June 5, 2026 (2.0 hrs)

Senior Recital Proposed Dates: Saturday, June 27th at 1:00 pm (studio rental from 12:30-2:30)

Lesson Assignments

đź’šListen to your recital performance and write down some feedback based on our lesson goals / assignments.

đź’šDvorak Quintet: sight-read

  1. Continue sight-reading after p. 9

🟪Rameau Gavotte & Six Doubles

  • See your notes.

đź’šMozart: movement I

  1. See all green pen

đź’šMozart: movement III.

  1. See all green pen

đź’šMozart: movement II.

  1. See all green pen

💛Ravel, Jeux d’Eau

  1. m. 6 - rushed

  2. mm. 29-33 - some notes in RH stick out of the texture.

  3. mm. 11-13 - don’t rush the descending 4ths and 5ths. Make the top one stand out more than the others.

  4. m. 18 - poco rit at the end of the measure. Pedaling - be award of your decisions in this musical moment in life.

  5. p. 3 - technical work

  6. p. 5 - arpeggiated sections.

  7. mm. 38-48 - technical work.

⬛️Prokofiev Sonata No. 2. IV: Vivace

  1. Focus after the recital.

🟩Chopin Ballade No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 23 - Recital

  1. Slow-mo practice.

  2. mm. 108-109, 116-117 - shape the endings of the phrases better here - slow down more - feel it more.

  3. mm. 162-165 - don’t slow down quite so much.

  4. Also do tech. work on the ascending mm. 130-137

    đź’šReview Pieces: 10 min per day. Get to a decent state. ROTATE the items below.

    1. ENGAGED SLOW-MO PRACTICE.

      1. Rachmaninoff, Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18. I. Moderato

      2. Schumann, Piano Concerto in A Minor

      3. Debussy: Etudes, Book II, No. 11, pour les Arpèges composés

      4. Chopin: Scherzo No. 2 in B-flat Minor Op. 31

      5. Liszt: 2 Études de Concert, S. 145 No. 1: Waldesrauschen (4:30)

      6. Bach, Prelude and Fugue in F Major BWV 856, Book 1

      7. Beethoven, Piano Sonata No. 13 in E-flat Major, Op. 27, No. 1. I, II

      8. Debussy, Image

  5. đź–¤Beethoven Sonata movements III and IV

  6. đź–¤Scriabin: 8 Etudes Op. 42, No. 5 in C-sharp Minor

YOUNG ARTISTS PIANO COMPETITIONShttps://crescendocompetition.org/international-competition/

Pacific Stars International Piano Competition

  1. Virtual 2024

  2. https://www.pacificstars.org/professionalwinners

  3. Won first place

Capital Philharmonic of New Jersey

  1. Video recording: Mendelssohn

Bravura 2023 Young Artists Concerto Competition

  1. Video recording: Mendelssohn

Hill Concerto Competition

Lyra (NYC DiMenna Center)

Portugal

Music Teachers National Association (Senior)

  1. 2024

Nazareth University Competition

  1. 2024

The Claudette Sorel Piano Competition & Piano Fellows Program

  1. 2024

New York International Piano Competition (June 2026)

  1. https://thenyipc.org/competition/

Interlochen Summer: June 17-23 (confirmed

  1. All five 2023 recital pieces

NOPI: July 15th

  1. Mendelssohn

2023 Radda Rise International Piano Competitio

  1. Participated

Bohemians Young Artists Piano Competition

  1. Received Honorable Mention

2021 Radda Rise International Piano Competition

  1. 2nd Place in Division 2: October 5, 2021

New Orleans Virtual International Competition

  1. Submitted. Results announced.

CONCERTI

  1. Haydn

    1. Piano Concerto in D Major, Hob:XVIII:11

      • Movement 3: Rondo all’Ungarese: Allegro assai

  2. Mendelssohn:

    1. Concert No. 2 in D Minor, (Movement 3)

BAROQUE

  1. Händel

    1. Chaconne in G Major, HVB 435

  2. Johan Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

    1. Prelude and Fugue No. ? In C Minor

    2. Prelude and Fugue No. 11 in F Major, BWV 856 (L. 10, A)

    3. French Suite No. 4 in E-flat Major BWV 815 (L. 7, A)

      1. Allemande (L. 7, A)

      2. Gigue (L. 7, A)

    4. Invention No. 4 in D Minor, BWV 775

    5. Invention No. 8 in F Major, BWV 779

    6. Invention No. 12 in A Major, BWV 783 (L. 8, A)

    7. Invention No. 15 in B Minor, BWV 786 (L. 8, A)

    8. Sinfonia No. 8 in F Major, BWV 794 (L. 9, A)

  3. Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)

    1. Sonata in E Major, K 531 (L. 8, A)

    2. Sonata in G Major L 487, Domenico Scarlatti (L. 9, A)

CLASSICAL

  1. L. V. Beethoven (1770-1827)

    1. Sonata Op. 10 No. 1 in C Minor (No. 5)

      1. Complete

    2. Sonata Op. 10 No. 2 in F Major (No. 6) (L. 10, B)

      1. I. Allegro

    3. Sonata in G Minor, op. 49, no. 1 (L. 8, B)

    4. Sonata in G Major Op 49 No. 2 (L. 8, B)

  2. Muzio Clementi ()

    1. Six Sonatinas, Op. 36

      1. Complete

  3. Haydn

    1. Piano Sonata, No. 53 in E Minor, Hob. XVI:34 (L. 9-B)

      1. III: Presto

    2. Piano Sonata, No. 59 in E-flat Major Hob. XVI:49:

      1. I: Allegro

  4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

    1. Sonata in C Major, K 545, Allegro (L. 8, B)

      1. One movement

ROMANTIC

  1. Johann Friedrich Franz BurgmĂĽller (1806-1874)

    1. The Storm Op. 109 No. 13 (L. 8, Etude)

  2. Frederic Chopin (1810-1849)

    1. Chopin: Etude in A-flat Major, Op. 10 No. 10

    2. Valse Op 69 No. 1 (L. 8, C)

    3. Waltz Op. 69 No. 2 in B minor (L. 8, C)

    4. Waltz in F Major Op. 34 No. 3

    5. Nocturne in B-flat Minor, Op. 9 No. 1

    6. Prelude Op. 28 No. 8 & 10

  3. Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)

    1. Humoreske in C Major Op. 6 No. 3 (L. 8, C)

    2. Notturno, Op. 54 No. 4

  4. Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)

    1. Gondellied (Barcarole) in A Major (L. 8, C)

  5. Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)

    1. Etude Tableaux, Op. 33 No. 7 in G Minor

    2. Prelude op. 23 no. 4 in D Major

    3. Prelude op. 23 no. 5 in G Minor

  6. Robert Schumann (1810-1856)

    1. Album fĂĽr die Jugend, Op. 68 No. 12 Knecht Rubrecht (L. 8, C)

IMPRESSIONISTIC / POST-ROMANTIC

  1. Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

    1. Images: Livre I

      1. Reflets dans l’eau

    2. Children’s Corner:

      1. Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum (L. 10, D)

      2. The Little Shepherd (L. 8, D)

    3. Page d’Album (L. 8, D)

    4. Préludes, Book 2, L. 123

      1. 5, Bruyères

      2. 6. “General Lavine” - eccentric

  2. Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)

    1. Improvisation in C-sharp minor Op. 84 No. 5 from Huit Pièces Brèves (L. 9 Etude)

    2. Barcarolle Op. 26 No. 1 in A Minor

  3. Maurice Ravel (1875-1737)

    1. Prelude in A Minor (L. 8, D)

  4. Alexander Scriabin ()

    1. Twenty-Four Preludes, Op. 11 No. 22 by (L. 8, D)

  5. Sergei Prokofiev ()

    1. Op. 65

      1. No. 6 Waltz (L. 7: C)

      2. No. 12

MODERN / 21st CENTURY

“Sightreading Pieces” in you Newzik. DAIL

  1. đź’šGreat American Songbook: left off on page 32

    1. Listen to each song you read on Spotify and become familiar with the tune so you can play it better for the solo piano version.

    2. Ella Fitzgerald is a good reference for jazz standards

  1. đź–¤Beethoven Piano Sonatas (paused at op. 27 no. 1)

  2. đź–¤Brahms Piano Works (Paused at p. 12)

  3. Bach, 15 Inventions (completed 2023)

  4. Shostakovich, Children’s and Easy Pieces, Op. 69 (finished March, 2023)

  5. Tchaikovsky, Album for the Young, op. 39 (finished November 3, 2022)

  6. Grieg Lyric Pieces in Newzik (op. 54) (finished August 2022)

2024 Final Recital8

2023 Final Recital

  1. 1:00 pm

    1. Gershwin

    2. Debussy, Reflets dans l’eau

    3. Handel (5:50)

  2. 3:00 pm

    1. Haydn (6:00)

    2. Rachmaninoff (4:23