My passion for keyboard instruments started at the University of Michigan, where I wanted to program concerts of underperformed classical wind chamber music. One of the works was a piano concerto with wind octet accompaniment, and when I inquired about using a period appropriate fortepiano for the performance, was offered lessons on the instrument. This was the first time I had piano lessons, starting around the age of 21, finding middle C and working my way through the Nannerl book to perform that chamber concerto a year later.
