Instrument(s)
Piano
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Vocalist
Information
Location
Houston, Texas
Occupation
pianist, vocalist, music teacher
Music That Inspires Me
Early music (Monteverdi, Tallis, Byrd, Morley, etc.), choral music, JS Bach, Debussy, Satie, Ravel, Gershwin, Joplin, Philip Glass, John Adams, British & Irish trad/folk, Americana, Tom Waits, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, Kurt Weill & Bertolt Brecht, Stephen Sondheim, circus music, dark cabaret, ethnic music, gospel, The Beatles, stride, barrelhouse, ragtime, punk, Patti Smith, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Randy Newman, experimental music, film scores, Olivier Messiaen, Paul Bowles, George Crumb, Harry Partch, Serge Gainsbourg, Jacques Brel, Lewis Furey, anything dark, scary, sad, mad and/or clangy.
Films I'll Watch More Than Once
Anything by the Coen Bros., most classic musicals, most Woody Allen, classic comedies (Chaplin, Keaton, Fields, the Marx Bros.), documentaries, British dramas & comedies, most film adaptations of Shakespeare, anything by Christopher Guest & Co., "The Exorcist," good film adaptations of good books and plays, period pieces (bring on Jane Austen and the Bronte sisters!), well-made horror and gangster flicks.
