December 14-17 - Yale University - Piano Duo Filming

Although these performances were not necessarily "live in concert," they were filmed for eventual viewing on our websites and YouTube. With any luck, they will be edited and on the web by February!

Liz (my piano duo partner) joined me in New Haven, and we spent four jam-packed days filming in various locations around Yale University. 17 minutes of music netted over six cassette tapes of footage and two very exhausted pianists. Much like a recording session, filming sessions can be extremely demanding. In a live performance, you play the piece once; extreme focus and concentration are required, but I find that can I feed off the energy of the audience. With a recording, you've got to recreated the energy of a live performance without the audience there - it's sometimes very difficult to do! Plus, you've got to run through the piece over and over again to get a good take! With a video recording, you've got to recreate the energy of a live setting, perform it repeatedly for a good take, *and* do it over and over again from different angles!

That's not to say we didn't have a good time! Half of the time, our exhaustion wasn't the result of the demanding nature of filming, but the result of laughing too hard for too long. It's quite possible these videos will "cross the line," and filming anything anywhere near that "line" is simply comical for Liz and I. Accordingly, we've decided to create a couple "out-take reels" to show the joy inherent in over-the-top four-hand performance.