Assistant Professor of Piano & Musicology · Director of Keyboard Studies
Old Dominion University · Norfolk, Virginia
Pianist-scholar working across performance, archival research, pedagogy, and human-centered music AI.
About
I am a pianist whose work brings together performance, historical research, and the study of musical interpretation. I have appeared as a soloist and chamber musician across the United States, France, Morocco, Portugal, Moldova, and the United Kingdom, with performances at venues including the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, the Cité de la Musique and Salle Cortot in Paris, and the Casa da Música in Porto.
A graduate of the École Normale de Musique de Paris and the Royal College of Music in London, I hold a Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance from the University of Southern California. I am Assistant Professor of Piano and Musicology and Director of Keyboard Studies at Old Dominion University.
My research examines how musical interpretation is taught, transmitted, remembered, and transformed across institutions, cultures, and technologies. Current projects focus on French piano pedagogy, Franco-Moroccan musical exchange, historical recordings, and human-centered AI for musical performance.
This project examines Cortot’s cours d’interprétation, archival traces of piano teaching, and the transmission of performance practice in twentieth-century France.
“Revivre le cours: Alfred Cortot, archives pédagogiques et transmission interprétative sur le Steinway 1907”
This project studies conservatory culture, musical education, and Franco-Moroccan exchange from the Protectorate period to the present.
This project uses large corpora of historical recordings and scores to study patterns of timing, articulation, and interpretation across pianistic traditions.
At Old Dominion University, I direct keyboard studies and teach applied piano, music history, and pedagogy. My courses include Music and Ideas, Music in the Romantic Era, Music of the 20th Century to the Present, Applied Music Literature, and Applied Music Pedagogy.
I also teach online through ArtistWorks in the course “Piano with Zachary Deak.”
Previously, I taught at Cal State University, Los Angeles and Cuesta College in San Luis Obispo.