has taught privately and performed in the Dayton, Ohio, area for more than forty years. He
has studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music, the University of Dayton, and the
College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati. His piano studies were with
Ada Clyde Gallagher, Beryl Rubinstein, Frances Bolton Kortheuer, and Madeline Bostian Rider,
a pupil of Tobias Matthay. He is a past President of the American
Matthay Association and
for seventeen years was Director of Concerts for the Dayton Art Institute. He is also the
Founder/Director of the Soirées Musicales Piano Series, which is now in its thirty-fourth
season, and he served as a member of the piano faculty at Wright State University from 1976-83.
Since 1963, he has appeared every year but one as a recitalist and/or lecturer at the annual
Matthay Festivals held throughout the United States and in Canada. In 1999 he appeared as soloist with Dayton's
Miami Valley Symphony Orchestra in two performances of the Tchaikovsky G Major Concerto and again in February
of 2001 in two performances of the Mozart Concerto K. 467 and Chopin's Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise Brilliante.
In April 2003 he again appeared with the MVSO in a performance of Dohnanyi's Variations on a Nursery Tune, which he
performed on a rare 90-keyed 1913 Érard, which he recently rebuilt.
