The pure understanding of music through sound alone is undoubtedly the most interesting and intimate musical experience we can engage in. This is not to say that a solid grounding in musicological discourse, acoustics and performance practice is not a great contribution to our knowledge of music. Lecture-recitals are offered on  specialist subjects such as new notation and extended piano techniques, but also on historical performance and mainstream repertoire, as an alternative or a complement to a recital. They are structured so that the historical and sociological relevance of music is identified and so that a deeper relationship between listener and the semantic discourse of any music is established. The subjects below are an indication of the broad spectrum of issues that the use of words can help the artist cover in performance:

Mozart’s 250th – Tuning issues: are our notes the ones Mozart intended?
(lecture recital given in the Goethe Institut, Thessaloniki, May 12th 2006)

Extended piano techniques: an early appraisal

Piano improvisation and the art of listening

The physiology of the human hand and a history of keyboard instruments

Microtonal music for the piano

Writing for the piano in the 21st century

Klangfarben: the death of transcribing

88 – a presentation of 88 piano studies