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This is our daughter Valerie. She started taking piano lessons last August.
I have more room to garden now that I am in rural PA...this is one garden path that started to take off after just one year of planting. More to come!
Robin Goldsby and I have been friends for twenty years. We met when I was a cocktail waitress in a piano bar; she was the cocktail pianist in the lounge. I shared my music with Robin G one late night at closing time. She was gracious enough to introduce me to her piano booking agent in New York City, convinced that I had a potential career as performer. Thanks to her, I began performing steadily in New York City piano rooms and hotel lobbies. Robin lives in Germany now, but we e-mail one another daily. In this photo was are celebrating the release of her delightful and hilarious memoir, PIANO GIRL at the Waldorf-Astoria in new York City.
With my niece Amy (of "Amy's Lullaby") . She is 15 now!
"The Photographer"Larry Kosson
Larry and I met in the fall of '94 and were married the following summer. He is responsible for many of the photographs on these pages, including most of my album covers and publicity photos. The photo on the right was taken 13 years after met at a music conference in New York, where we represented our music agency, SMG ARTISTS.
April 1994 - Just getting a little silly at a LunaMoon rehearsal
This is Jennie Spielberg, my grandmother who emigrated to this country from Russia in 1929. The story of her journey is the inspiration behind my composition "A Song for Jennie -- We're Almost There" which is track #2 on Songs of the Spirit. Grandma Jennie passed away this August at age 100!
This is me with my friend William H. Macy and his bride Felicity Huffman (Desperate Housewives, Transamerica) the day before their wedding. We went on a hike through the beautiful mountains in and around Aspen. You might know Bill from movies like "Fargo","Airforce One", Jurassic Park, "Magnolia" , "Focus" etc. Bill was my acting teacher at New York University in the 80's, and Felicity was my classmate and dear friend. Bill directed me in a number of plays and radio dramas with the Atlantic Theater Company, including my first "real" professional play at Lincoln Center, "Boy's Life," by Howard Korder. (I originated the role of "The Girl.") Bill is also responsible for my first theatrical commission as a composer, so it was only fitting that I compose and perform a piece for his wedding. The piece is called "Wedding on the Mountain," and it can be heard on DREAMING OF SUMMER


At the wedding itself, I saw some Atlantic Theater Company friends I hadn't seen in a while, including Camryn Manheim , (The Practice) Kristen Johnston, who starred in"Third Rock from the Sun." Next to Kristen is my friend Hilary who was the Managing Director of the theater company for a number of years.
I performed in Arizona 5/97 and 2/98. This photo was taken while hiking through the canyons in Sedona.
w/violinist Joshua Bell - NYC 2005
Performing with Tingstad & Rumbel WPTZ (Plattsburgh, NY)
Performing a duet with my daughter at her piano recital - Dec 08
Performance at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, NYC Benefit for the Epilepsy Foundation of New Jersey 1998
Sitting down with audience member Amy Hargrove to demonstrate the "tricky part" of "The Nature of Time" - Jekyll Island, Georgia in 2000
(Amy wrote me recently to tell me she's since mastered the song )
On the set of the PBS Special, The Soul of Christmas: A Celtic Music Celebration with Thomas Moore. Pictured are keyboardist Jamshied Sharifi, author Thomas Moore, Robin Spielberg, fiddler/producer Johnny Cunningham & singer Cathie Ryan (Johnny passed away unexpectedly in Dec. '03 and he is very much missed. See http://www.johnnycunningham.com
With Steinway & Sons president, Bruce Stevens at the Steinway Piano Factory in New York.
At a party at Gracie Mansion with New York Mayor Bloomberg June 2003
I was invited to perform a special concert for 450 factory workers at the Steinway & Sons piano factory in Astoria, NY. The best Steinway of the year was placed on the factory floor for me to play. It was a fun afternoon!