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Listening is a skill, just like learning to play an instrument. It develops with practice, patience, and curiosity. The reward is more of those spine-tingling moments that make us fall in love with music.

Each series offers multiple full length video sessions, plus links to performances and background material. My goal: to help you follow music as fluently as you read a book. These talks are informal, passionate journeys through music from my perspective as a composer, rather than polished produced courses. You’re “in my living room” with me as I share this music I love moving between the piano and guided listening through publicly available performances on YouTube. My goal is to avoid unnecessary jargon so that every music lover feels at ease, while still offering the depth that seasoned listeners expect in score-focused discussions.

Video Lecture library

NEW—Brahms The Perfectionist

Beethoven Piano Sonatas Pt 1

Beethoven Piano Sonatas Pt 2

Beethoven Piano Sonatas Pt 3

Music: The First Five Seconds

Bach, Handel, and a Perfect Universe

The Piano Concerto—9 Sessions

Classical Vienna—8 Sessions

The Romantic Composers—8 Sessions

The Late Romantics—8 Sessions

Bartok-Ligeti—8 Sessions

String Quartet Pt 1—9 Sessions

String Quartet Pt 2—8 Sessions

19th Century Artsong—8 Sessions

Secrets of Music Theory—9 Sessions

COMING SOON

Audio Lecture library

mp3 Audio—each series includes 8 or more full length talks

Mahler's Symphonic World Pt 1—8 Sessions

Mahler's Symphonic World Pt 2—8 Sessions

Shostakovich and Prokofiev: Art and Legacy—8 Sessions

1000 Years of Western Music—Backwards!—19 Sessions

SINGLE LECTURES (Audio)

Schubert the Songmaster

Mahler Symphony No. 1

Mahler Symphony No. 5

ABOUT THESE LECTURES

Each title includes access to all sessions and supplemental materials from the original lecture series. You will feel like you’re in the class.

Yes, I was deeply influenced by Leonard Bernstein’s remarkable music lectures. My style is far more informal and personal. I know my participants are intelligent and deeply desire to understand music better, without too much jargon or just strings of entertaining anecdotes. As a composer, I DIG IN to the “bones” of the music itself. I break down specific passages on the piano. I offer active commentary on recordings. I engage participants in the exciting ideas that fuel musical narratives. Disclaimer: I am not a musicologist! I do provide some historical context, but I’m more a musical “detective” who takes you on journeys to discover why a piece of music is so emotionally satisfying (or not!). You will notice in these talks that everyone is engaged and enjoying time together to deepen their listening skills. Please email me if you find any of these titles helping you to enjoy classical music on a whole new level!

What People Say

You expand horizons with such class, such kindness and warmth, together with a great sense of humor and clear love for what you do. You have created an amazing group, and I feel blessed and privileged to be part of it. You feed not only my mind but my soul.
Patricia Morgan

I used to blame the music - it was intentionally trying to leave me behind (and succeeding). Now I realize that I was listening to the wrong language.
Kathleen Kiefer

Tonight's journey thru Mozart opened up my brane in a couple of important respects…Your coda at the end, in laying out insight about classic and romantic music and Mozart's intensity and complexity, are exactly the kind of stuff I was hoping to glean from these sessions!
Michael Morrison

Quick note to tell you YOU REALLY DELIVERED on your promise to make music theory interesting! I’m excited and looking forward to next week. What an original approach to music theory!
Linda Danly

A vibrant and oh so intelligent presentation.
Olin Sherrod

I can’t tell you how much this course has meant to me… Even the simplest little tune has taken on new meaning. I have so much to learn and despite my frustrations I am loving every minute of my musical journey…I've "listened" to music all my life and only now really realize how little I've actually heard.
Dorothy Collins

It would be hard for me to put in words the gratitude and excitement I feel having been a student of yours for the past some years. I suddenly began to understand the mystery of classical (and other) music. Something that has all my life intrigued me but never had the person to take me on the journey to delve into the secrets. It has been extraordinary.
Diana Friedberg

I was impressed and touched by your sensitive approach and depiction of Schubert's life and work, particularly by your step-by-step explanation of the marvelous Schubert harmonies, seemingly simple at first hearing, but in reality highly sophisticated , novel and touching.
Volker Anding

Being a newbie to classical music but loving other kinds of music my whole life I feel like a whole new world has opened up for me. I so appreciate all the education you’ve given me on how to listen to music as well as all the incredible musical pieces and composers you have exposed me to.
Eve Miller