A wonderful way to end the year, what started off as our idea of 'Trout at The Church' became the concert 'Ambient Delights', its first performance on December 14 2025 as part of the Phoenix Central Park series at The Church. A fabulous group of musicians and people to work with, I was lucky to bring together for this project Dan Lopez (violin), Eleanor Streatfeild (cello), Luke Spicer (viola), Andrew Meisel (double bass) and composer/live electronics performer Mark Oliveiro

My Studio was welcomed back to the marvellous local venue of The Church in Alexandria for our 2025 Student Concert. Held in November, this year the event was scheduled before the flurry of end of year activities. I accompanied two talented AMusA level cello students who added their performances to our program, one from the studio of Eleanor Streatfeild, and the other from the studio of Jack Ward. My piano students performances ranged from a first performance from a 6 year old

For 2025, one of my DeClassified Music projects has been to perform in recital with a violinist for my program Lyrical Masterpieces. These concerts for 2025 are being presented by Musica Viva - for the New South Wales regional performances - and by Master Music Studio for the Sydney recital. Earlier in the year, the first performances of the program were with Kristian Winther for audiences in Grafton and Coffs Harbour. In June, I performed the program with Doretta Balkizas at

I have always enjoyed taking on different and diverse musical projects. In the second week of January, I was invited to perform the piano part for George Ellis' new music for the film 'The Traveller' being directed by Bruce Beresford. image taken by Dan Lopez Recorded at Trackdown in the Entertainment Quarter at Moore Park, it was fun to be part of something like this, especially as it was so extremely well organised and tightly planned. George Ellis conducted his score, and

My second Student Piano Concert for 2024 was held locally at The Church, allowing my studio of young local musicians to enjoy performing in this beautiful venue and on the superb Fazioli pianos. We were so thankful for this opportunity! Scheduled three days before Christmas, it was a terrific way to finish the year before the long January break, and three o f Eleanor Streatfeild's   cello students joined us to provide some variety to the otherwise all piano program. I like to

My last year at Melbourne's Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) was nearly 20 years ago...! It was time to reminisce recently...

It was a wonderful feeling to perform Grand Duet: Windows into contrasting worlds in Melbourne on the weekend (August 31). A DeClassifed Music project, the program was a cello and piano recital which indeed offered contrasting windows into the captivating worlds of commanding composers who are not heard enough: Rita Strohl and Nadia Boulanger from France, and Galina Ustvolskaya from Soviet Russia. Cellist  Christopher Pidcock and I started with Strohl's ‘Dramatic Sonata’, ke