Keynote Speeches Includes Piano Playing

Chuck is in demand for his keynote speeches. Usually at lunches or dinners, he plays the piano and delivers a topic of interest.

He has a list of topics but the client group frequently requests a topic of their interest.

For Example, at a Church Senior's December Holiday Luncheon, Chuck was asked to play and talk about his experience growing up and learning to play the piano

Other past topics:

Cancer testimony
Various improvisation demonstrations
Math and Music
Applying different rhythms and time signatures to a song

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

June 1, 2010 - June featured member of the Greater Marietta Music Teachers Association
May 10, 2010 - Chuck launches his Piano Studio at Southern Keyboards. Click for info.
May 1, 2010 - Chuck releases his latest CD "I Take Requests". Click to Listen

KEY PERFORMANCES

March 13, 2010 - Chuck concert at Southern Keyboards, Marietta, GA 7pm for prospective piano students
November 9, 2008 - Chuck inducted as an International Steinway Artist
October 12, 2008 - Chuck plays the Georgia State University Jazz Pianists Summit

QUOTES

"Information without inspiration is useless." - Dwight Keith

"The heart has a thousand strings that can only be played with love." Hafiz

"My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference. I, for one, believe the piano player job to be much more honorable than current politicians." - President Harry Truman

"Where words fail, music speaks." - Hans Christian Anderson

"Music touches places in the soul that words will never reach"

"Teaching is not a science; it is an art. If teaching were a science there would be a best way of teaching and everyone would have to teach like that. Since teaching is not a science, there is great latitude and much possibility for personal differences."
- From The Goals of Mathematical Education by George Polya (circa 1969)

"At a reverent performance of music, God is always at hand with his gracious presence."
- Johann Sebastian Bach, The Fifth Evangelist.

“I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy: but most importantly music, for in the patterns of music and all the arts are the keys of learning.”
- Plato

“GOOD teachers are costly; BAD teachers cost even more.”