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

Part of the Facet series of sculpted improvisations.

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A new collaboration with Maneli Jamal, being also a cover of a song of his with Nylonwings; a soft felt piano song written while being away from your loves ones and how music can connect us no matter how far we may be from each other.

Across

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Bildet er tatt av bess.hamiti@gmail.com fra Pixabay

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The sound of our latest, brand new model of an Una Corda Piano - the 64-key Una Corda in Oak wood, without a steel frame. Listen in and feel those special vibes, there's hardly any description that would do it justice. This particular piano will go to Japan and will be presented at the Fuji City Festival on July 23, 2023, by the brilliant pianist and representative for Klavins Pianos in Japan - Katsushi Sakamoto!

Contemplating Japan

ASCENSIONES IV / ASCENSIONS IV (2023)
Sheet music PDF: http://www.carbajo.net/pdf/obra/carbajo-ascensions_iv-2023-pf.pdf
Web: http://www.carbajo.net/obra/obra-2023-i.html#ascensiones
IMSLP: https://bit.ly/458VUKL
Music score video (YouTube): https://youtu.be/RR41wSCk5io
Music score video (Vimeo): https://vimeo.com/849870130
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/carbajo/sets/ascensions-iv
My piano works: http://www.carbajo.net/obra/obra-piano-i.html

Víctor Carbajo - Piano Music

Ascensions IV - 1. Cantabile

Blessings

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Träumerei (Dreaming)

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Ashot Danielyan plays Robert Schumann - Träumerei (Dreaming)

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Classical pianist and composer on nights and weekends. Digital media executive and content producer. I live in North Carolina, USA, with my wife, two dogs, and Brodmann grand piano. 

Attended Manhattan School of Music, piano performance study with Artur Balsam. Previous teachers were John Heiss, Myron Klempner, and Olga Barabini. 

I choose daily between practicing standard repertoire and composing original piano pieces. I end up doing both and recording whenever possible.

Thank you for listening!

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Brad Hill