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 study piano with professors Yu Chun-Yee, Kendall Taylor, John Barstow and Benjamin Kaplan. I have given numerous solo, vocal and chamber concerts and lecture-recitals, including several for the Beethoven Piano Society of Europe featuring piano duets, Lieder, and duo, trio or quartets for strings and piano. I participated in the BPSE ‘Beethoven 250’ sonata cycle in 2020 and recently performed in a lecture-recital connected with the publication of my book Boundaries, Space and Register in Beethoven's Piano Music, joined by the pianist Julian Jacobson, BPSE Chairman. 


I have also performed regularly with singers, in themed programmes such as 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 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. Other vocal collaborations have centred on bringing unfamiliar songs before new audiences. In November 2025 I gave a lecture-recital at the Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience at UCLA, a book launch for Classical and Popular Music in Israel: Transcultural Dialogues and Contrasts. I performed solo works by Paul Ben-Haim and Josef Tal, and accompanied mezzo-soprano Iris Malkin in songs by Yehezkel Braun and Menachem Wiesenberg, alongside her American premiere with Neal Stulberg of songs from Oded Zehavi's Resonating Voices. 


Other lecture-recitals have likewise combined performance with historical and cultural introduction. For repertoire still insufficiently represented in mainstream concert programmes, explanation supplies context while the music itself remains at the centre.

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.