God it's amazing to think this is improv, your brain is amazing.

Fantastic music and performance 😊🎶👏

wow the maturity of the Improvisation like water...

Another amazing improvisation! You seem to be at your best when you extemporize.

Let There Be Light

Somewhere (Piano Solo) - Till Indy

Composed by Till Indy
Piano: Till Indy
© Till Indy 2021

Somewhere | Till Indy

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxpKNJFDUm4
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Someone once said that symphonic orchestra is the most sophisticated musical instrument humanity ever invented. And I always felt like this is an ultimate challenge for a composer to write music for such a giant. I started my first shy attempts to compose orchestral music a few years ago. Of course, at that time it was all done using digital libraries. I did dream that one day I may experience the thrill of hearing a live orchestra performing my compositions but that was truly an ephemeral dream, no actual plans to do it. Until now.

This summer my husband and I took a composing course (focusing on film composing). As a part of that course I had a homework: to compose a piece for a string orchestra. I chose the solo piano piece I wrote earlier this year as a foundation. It took a few evenings to come up with the orchestral arrangements - again, using digital libraries... at first! But then my husband said that he feels like this piece deserves to be recorded with live orchestra. And so it happened - two months ago we hired a session orchestra from Budapest. We only had half an hour session to record 2.5 minutes of this composition. Gosh, it was such an amazing experience! When I heard 40 musicians playing the harmony I burst in tears. Then I was shocked again to learn that my composition was nominated for Hollywood Music in Media Awards.

I called this piece "Distant Memories". It was written during one of the lockdowns when I was on the edge of breaking down. I devoted it to my mom, who lives on the other side of Atlantic but she used to come here every year.. until 2020.. and then 2021.. I hope we will see each other next year. But meanwhile all we have are those "distant memories".

The original piano solo version is coming next week!

"Distant Memories" (Orchestral) by Milana Zilnik

Classical improvisation 23

Classical Improvisation 23

Thinking about my daddy and me.  Our last picture together.

Many thanks to David Dunham for mastering my track. @david-dunhamuser589535203

I Wish

Reflections in Motion

The Painting (Arranged for Piano and Orchestra)

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hope

Piano Sonata No.1, In C Minor, Movement 1

Dedicated to Nikki. 
art photo: Åshild Eikli Hiorth
Video Werner Busch and Mali Beinhorn:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlWgD_1suXE&feature=youtu.beguitar and 
Guitar and guitarcomposition: Ivan Ujevic https://soundcloud.com/themonkbythesea
melody for the vocal, lyrics and voice : Oddrun Eikli
strings and everything else: Vicente Buesohttps://soundcloud.com/scienceteheran

Dear Vicente, dear Ivan, thank you so much for the wonderful joy sharing music.

Butterfly
your purple spots
a golden ring
in lively blue
a rainbow in your wings

my butterfly fly
my butterfly fly

creature of gold
so burdenless
and innocent
flying hight
into the summersky

my butterfly

Butterfly. (Nikki`s Song.)The Monk by the Sea, Science Teheran, Oddrun Eikli

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Orchestral... (Piano et orchestre)

This composition was inspired by a reading of the poem, "The Swan" by Mary Oliver.

The Swan

Did you too see it, drifting, all night, on the black river?
Did you see it in the morning, rising into the silvery air -
An armful of white blossoms,
A perfect commotion of silk and linen as it leaned
into the bondage of its wings; a snowbank, a bank of lilies,
Biting the air with its black beak?
Did you hear it, fluting and whistling
A shrill dark music - like the rain pelting the trees - like a waterfall
Knifing down the black ledges?
And did you see it, finally, just under the clouds -
A white cross Streaming across the sky, its feet
Like black leaves, its wings Like the stretching light of the river?
And did you feel it, in your heart, how it pertained to everything?
And have you too finally figured out what beauty is for?
And have you changed your life?

So Says the Swan

Link to my Spotify page: https://open.spotify.com/artist/78eAAyVeuhJQtoybIEcv27?si=yTZ3BXaEReaBH0OBZdwFRw 
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Hello everybody. I  am Andrej Zatkalík from Bratislava, Slovakia.

My first musical steps  began in childhood  at the age of 8, when I started playing the piano. I learnt at the local musical school for the next seven years. From that time on, my greatest passion has been piano improvising.  It’s like an open-ended adventure to put your fingers on the piano keys and let your soul speak with the universal language of music!

I often play around with simple musical motifs, adding changes and variations to them. That way I create my improvisations.

Sometimes I record myself playing, and by listening back I can find some interesting melodies or chord progressions, which I don’t remember playing. My music is mostly unplanned, and the majority of my piano pieces I have created during one evening, which is why I often use the word “evening“ or “night“ in title name.

Beside piano improvisations I have also recorded  some piano covers and some orchestral compositions. My main musical influences include classical music, especially the music of J.S. Bach, but I also like modern music.

Since two years ago I have been uploading  my improvisations and other pieces to Soundcloud and joined The Piano Cloud community. Two of my tracks have been reviewed on this site:

Ocean Improvisation
Night Improvisation 3
In future I would like – beside my main focus, which is the piano – to try some more orchestral music compositions.

Contact:   andrej.zatkalik@gmail.com

Classical Improvisation 23

Andrej Zatkalik

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