Performer

Pianist, accompanist and chamber musician

I have performed throughout my career as a pianist, in solo recitals, with singers and in chamber ensembles. My programmes have ranged from Mozart and Beethoven to Delius, Wagner, Jewish music and contemporary repertoire. I have appeared for music societies and concert series in London and elsewhere, including concerts at St James's Piccadilly and St Martin-in-the-Fields. These performances have taken several forms: conventional recitals, song programmes, chamber concerts, lecture-recitals and events in which performance forms part of a wider historical or analytical presentation.

I have been fortunate to have studied piano with professors Yu Chun-Yee, Kendall Taylor, John Barstow and Benjamin Kaplan. I have given numerous concerts and lecture-recitals, including several for the Beethoven Piano Society of Europe, solo, vocal and chamber. Recent events have included a lecture-recital connected with the publication of my book Boundaries, Space and Register in Beethoven's Piano Music, in which Julian Jacobson joined me to perform and discuss works. In the past concerts of Beethoven’s chamber works coupled with other composers.

I have also performed regularly with singers and have given several recitals devoted to Wagner's songs with different artists. In 2008 I accompanied the late South African-born dramatic soprano Elizabeth Connell in the opening recital of a new monthly series of vocal and chamber music at the Foundling Museum. The programme brought together Beethoven's rarely heard Goethe settings, Op. 83; settings of Goethe's Gretchen by Schubert and Wagner; three early Wagner songs to French texts; and the Wesendonck Lieder. In Musical Opinion, Robert Matthew-Walker praised Connell's "complete grasp of the Wagnerian idiom". During the Wagner bicentenary in 2013, I gave a further Wagner song recital at a Leeds University conference for the Wagner bicentenary. Other vocal collaborations have centred on Jewish and Israeli repertoire, bringing unfamiliar songs before new audiences. In November 2025 I gave a talk and recital at UCLA for the Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience and the Department of Musicology. The event launched Classical and Popular Music in Israel: Transcultural Dialogues and Contrasts. I performed with mezzo-soprano Iris Malkin in songs by Yehezkel Braun and in the American premiere of songs from Oded Zehavi's Resonating Voices, as well as playing solo works by Paul Ben-Haim and Josef Tal. The event brought together several aspects of my work—as editor, lecturer, researcher, accompanist and solo pianist—within a single programme.

My lecture-recitals for the Jewish Music Institute have likewise combined performance with historical and cultural introduction. They have included programmes devoted to Jewish composers, Israeli music and the shofar, involving singers and instrumentalists as well as solo piano music. For repertoire still insufficiently represented in mainstream concert programmes, explanation supplies context while the music itself remains at the centre.