I had the honor and great fortune of studying with Mrs. Clarfield for about 5 years in the early 90's during my middle school / high school years. I have wonderful memories of video-taped lessons, colorful markings all over my music, countless number of competitions, and performing at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, all thanks to Mrs. Clarfield. I truly believe it was because of Mrs. Clarfield that I got an Ivy League education. All of my college essays were about piano, and I couldn't have gotten as far as I did without Mrs. Clarfield. I went to Cornell University and received my Bachelors and Masters degrees in Electrical Engineering. I started off my career at Motorola and later worked for various software companies as a project manager / business analyst / systems engineer.

I am currently married with two children, Aidan and Kyle. I didn't play the piano much after I went to college until I started teaching my kids piano a couple of years ago in Phoenix, AZ. Then I realized how hard it was to teach your own children and I wished I had Mrs. Clarfield around to help me! They currently study with another teacher and I can share some of the techniques that Mrs. Clarfield instilled in me to help them practice.

We recently moved to NYC and we hope to reconnect with Mrs. Clarfield and take the children to one of her performances/recitals!

-- Kelly Chung Mukherjee