Learning To Improvise

Finding your own unique voice in an ensemble of soloists

I’ve been a professional musician for nearly two decades now, yet I can probably count on one hand the number of times that I’ve been asked to sight-read a piece of sheet music. This is good news for all involved, because I am likely the world’s worst sight-reader. How bad, you might ask? Well, back in college I had a job teaching beginner’s piano lesso…