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Mar 6, 2017
My Journey to the Podium – part 7: Prague, Al Gore, Maestra, & Hillary Rodham Clinton
I had an opportunity to spend some time in Prague, the city of Antonin Dvořák, the Czech composer who utilized melodies of Negro Spirituals


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Feb 23, 2017
My Journey to the Podium - part 6: Wagner, Abolishing Slavery, & Kurt Masur
The winter following my Vienna debut with the Chicago Sinfonietta, the same concert agent who booked the gig for me at Vienna’s Musikverein


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Feb 15, 2017
My Journey to the Podium – part 5: New York Debut at Lincoln Center, European Tours, and Coretta Sco
While I was still enrolled at Juilliard I had applied to compete in several international piano competitions, but my applications were not b


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Feb 8, 2017
My Journey to the Podium – part 4: Europe-Bound
Armed with a master’s degree from Juilliard, I assumed the next step for me was to establish myself in Europe. When the United States Ambass

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Jan 27, 2017
My Journey to the Podium – part 3: Practice! Practice! Practice!
After I graduated from Juilliard, I was on my own when it came to finding places to practice. I had a small upright piano in my little apart


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Jan 15, 2017
My Journey to the Podium – part 2: Graduating from college, Juilliard, and New York City
Upon my graduation, it felt like studying at Juilliard and living in New York were inevitable. So I left my live-in babysitting job in Phill

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Jan 8, 2017
My Journey to the Podium - part 1: Growing up in Nashville, Gershwin, and Curtis Institute of Music
In this article I am following April's advice and writing/documenting my conducting career, thus manifesting my future success. This ser