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.

Source: Wikipedia.

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