Chaconne #32 – The Explorers Club, NYC Mon Feb 13

https://explorers.org/events/detail/public_lecture_series_with_shem_guibbory_and_dorit_donoviel   This performance in my series Journey of 100 is part of an amazing evening: a program I am sharing with my niece Dr. Dorit Donoviel,  one of the chief scientists in charge of the medical program for NASA astronauts. We are calling it  For the Love of Music and Space. RESERVATIONS 212.628.8383 or email us at [email protected]

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Chaconne #31 – January 23 10:30am – Tarrytown NY

at the JCC on the Hudson in Tarrytown, NY just next to Hyatt Doubletree. 371 S. Broadway, Tarrytown, NY 10591, phone (914) 366-7898 Admission $5 http://shamesjcc.org/events/2017/01/23/events/j.s.-bach-journey-of-100-lecture-performance/  

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Chaconne #30 – Bennington College August 11, 2016 – 10pm

From my perspective, this performance touched into something that is hard to put into words…certainly a sense of me being able to “step back” in part, from “doing” (a state familiar to many musicians and others who perform on a regular basis), the music being organized in a new way…it left me feeling a new…

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Chaconne #29 – Bennington College August 4, 2016 – 10pm

  Well this performance was one of the best yet overall. The right attitude and expression in the opening movement (Allemande), unity of flow through the entire work, and assimilation of the fingerings I use to clarify the various voices in fast technical passages (Corrente and Gigue), so that they “disappear” (meaning you can’t hear…

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Chaconne #28 – August 14, 2015

Private performance while serving as Artist Faculty at Bennington Chamber Music Conference.  Greenwall, Auditorium, Bennington College, Vermont 10:30pm The work is certainly changing, literally under my own hands.   Allemande, Corrente, Sarabande, Gigue, Chaccone: deep within that one continuous flow of thoughts and feelings some core element is starting to emerge, beginning to come to my awareness.…

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Chaconne #26 – April 6, 2015 Private home NYC

I am very excited to be playing for one of my dear creative colleagues next Monday.  Since the last Chaconne (#25, 12/28/2014) I have been focussed on moving my residence, and have allowed the Bach to lie fallow through the deep winter. Now it is Spring, and I am coming back to the Bach after…

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