On Deck in May

Now that this year's classroom teaching is over, I've still got over a month of private teaching left in the RCM spring semester, as well as some time to spend on a few upcoming review projects.

First of all, I'm reading Susan Tomes' Out of Silence: A Pianist's Yearbook, a year's worth of observations on the pianistic life. This morning I also had a first listen to Julia Fischer and Martin Helmchen's Schubert: Complete Works for Violin and Piano, Vol. 2, in which Julia Fischer appears as both violinist (in the Grand Duo and C major Fantasie)  and duo pianist (in the F minor Fantasie). And today I received a promotional copy of Artists of the Royal Conservatory's Two Roads to Exile. Tomorrow I'm off to the CD launch event of Two Roads at the RCM's Conservatory Theatre, courtesy of an invite from Sony (thanks, Nader!). Stay tuned...