Jon Schmidt

Love Story Taylor Swift meets Viva La Vida Coldplay—Piano Cello—by Jon Schmidt
 
 

Koji Kondo

Koji Kondo (近藤 浩治 Kondō Kōji^?, born August 13, 1960) is a Japanese video game composer and sound director who has been employed at Nintendo since 1984. He is best known for scoring numerous titles in the Mario and The Legend of Zelda series.

The "Super Mario Bros. theme" reached number one on Billboard Magazine's Hot Ringtones chart in 2009. Kondo cites rock bands Deep Purple and Emerson, Lake & Palmer as major musical influences. He has also cited as influences the works of the Russian romantic composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, particularly his four piano concertos.

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The Legend of Zelda - Koji Kondo

Mario - Koji Kondo



Super Mario World 2 - Koji Kondo
 



  Zelda 64 - Koji Kondo
 

Ryuichi Sakamoto

Ryuichi Sakamoto (坂本 龍一, Sakamoto Ryūichi^?, born January 17, 1952) is a Japanese musician, composer, record producer, writer, singer, pianist, and actor, based in Tokyo and New York. He began his career in 1978 as a member of the pioneering electronic music group Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO), where he played keyboards and was an occasional vocalist. The band was an international success, with worldwide hits such as "Computer Game / Firecracker" (1978) and "Behind the Mask" (1978), the latter written and sung by Sakamoto. He concurrently began pursuing a solo career, debuting with the experimental electronic fusion album The Thousand Knives of Ryūichi Sakamoto (1978), and later released the pioneering album B-2 Unit (1980), which included the electro classic "Riot in Lagos". After YMO disbanded in 1983, he produced more solo records, including collaborations with various international artists, through to the 1990s.

He began acting and composing for film with Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983), which he starred in and composed the score for; the song "Forbidden Colours" which he composed for it became a worldwide hit and he won a BAFTA Award for the film's score. He later won an Academy Award and Grammy Award for scoring The Last Emperor (1987), and has also won two Golden Globe Awards for his work as a film composer.In addition, he also composed music for the 1992 Barcelona Olympics opening ceremony. In the early 1990s, he briefly reunited with YMO, playing an instrumental role in the techno and acid house movements of the era, before parting ways again shortly afterwards.His 1999 musical composition "Energy Flow", also known as the alternative title of the single disc Ura BTTB, was the first number-one instrumental single in Japan's Oricon charts history.

He has also occasionally worked on anime and video games, as a composer as well as a scenario writer. In the late 2000s, he reunited once again with YMO, while continuing to compose film music. In 2009, he was awarded the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from France's Ministry of Culture for his musical contributions.

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  Ryuichi Sakamoto Trio 1996 - Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
 

  Ryuichi Sakamoto - Rain(live)
 

  Ryuichi Sakamoto-Energy Flow
 

  Ryuichi Sakamoto - The Last Emperor
 

Rebecca Oswald

Rebecca Oswald is an award-winning U.S. composer with many areas of experience and excellence. Born in Oklahoma, she later moved to Colorado, then Texas. From 1981 to 1995 she worked as a solo pianist, band keyboardist, and studio musician in Houston, Texas.

In 1998 Rebecca earned her Bachelor of Music degree in Music Theory and Composition, summa cum laude, from Westminster Choir College of Rider University in Princeton, N.J., where she studied composition with Joel Phillips, Stefan Young, and Ronald Hemmel, and piano with Lillian Livingston. In 2001 she earned her Master of Music degree in Music Composition from the University of Oregon School of Music in Eugene, Oregon, where she studied composition with Robert Kyr and David Crumb. Rebecca currently lives in Oregon. She occasionally tours, performing her original solo piano music in concert.

Rebecca's instrumental concert works catalogue includes works for solo instruments, various chamber ensembles, string orchestra, chamber orchestra, full orchestra, and a clarinet concerto. Her choral and vocal catalogue includes a cappella and accompanied sacred and secular works for all kinds of ensembles from small to large, including one choral/orchestral work. Rebecca has also written and produced music for CD-ROM games and video documentary score. Rebecca maintains active compositional projects in a variety of musical genres.

Highlights of Rebecca's discography include Whereas (solo piano, 2011), October Wind (solo piano, 2005), Light and Shadow (orchestral compilation, 2011, PARMA Recordings), and Whisperings Solo Piano Volume 1 (solo piano compilation, 2011, Whisperings Solo Piano Radio).

Rebecca Oswald - The Rhythm of Snow


Rebecca Oswald - New Leaf


Rebecca Oswald - Perseids

Suzanne Ciani

Suzanne Ciani (born June 4, 1946) is an Italian American pianist and music composer who found early success with innovative electronic music.

She received classical music training at Wellesley College and obtained her M.A. in music composition in 1970 at University of California, Berkeley where she met and was influenced by the synthesizer designer, Don Buchla. She studied computer generated music with John Chowning and Max Mathews at Stanford's Artificial Intelligence Labs in the early 1970s.

In 1982 Ciani began to record albums in the New Age genre, characterized by a mix of electronic and traditional instruments. Her first album, Seven Waves was first released in 1982 in Japan, and was later released in her native US in 1984 through Atlantic Records. Her 1986 album [[The Velocity Of Love, released by RCA Records, featured Ciani's best known song, the title track. In 1987 she signed to the Private Music label, which released a number of albums from 1988 to 1992, including re-issues of her first two albums. Although emphasizing electronic music in her recordings, her solo piano album Pianissimo, from 1990, became her best-selling album. Ciani ended her contract with Private Music with the compilation The Private Music Of Suzanne Ciani, in 1992.

In the 1990s Ciani founded her own music label, Seventh Wave, from which she has released all her subsequent albums, which have been more classically oriented than her previous recordings. 1994's Dream Suite was recorded in Moscow with the Young Russia Orchestra, and was Grammy-nominated. 1999's Turning featured her first composition with lyrics, in the title track, sung by Taiwanese artist Chyi Yu.

In early 2006, Ciani's Silver Ship won in The 5th Annual Independent Music Awards for Best New Age Album. Ciani was also an inaugural member of the Independent Music Awards' judging panel to support independent artists.

Five of Ciani's albums have been nominated for Grammy awards.

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Suzanne Ciani & The Wave - Butterflies

Suzanne Ciani Live - Neverland - High Quality



Suzanne Ciani Lay Down Beside


Suzanne Ciani－Anthem


Drifting - Suzanne Ciani, piano


Suzanne Ciani: The Velocity of Love

Michael Andreas

Michael Andreas Haeringer (Barcelona, ​​26 September 2001) is a pianist of Catalonia (Spain), of German descent. Is a direct descendant of the pianist and composer Franz Liszt Hungarian and German pianist Sophie Menter.

In 2005, joined the Musicals Luthier School in Barcelona. Since 2007 he studied with Russian pianist Gennady Dzubenko.

He won the "41 th Contest of Young Performers Piano de Catalunya" (2010, Category C, under 13 years), twice the Piano Competition "Jugend musiziert", Barcelona (2008 and 2009) Piano Competition of the Vila de Salou (2008), L'Arjau Musical Competition (2009), the second prize in the International Piano Foundation's Don Juan de Borbon, Santa Cecilia, (Segovia, 2008). He also won the special prize of the contest "Tu si que vales" (2012) channel Telecinco.

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Michael Andreas - La danza de las abejas



Michael Andreas - MOZART, SONATA 545 ALEGRO



Michael Andreas Haeringer, Beethoven, Sonata Op.2/3



Michael Andreas Haeringer, Chopin, Etude Op. 10 No.2



Michael Andreas Haeringer, Mozart, Sonata KV 310, Allegro maestoso

James Newton Howard

James Newton Howard (born June 9, 1951) is an American composer best known for his scores to motion pictures. He is one of the most popular and respected composers for cinema, and has scored over 100 films. The recipient of eight Academy Award nominations, some of Howard's best known film scores include The Prince of Tides (1991), The Fugitive (1993), Dinosaur (2000), King Kong (2005), I Am Legend (2007), and, most recently Green Lantern (2011). He is also known for his collaboration with director M. Night Shyamalan, having scored all his films since The Sixth Sense (1999).

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Unbreakable SoundTrack - The Orange Man

Paco de Lucía

Francisco Gustavo Sánchez Gomes (21 December 1947 – 26 February 2014), known as Paco de Lucía, was a Spanish flamenco composer, guitarist and producer. A leading proponent of the New Flamenco style, he helped legitimize flamenco among the establishment in Spain, and was one of the first flamenco guitarists to have successfully crossed over into other genres of music such as classical and jazz. Richard Chapman andEric Clapton, authors of Guitar: Music, History, Players, describe de Lucía as a "titanic figure in the world of flamenco guitar",^[1] and Dennis Koster, author of Guitar Atlas, Flamenco, has referred to de Lucía as "one of history's greatest guitarists."^[2]

De Lucía was noted for his fast and fluent picados (fingerstyle runs). A master of contrast, he often juxtaposed picados and rasgueados (Flamenco strumming) with more sensitive playing and was known for adding abstract chords and scale tones to his compositions with jazz influences. These innovations saw him play a key role in the development of traditional Flamenco and the evolution of 'New Flamenco' and Latin jazz fusion from the 1970s. He received acclaim for his recordings with flamenco singer Camarón de la Isla in the 1970s, recording ten albums which are considered some of the most important and influential in Flamenco history.^[3]

Some of De Lucía's best known recordings include Río Ancho (later fused with Al Di Meola's Mediterranean Sundance), Entre dos aguas, La Barrosa, Ímpetu, Cepa Andaluza and Gloria al Niño Ricardo. His collaborations with guitarists John McLaughlin, Al Di Meola and Larry Coryell in the late 1970s saw him gain wider popularity outside his native Spain. De Lucía formed the Paco de Lucía Sextet in 1981 with his brothers, singerPepe de Lucía and guitarist Ramón de Algeciras, and collaborated with jazz pianist Chick Corea on their 1990 album, Zyryab. In 1992, he performed live at Expo '92 in Seville and a year later on the Plaza Mayor in Madrid. Starting in 2004 he greatly reduced his public performances, retiring from full touring, and typically gave several concerts a year, usually in Spain and Germany and at European festivals during the summer months.

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Paco de Lucia - Entre dos aguas (1976)



Paco de lucia-solea


Paco De Lucia - Tico Tico


Paco de Lucia - Rio Ancho

Kevin Kern

Kevin Kern (born Kevin Lark Gibbs on December 22, 1958) is an American pianist, composer and recording artist of New Age music. He was born in Detroit, Michigan. He is now generally recognized as a representative of the New Age style. Born legally blind, Kern is aided in studio by SONAR’s accessibility and Dancing Dots’ assistive music technologies for the vision impaired.

Kevin was found playing "Silent Night" on the piano at 18 months of age. He started learning the piano regularly at 4 and began writing music at 8. At 14, he put on performances with the music group he founded called "The Well-Tempered Clavichord". Despite his poor vision (he's been legally blind since birth), he was still determined to be a pianist. His first performance in Asia was in Taiwan, in 2002. He has released nine albums, including a compilation album, and two songbooks, and is working on a new album. He also has released a Japan-only CD and songbook. Kern is married to Pamela Gibbs, who has helped him on his albums and plays the rainstick on The Winding Path; Kern mentions her in the credits in his later albums.

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Kevin Kern - Sundial Dreams




Kevin Kern - The Enchanted Garden




Through the Arbor - Kevin Kern

George Winston

George Winston (born 1949) is an American pianist who was born in Michigan, and grew up mainly in Miles City, Montana, as well as Mississippi and Florida. He attended Stetson University in Deland, Florida, and lives in Santa Cruz, California.

George Winston was first recorded by John Fahey for Fahey's Takoma Records. The album Ballads and Blues disappeared without much notice, although it was later reissued on Winston's Dancing Cat Records. However, in 1979, William Ackerman talked with Winston about having Winston record for Ackerman's new record label, Windham Hill Records. At first Winston played some guitar pieces he liked and then he played some of his nighttime music on the piano, which became the basis for the record Autumn, which Ackerman produced. Autumn soon became the best-selling record in the Windham Hill catalog,[citation needed] and his albums December and Winter into Spring both went platinum (million-plus sales in the United States). He has recorded 7 more solo piano albums, and he is one of the best known performers playing contemporary instrumental music.

Winston was 16 when Charles Schulz's A Charlie Brown Christmas premiered in 1965, and he ran out and bought the soundtrack the next day.He eagerly awaited each new Peanuts special to hear Guaraldi's newest music. In 1996, Winston released Linus and Lucy – The Music of Vince Guaraldi. Much of the album is devoted to the theme music Guaraldi wrote for the Peanuts cartoons: 15 television specials and one feature film from 1965 until Guaraldi’s death in 1976. "I love his melodies and his chord progressions," Winston said of Guaraldi. "He has a really personal way of doing voicings."Winston recorded a follow-up album, Love Will Come – The Music of Vince Guaraldi, Volume 2, released in February 2010.

Winston's 2002 album Night Divides the Day – The Music of the Doors took the music of the 1960s band The Doors and transformed it into solo pianos. The title of Winston's album is a lyric from "Break on Through (To the Other Side)", the first track of the Doors' self-titled first album.

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The Carol Of The Bells -George Winston


George Winston - Blossom/Meadow


Rain - George Winston


George Winston - Colors/Dance

Basil Poledouris

Vassilis Konstantinos "Basil" Poledouris (August 21, 1945 – November 8, 2006) was a Greek-American music composer who concentrated on the scores for films and television shows. Poledouris won the Emmy Award for Best Musical Score for work on part four of the TV miniseries Lonesome Dove in 1989.

Born in Kansas City, Missouri, Basil Poledouris credited two influences with guiding him towards music: the first was composer Miklós Rózsa; the second his own Greek Orthodox heritage. Poledouris was raised in the Church, and he used to sit in services enthralled with the choir's sound. At the age of seven, Poledouris began piano lessons, and after high school graduation, he enrolled at the University of Southern California to study both filmmaking and music. Several short films to which he contributed are still kept in the university's archives. At U.S.C., Poledouris met movie directors John Milius and Randal Kleiser, with whom he would later collaborate as a music composer. In 1985, Poledouris wrote the music for the movie Flesh & Blood of Dutch director Paul Verhoeven, establishing another durable collaboration in films.

Poledouris became renowned for his "powerfully epic style" of orchestral composition and "intricate thematic designs". He scored the music soundtrack for The Blue Lagoon (1980; dir: Kleiser); Conan the Barbarian (1982; dir: Milius); Conan the Destroyer (1984); Red Dawn (1984; dir: Milius), RoboCop (1987; dir: Verhoeven); The Hunt for Red October (1990); Free Willy (1993) and its first sequel; Starship Troopers (1997; dir: Verhoeven); and For Love of the Game (1999).

Poledouris's studio, "Blowtorch Flats", is located in Venice, California, and is a professional mixing facility specializing in film and media production.

Poledouris married his wife Bobbie in 1969; they had two daughters, Zoë and Alexis. His elder daughter, Zoë Poledouris, is an actress and film composer, who occasionally collaborated with her father in composing film soundtracks.

Poledouris's score for Conan the Barbarian is considered by many to be one of the finest examples of motion picture scoring ever written.

In 1996, Poledouris composed the "The Tradition of the Games" for the Atlanta Olympics opening ceremony that accompanied the memorable dance tribute to the athletes and goddesses of victory of the ancient Greek Olympics using silhouette imagery.

Poledouris spent the last four years of his life residing on Vashon Island, in Washington State. He died on November 8, 2006, in Los Angeles, California, aged 61, from cancer.

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Basil Poledouris - Riddle of Steel / Riders of Doom


Conan The Symphony - Part 1 (Anvil of Crom - Riddle of Steel / Riders of Doom)


Les Miserables


Conan the barbarian OST 1982 (full album)


Basil Poledouris - Hymn To Red October


Robocop