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23 Februar 2021, News
Fall 2020 and Winter 2021 Events
1/3/2021 - My Etude-Fantasy for solo flute (2011) was just featured on flutist Robin Meiksins' 100 Days of New Music project, Day 74!  Check out the performance here.   We recently connected through shared Cleveland and IU circles and I look forward to much more work together! (Stay tuned for future projects in progress.) 12/2020 - I had the pleasure of adjudicating the Carrollton, TX MTA Composition Competition for the second time this year. Congratulations to all the entrants ...
10 Januar 2021, News
Exciting Things Happening in Fall 2019!
11/17/2019: Fans of new choral music are invited to attend a performance of Joshua Clausen's Requiem (for voice and electronics) for which I'll be in the chorus. This will take place during the regular service time at Fairmount Presbyterian Church in Cleveland Heights. I was an active chorister in various ensembles at IU (and was particularly sought after for new music premieres), so I'm looking forward to this opportunity! 11/15/2019: Case Western's Concert Choir (and yours truly on piano) will be ...
25 August 2020, News
Summer 2020 News
8/28/2020 - I'm honored to be a collaborative pianist for Spooky Goose Opera's history-making virtual production of Mozart's famous Die Zauberflote (The Magic Flute) - running for 3 weeks starting this weekend! I'll be contributing both prerecorded tracks and livestreamed playing during the shows.  Click here for more info, dates, and the complete cast. 6/8/2020 - Check out the upcoming advertisement for my Venturing Beyond and Vignettes collections in the Summer 2020 issue of Piano Magazine ...
22 April 2020, News
Winter and Spring 2020 Happenings
4/18/2020 - As a last-minute addition to the program, I reunited with my friends at the  Spooky Goose Opera  for another pair of Quarantine Concerts, which featured the two completed pieces from my Vignettes collection. Livestream archives are available via the Spooky Goose YouTube channel. 4/3/2020 - I'm honored to be giving a (virtual!) presentation on Irina Gorin's Tales of a Musical Journey piano method for the Western Reserve Music Teachers Association! Tales takes the best of the ...
04 Juli 2019, News
Spring/Summer 2019 Events and Happenings
8/2019: More exciting news: StudioDiPaolo will soon be relocating to Shaker Heights, Ohio, in addition to maintaining a virtual studio! For this reason, I'll no longer be taking Bloomington students who don't intend to "go virtual" after the relocation happens; however, if you'd like to join the virtual piano studio (or are interested in enrolling for theory/composition, which has always offered virtual enrollment), enrollment is still open for that. This website will also be getting a complete makeover ...
14 November 2018, News
Summer & Fall 2018 Events
11/2018: The semester is coming to a close and audition prescreening deadlines are looming. If you anticipate needing to work with a pianist for your recordings or fall jury, let me know as soon as possible. As finals approach, more of my classroom music theory students will be requesting office hours and extra tutoring, which will limit my rehearsal schedule. January piano studio waitlist positions remain unchanged. Should my classroom teaching load change in such a way that I can begin accepting ...
23 Februar 2018, News
2017-2018 Academic Year Concerts and Events
2/23/2018: My Accessible Accompaniments, genuinely playable piano reductions of notoriously difficult operatic arias, are now available for purchase on their own website! Stop by  accessibleaccompaniments.weebly.com  to browse and purchase the available scores! 2/17/2018: I'm thrilled to announce that I was chosen as one of three collaborative piano fellows for this year's SOARS program at the Bay View Music Festival in Petoskey, Michigan. The program will take place from June 8th to 24th, ...
01 Juni 2017, News
Summer 2017 Updates
June 2017 - My review of R. Ryan Endris's Music Theory for Beginners book is now up on the Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy's website! Check it out here! May 2017 - If you haven't checked out my recordings in a little while, I've recently posted several selections from my busy semester of recital performances and recordings at IU. Check them out on my YouTube channel ! In addition, Patty Lazzara and Allison Franzetti's beautiful performance of my Minuet in A can be heard on YouTube here . Many thanks ...
06 Januar 2017, News
Winter/Spring 2017 News and Performances
April 30, 2017 - A piece from my compositional "early period" (if one could call it that!), my Minuet in A for flute and piano from 2002, will be featured at the Steve Markoff & Friends "OKFlutePid" benefit concert for the Randolph Regional Animal Shelter in New Jersey on April 30! The performers are also planning to film a documentary about the rehearsal and performance process. Click here to view the Facebook event and RSVP! January 2017 - I'm thrilled to announce that the first few of my ...
28 Oktober 2016, News
Fall 2016 Events
November 2016 - I'm happy to have been granted the opportunity to serve as an MTNA composition competition judge again this year (marking my 3rd consecutive year adjudicating for the MTNA in various stages of the composition competitions). Teaching composition (and especially adjudicating it) can be difficult, but I hope I'm offering some useful advice when I evaluate these pieces by talented young composers from around the US! October 2016 - I've been keeping busy this year as a collaborative ...