The complete collaborator

Take more than 40 years of partnering celebrated soloists in concerts all over the world, add nearly 30 years of teaching the art of accompanying, and you have the qualifications for such an audacious title as The Complete Collaborator. All the tools for understanding and executing first-class collaborative piano are here, paired with audio recordings of many of the musical examples performed by the author himself, along with two vocalists, on a companion website. The obvious topics -- breathing, languages, flexibility, and creating a collaborative atmosphere -- discussed at length and…