Boston Early Music Festival: The Paris Workshop

The Paris Workshop comes to Boston, bringing kits you can see and touch. I’ll be helping Carey Beebe run the booth Friday and Saturday, June 11 and 12. Come visit!

Our new Italian Virginal kit is a delight both as a kit and an instrument. I’ll be bringing one home for some lucky new owner.

Concert at Lucas Theatre with Baritone Keith Miller and the SCC

We very much enjoyed our week with Visiting Artist in Residence Keith Miller from the Metropolitan Opera. Keith used to be a professional football player who took up singing at the ripe old age of 28. His rapid rise to the top levels of the opera world (while staying a wonderful human being) proves once again that you can’t dream too big as long as you work hard to achieve them.

We culminated the week with a concert at the Lucas Theatre. The SCC and I joined Keith to perform two numbers at the end of his solo concert. His inspiration was clear. They were the best we’ve ever heard them. The crowd was overwhelmed and on their feet applauding wildly.

Spring Concert Season with the Savannah Children’s Choir

Weekly concerts with the Savannah Children’s Choir for our Spring tour, all over Savannah.

March 29, April 5, April 19, April 26th. Our young choir has been improving at a stunningly fast pace. I’m so proud of them!

Haptics 2009

Invited speaker at the EROI / University of Rochester Conference on Keytouch Haptics, discussing the state of key touch research for piano actions.

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Presentation on high speed video photography techniques & 18th and 19th century piano actions

On May 30, 2008, Anne gave a presentation at the annual meeting of the American Musical Instrument Society held at the Cantos Music Foundation, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada on the use of high speed video photography techniques for analysis of 18th and 19th century piano actions.