It’s late tonight – I will plan to write more details tomorrow evening.

2011 will be much more streamlined and  focused, with three exciting endeavors:

1.) Maintaining my concert repertoire, and learning new pieces (Turina and Paganini, TBA)

2.) The Grieg project for Centaur Records, of which I am writing the guitar transcriptions, to be completed this Summer. It has been a long time coming.

3.) My collaboration with Mr. Schuster – we will be performing ‘The Divan of Moses-IBN-Ezra’ at Carnegie Hall in January, 2012, along with much by Schubert and Mompou. In addition we have commissioned a new work for guitar and tenor by composer Clarice Assad, of which we are extremely excited about. I will post more information about this concert early in June.

My lengthy tour begins this weekend in Port Orange, FL and will go until the end of May – the longest tour I have ever taken.

During the first leg of this tour I will have my suave assistant with me, Rob Savitsky.

Rob has done a spectacular job with PR and social networking, with most of the later pivoting around Facebook and Twitter. He has some excellent ideas, executes everything with finesse  and is a HUGE asset to my career.

Fiction-wise I just finished ‘The American’ by Henry James. Now I am reading ‘A Distant Mirror’ by Barbara Tuchmnan.

This is the year to purchase new stereo equipment:

ARCAM FMJ 18 integrated amp (this British component has a lovely sound)

ORTOPHON 2m Bronze cartridge for my turntable (the sound is nothing short of amazing – yes – I prefer LPs)

I am thinking of upgrading my speakers to some Bowers and Wilkins 600 series, but not until later this year.

Thanks for stopping by!

Sincerely,

Peter