Public Lectures
How to listen to a piece of music you have never heard before.
Chamber Music Northwest, July 2002
Brahms' Fourth and Don Carlos.
Conductor's Retreat at Medomak, July 2002
Musical Prodigies; the Pacific Rim.
Chamber Music Northwest, July 2003
Beethoven's Seventh Symphony; Barber's Violin Concerto; Histoire du soldat
– the pitches, the rhythms.
Conductor's Retreat at Medomak, July 2003
Schnittke's Piano Quintet.
Chamber Music Conference of the East: Vassar College, July 2003
The Great American Song Book.
Chamber Music Northwest, July 2004
Mozart: Jupiter Symphony; Elgar: Enigma Varations.
Conductor's Retreat at Medomak, July 2005
It's all music: classical music and jazz.
Chamber Music Northwest, July 2005
Richard Wagner: Father of modern music.
Seattle Opera, August 2005
Comparing Notes.
David Schiff and Tomas Svoboda
Chamber Music Northwest, July 2007
"Two articulate composers who are friends and colleagues have an
informal dialogue about their careers, their triumphs and challenges,
and how they work with musicians." More info at www.cmnw.org.