Performing Concert Artists
Lisa Downing - Piano
Multiple award winning, international composer, concert and recording artist, Lisa is re-defining the genre of solo piano. She is a compelling storyteller describing the unique inspiration for her creative neo-classical solo piano compositions.
The Great-Granddaughter of an African-American slave, her ancestery also includes European and Native-American Choctaw/Chicasaw tribes of the Southern United States.
Lisa’s Poly-ethnicity provides her with a truly unique perspective regarding culture and her own brand of personal spirituality. Lisa’s narritaves of her compositions create parables that reach into the collective hopes and fears of human experience – revealing the true unity we all share.
The Great-Granddaughter of an African-American slave, her ancestery also includes European and Native-American Choctaw/Chicasaw tribes of the Southern United States.
Lisa’s Poly-ethnicity provides her with a truly unique perspective regarding culture and her own brand of personal spirituality. Lisa’s narritaves of her compositions create parables that reach into the collective hopes and fears of human experience – revealing the true unity we all share.
David Lanz - Piano
Grammy-nominated David Lanz is a contemporary instrumental legend whose deeply-felt compositions helped forge the New Age music movement over 20 years ago. Since then, hundreds of thousands of fans around the world have embraced his music which is infused with a passion and tranquility much sought after in the face of today's hectic world.
Playing the piano, Lanz says, is his greatest form of self-expression, especially at his concert performances where he effortlessly blends his emotionally affecting music ("a gift to the soul" wrote a recent reviewer) with audience involvement and his own charming comic take on what it's like to be a SNAG. |
Suzanne Ciani - Piano
Suzanne Ciani is a composer, recording artist, and pioneer in the field of electronic music and sound design. She is best loved for her fifteen albums of original music which feature her performances in a broad array of expressions: pure electronic, solo piano, piano with orchestra, and piano with jazz ensemble. Her music, renowned for its romantic, healing, and aesthetic qualities, has found a rapidly growing international audience, and her performances include numerous benefits for humanitarian causes.
Currently Ciani resides in Northern California where, in 1995, she established her own record label, Seventh Wave. Ciani felt the need to own and control her own creative work. "In many ways, this label represents the culmination of the long journey of my evolution as a recording artist," says Ciani. |
Peter Kater - Piano
Peter's early contemporary instrumental recordings; his visionary soundtracks for television and film; and his collaborations with Native American and Tibetan artists helped create the foundation for the existence of an entirely new genre of music and some very successful and resourceful new record labels. Millions of sales units later the New Age and Native American Music markets have outsold and performed most other niche genres.
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Julio Mazziotti - Piano
Julio is a strong and masterful artist at the piano. His powerful original pieces will energize you and stir your most passionate emotions.
A native of Mendoza, Argentina, Julio performs in concert worldwide to fascinated and adoring audiences. A Julio Mazziotti concert is a rich and memorable experience not to be missed! |
Fiona Joy Hawkins - Piano
Once heard, one doesn't easily forget Celtic/New Age artist Fiona Joy Hawkins' beautiful piano and vocals, she is often referred to as an 'Australian Enya'
An ARIA Finalist in 2009 with Blue Dream (ABC Music Australia), Fiona Joy is currently a 2013 Independent Music Awards Finalist for Best New Age Album and Best LIVE Performance. This year she celebrates her participation in The Gathering and the release of her most epic and significant album 600 Years in Moment. "One of the brightest lights in the contemporary instrumental genre, Fiona Joy Hawkins is poised to move into stardom." Will Ackerman, Founder of Windham Hill Records |
Joseph Akins - Piano
Based in greater Nashville, Dr. Joseph Akins (pronounced “Ache-inns”) is a pianist/composer and associate professor at Middle Tennessee State University. He has released four solo albums, including A Piano Christmas (2011), nominated as Best Holiday Album of the Year at SoloPiano.com, and Spirit Touch (2009), included in the Top 40 Solo Piano Albums of the Decade, 2000 – 2009, at MainlyPiano.com. Joseph earned his doctorate in education from Tennessee State University in 2006. |
Kori Linae Carothers - Piano
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Michael Dulin - Piano
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Kori’s saga is filled with a love affair for music. From the time she heard the “Beatles” as a child, she knew she wanted to create music. Kori chose to create instrumental music that infuses electronic and acoustic sounds. Her main instrument, the piano speaks with clarity, and she also can move effortlessly to the keyboards as well as Native American flute. When Words Are Not Enough….listen to Kori’s music and you can feel what she is saying.
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Michael Dulin, a native of Brookside, Alabama, received his musical training at Birmingham-Southern College and the Juilliard School in New York, where he worked with master teacher and concert pianist Adele Marcus.
He was a finalist in the Carnegie Hall International Piano Competition, and was awarded the Silver Medal in the Second Annual International Audio-Video Competition in New York. In addition to performing his original music throughout the United States, Michael appears both solo and with orchestra in performances of classical music. He has also toured as keyboardist with the legendary Motown group, the Temptation Michael’s albums of original music have twice been awarded the prestigious Lifestyle Music Award. Four of his albums have reached the #1 spot on NAR World Airplay Charts. His music has been licensed for release in South America, Korea, Japan and Malaysia. |
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