"Robert likes men."
        - Benson
"No man that has ever lived has done a thing to please God — primarily. It was done to please Robert Lee, then God next."
        - Mark Twain
"Robert Lee makes original recipe exra crispy in his sleep"
        - Colonel Sanders
"Don't call me a mindless philosopher you overweight glob of grease!"
        - C3PO
"Have you considered my servant Robert Lee? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil."
        - God
"You are most historic."
        - Rebecca
"Robert Lee is "Spicable!""
        - Daffy Duck
"I wish my boyfriend would let me joke about being intimately involved with Robert Lee."
        - Kristen
"you are so trish-a-licious"
        - Jim
 

A taste of my music

Here's a random assortment of some of my performances when I was a music major and otherwise.

Original Compositions

The Friendly Psychopath

I wrote about half of this during the summer of 2005 and the other half during Christmas break and the following spring semester of 2006. This premiere performance was at a Neophonia concert at the GSU recital hall. Neophonia is a new music concert that Dr. Demos, who is head of the composition department, puts on once or twice a semester. He selects the works to be played himself and decided to use my piece because the concert was on Halloween night (Oct. 31st 2006) and my piece had a particularly creepy sound to it.

Since this was probably one of my biggest performances to date, I was pretty nervous playing it. Because of that I rushed some parts and did not necessarily play my most musically. Even though I probably could make a better recording at home now, I think it's more fun to listen to a real recording from when it was played with an audience in a recital hall.

GSU Student Recitals

Junior Recital Clips

Here are a few selected movements and pieces from my Junior Recital





Prelude II - Bach from Well-Tempered Clavier Book I

This is the prelude without the usual following fugue. At the time I hadn't finished learning the fugue so I didn't play it at the recital. I'll record and upload the fugue later...

Prelude in G Minor - Rachmaninoff

I learned this the very first semester I was at Georgia State. I have some major mistakes but I love this recording because it's so early in my career at State.

Fantasie-Impromptu - Chopin

Yesterday I played in our piano area recital (basically, the pianists just play for themselves and for the piano faculty) and I got the recording of it from my teacher. I played the immensely famous Fantasie-Impromptu by Chopin. I learned it at the beginning of the semester and worked it back up just in the past couple of days. I rush a couple of parts (especially the endings of the first theme) but overall, I think I did pretty well. But listen for yourself

General Performances

Flight of the Bumblebee - 8th grade recital

This is pretty much the fastest I have ever played this piece. I plan to work it back up so that I can play it that fast again (and more smoothly too hopefully).

Liebestraum - Franz Liszt

This was my grandfather's favorite classical piece. Because of that, I downloaded the MP3 and listened too it a couple of years ago and I ended up wanting to play it. I learned it when I was a junior in highschool and over the years I've refined it more in more and I ended up using it as one of my audition pieces for GA State's music program. I recorded this on my Roland digital piano, so it doesn't sound as good as a real piano (nor can I play it as well), but nevertheless... it's a great piece. My grandfather died when I was only three, though I have a few very vivid memories of him. I still get to play this piece for my grandmother every time I go up to visit her.