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When I find time, I pursue several modes of musical expression.

Live Performance

I play several instruments with varying degrees of success:

I can sightread a piano piece like this Clementi sonatina and carry on a conversation at the same time.

With time, I can learn most piano compositions, though my classical chops are rusty these days. In college I learned the first movement of Schumann's Piano Concerto in A Minor, which was probably the most advanced repertoire I learned.

On the other end of the musical spectrum, if a band is playing a song I don't know, as long as someone's yelling the chords before we hit them, I can play along without much difficulty.

I have been in several (defunct) rock bands, and have also played in classical and pop orchestral settings.

I learned upright bass primarily to play bluegrass, which I did for several years in my late teens.

I played quite a bit of worship music for Hershey Free Church over my decades of attending there, including a stint as the primary keyboard player for the main services.

I have also played a fair amount of harp-and-flute duet music with my sister Hannah, at venues as disparate as the Whitaker Center and the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire.

Recording

In April of 2020 I made a goal to record at least one small snippet of music daily. I publish those at noise.nateeag.com.

Arrangement

I have arranged several pieces for harp and flute, as Hannah and I sometimes found ourselves lacking good arrangements for a given need.

I was a primary driver of the arrangements in most of the bands I have played in, including Hershey Free's worship band(s).

I did most of the arranging (and the piano and keyboard performance) on Classical Academic Press's Veni Emmanuel CD.

Songwriting

On occasion, I have been known to write lyrical songs.

This usually happens as parody or off-the-cuff improvised lyricism, and little of it has been written down. Most of what I have written down is incomplete fragments.

Composition

I have an interest in composing instrumental music.

In some ways, composition is a natural outgrowth of improvisation and arranging, and most of my 'composition' has taken exactly that form - ephemeral snippets of melody, harmony, and rhythm that were not captured in an archiveable medium.

Of those that were recorded or written, many were lost in a hard drive crash years ago.

However, some pieces survive.