Following next is the title piece, “Prelude to a Dream” – one of my favorite passages on the album. The opening piece, “Wonders”, begins almost entirely in the upper register before making its way down toward the middle range of the piano, effectively bringing-to-mind the early music of David Lanz – in particular, his landmark album Nightfall. Reviewed by Candice Michelle, Journeyscapes Considering the rich melodic and rhythmic flow of her current music, it made perfect sense to read that she fell in love with New Age solo piano music in 1990, and was heavily inspired by some of my own heroes of the genre, including David Lanz, Suzanne Ciani and Jim Chappell. I was delighted to see that their music inspired the classically trained Shoshana – who launched her career playing ragtime at Knott’s Berry Farm – to pen her first piano solo “Heather, Roses and Moonlight.” But I was perplexed by the next line: “feeling that she couldn’t compose, she stopped writing music entirely.” How could someone so obviously gifted and musically intuitive lose their momentum and not compose for so many years? This question truly seems to be the impetus behind the very personal expressions driving the new album towards its transcendence.
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Read the full reviewĮngaging in pianist/composer Shoshana Michel’s sensitive, insightful and deeply compelling new album Reflection while perusing her bio, a few striking pieces of background information stand out. Recorded and engineered by Joe Bongiorno at Piano Haven Studios and featuring beautiful cover artwork by Matt Strieby, this is arguably Shoshana’s best work to date. Her 2017 release, Prelude to a Dream, won One World Music Radio’s Solo Piano Album of the Year her latest release, Reflection, was born out of the experience of finding herself as a composer and facing life’s challenges.
The positive response to the release of her first album, Soul Whispers, her solo piano arrangements of beautiful songs of Jewish Eastern European origin, led her to resume the challenge of composing in 2016, a full twenty-four years after she wrote her first solo piano piece for a student who shared her love of New Age Music, she released an album of original pieces, Dancing on the Wind, which was nominated for numerous awards. Reflection is Shoshana Michel’s fourth released piano solo album and her third as a composer. I would love to hear your thoughts about my new music! You are welcome to leave a comment here or contact me HERE.Reviewed by Pam Asberry, Enlightened Piano – I will be sharing a lot of new content there over the weeks and months ahead and I don’t want you to miss a thing! The first is the title track, The Presence of Wonder click HERE to watch, then please take a moment to subscribe to my YouTube channel.
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Now I’m working hard to get everything in place for the release of my new album of original solo piano music, The Presence of Wonder, on April 12th (pre-orders will begin on March 15th). This album is a musical celebration of the infinite wonders that exist in both the physical and spiritual realms because the music is so special to me, I decided to work with an expert (thank you, Alex Carter of A Carter Production!) to create a series of beautiful sampler videos to share with my listeners leading up to the album release date. What a thrill it was to share the stage with other new artists such as myself as well as established artists such as Michele McLaughlin, Tim Neumark, Doug Hammer, and Chad Lawson – pianists whose concerts I have attended as a fan, never dreaming I would one day be composing my own music and have the opportunity to share it in a concert alongside them!
The concert was broadcast live on Facebook click HERE to watch (my number starts about 46 seconds in). Instructed to choose from among the pieces that are streaming on Whisperings Solo Piano, I decided to go with Moonlight over Moorea. Best of all, as a new artist, I was invited to perform in the Whisperings Discovery Concert at PianoWorks on Saturday, February 9th. Lucky me! I got to hang out with 52 other artists from all around the world, sit in on two informative workshops, and attend two amazing concerts. The annual Whisperings Solo Piano Artists weekend took place February 8-10 in Atlanta, Georgia.
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