Moi Moi Moi

I am half pianist and half writer, stuffed with scraps of drafts and sewn together with piano wire.

I studied classical piano performance for a very long time. The boys—Bach, Beethoven, and Debussy—are now tucked into bed, and in the quiet hours of sometime, I explore the realm of cyborgian fantasy, using the piano to design and perform moving imagery. Elements of piano technique and cinematic projection are involved, but I work at fraying every edge, so that nothing is too familiar. I have presented solo and collaborative pieces throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, including Djerassi Resident Artists Program, The MilkBar, and Stanford University.

Other times, I write. From 2004 to 2008, I blogged In the Wings and was recognized by The Wall Street Journal for my “fey, deftly written” contributions to regional arts criticism. I have written for the online publication NewMusicBox, researched American film for the AFI Catalog of Feature Films, and produced content for Ampersand, a Los Angeles based arts and culture podcast. In me, a novel may sprout.

I hold a Master of Fine Arts in music from Mills College.

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Act VI

An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I’ve left the opera house.

— Maria Callas

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