Hello!  If you haven’t really figured it out yet, Abby and I are moving to Portland, Oregon!  We’ve been in Portland the past 6 weeks visiting, and this week we are actually moving everything there from Houston.  We are so excited about this next season in a beautiful new city.
If you are interested, you can [...]

Crater Lake - 14, originally uploaded by Behold How Free.
I’ve been posting pictures on Flickr of my summer adventures thus far, including Oregon Bach Festival and a visit to Crater Lake. Click here to see them!

I’m enjoying my time so far here in Eugene for the Oregon Bach Festival.  We just do our two performances of Haydn’s “The Creation” this week.  This was my first time to perform this work, and I have to say - it’s probably not my favorite piece of music.  The opening of the oratorio is [...]

Here’s what’s going on:
1. Singing tonight in “A Celebration of the Blues,” a collaboration of Houston Grand Opera, The Blues Society of Houston, and SugarHill Studios.  I’ve really enjoyed the music and I think it will be a great event.  It’s at 8pm at Grooves.  More info on my performances page or the Facebook event.
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I had a chance to have dinner with my friend Bruce last evening in Austin, Texas after playing piano for State Solo and Ensemble Competition at University of Texas.  I was really looking forward to spending some time with Bruce and he suggested in favorite place in Austin, Casa de Luz.  Casa de Luz is [...]

I’m leaving tomorrow morning to drive to New Orleans for the rest of the week and weekend. Opera Vista is presenting Amy Beach’s opera “Cabildo.”  The Cabildo is a real place in New Orleans and this opera is about, so it is fitting that we get to perform the opera in the real-life setting where [...]

Since Conspirare is about to hit the national PBS airwaves this month, I figured it might be a good chance to show the lighter side of our group behind the scenes.
During filming for the PBS special:

Backstage in Denmark:

Backstage in Austin:

under the watchful eye of the camera, originally uploaded by Behold How Free.
I’m currently spending a couple weeks in Austin with my musical “home away from home,” Conspirare. I’ve talked about this group several times on my blog, and every experience manages to excite and inspire me in a different way.
These are good times [...]

Ike Effect @ Montrose, originally uploaded by P3t3rT.
This is right down the street from my place in Houston. We don’t really know how serious Hurricane Ike going to be tonight, but Abby and I evacuated north with a few friends and are having a movie marathon. We’ll see how long we have [...]