two Songs of the American South

Velvet Shoes

Zalka Peetruza

Les Chanson pour “Laurent”

 (3 French language songs)

A Ceremony of Songs /Spring

Drifting Flowers of the Sea 

Two Poems of R.W. Emerson

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I am currently curating courses that will be available via OUTSCHOOL, PREPLY, and similar platforms ASAP!