I gave this album to friends and family for Christmas and the response I received was even more overwhelming than it had been with "Beginnings". Feeling especially inspired and motivated by all the positive feedback I'd received, and by finally owning my first piano, I composed and recorded 16 songs over a four month period that I released as my second (but first official) album "Elysium". I purchased my own digital piano, a Yamaha Clavinova, and consulted my uncle who owns a recording studio on the in's and out's of recording at home. It was then that I decided to step it up a notch and record a "real album". Comments like "Wow, I didn't know you played so well!" or "You really should make more of these!", and "This is some of the most beautiful music I've ever heard!" left me feeling a whole new world of emotions about my music than I'd ever felt before. What I didn't expect was the overwhelming flow of positive feedback from everyone. I recorded 20 of my favorite pieces I'd composed over the years, mistakes and all, titled the album "Beginnings" and make a couple dozen copies to give to friends and family for Christmas that year. a borrowed digital piano, a tape recorder, and a quiet room.
It wasn't until the year 2000, when my mom pestered me to make her a cassette tape of my music, that I finally released an album. Over the years, I composed dozens of songs that nobody but my close immediate friends and family heard. I would write songs, but then I'd be too embarrassed to share them with anyone. It's kind of funny, because I was very shy about my music growing up.
So instead, I just learned to play by listening to other musicians, and it wasn't long before I was composing my own songs. Lessons made playing the piano a miserable, horrible, unpleasant chore, and that just didn't work for me. Well, that's not entirely true, I did take lessons for a very brief moment in time and I hated it.
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Before long, I was playing entire George Winston tunes, and though I didn't realize it at the time, I was also learning how to play. I would put the CD in, listen to a few measures, and then plunk it out as best I could.
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I remember thinking a wide-eyed "WOW!" and I thought everything about George and his music and being up on that stage playing for a concert hall full of people was just super cool.Īfter that I spent months learning how to play his songs by ear. We were right by the stage, on the left hand side, I could see his hands so clearly and closely and I was mesmerized. When I was 8, my parents took me to see George Winston in concert. There has always just been a connection between the piano and I. if there was a piano or keyboard in the room, I gravitated toward it, longing to touch and play it. I've always had a musical ear, and could figure out any melody I heard. My earliest memories are around the age of 5, playing piano for show-n-tell in kindergarten. I started playing piano when I was very young. If I could write this biography with music, it would definitely be a lot more interesting. it is my diary, my journal, my biography. I've also been told that my music is "captivating" and that it transports the listener into worlds of imagination and wonder. I've often been told that my music is "haunting and contagious", "relaxing and beautiful", "peaceful and touching".
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