Musical Life

My interest in music is intertwined with a lifelong academic occupation in mathematical modeling. Although it might generate the familiar reaction (Ah! Musicians and Math), I must admit that the precise relationship of music and mathematics still eludes me, but ... Alas! unresolved philosophical issues don't impede on my musician life that revolves around piano performance, composition, and teaching.

My musical training was centered around the piano. Born in northern Italy (somewhat close to the Cervino mountain, where I spent my summers), I studied piano in Milano with Isabella Zielonka, and then San Francisco and Florida with Robert Helps and Kensington with Julian White. Studies in composition are much more recent, and even more so is an interest in fairly esoteric, and perhaps useful, branches of music theory.

Extended Curriculum Vitae