zio davino music

Videos of David Rakowski's music. And SoundCloud thingies, too. See Alphabetical List of Posts for genres.

"rampant imagination, ideas and riffs aggressively growing, mutating, overrunning a stretch of time like invasive species." — Boston Globe
"it outstayed its welcome like pundits’ ceaseless chatter" — NY Times
"If it was sultry, it was an academic sultry" — Boston Globe
"Mr. Rakowski is to be treasured for livening up the piano repertoire" — New York Concert Review

Sunday, December 9, 2012

Music for young performers

Étude-Fantasies (2009), commissioned by the Music Teachers Association of California. The commission specified an intermediate level piece for young performers aged 11-13, and apparently it fits the bill. It's published by CF Peters, Edition 68307.

The movies below were taken by parents in the audience. Three duos of various ages premiered them at the MTAC Conference in July, 2010, and I coached all three. Two of them were caught on video and posted on YouTube, thus.

Jeremy and Zachary Siu:

Sam Yang and Andrea Tam:

Me ~~coaching Sam and Andrea~~ doing a stand-up routine after their performance:

Incidentally. Do I really sound like that when I talk?