Brian Crain

Friends.... 

back on the piano, inspired by a wonderful vacation at the baltic sea and with some fresh music... Anmut will be the title track of the new album I am working on and planning to release in 2014. As per usual I am releasing all songs here on soundcloud before....

Thanks a lot to "Mirko Costantini" for his permission to use his awesome photo for my cover art for the upcoming album. 

Checkout his wonderful pictures at: 

http://www.mirkocostantini.it

Dirk Maassen - Anmut (www.facebook.com/Dirk.Maassen.Music)

Brian Crain - Pastel Garden

Brian Crain - At the Ivy Gate

Brian Crain Moonlit Shore

Flying

PLEASE SHARE & REPOST.
It's been many months since I last shared a new composition here. I hope you will enjoy this new one! 
As 2014 comes to an end and we look forward to the new year ahead, I hope this track might provide a simple soundtrack to your reflections, as it is for mine.
Happy New Year!

Looking Back, Looking Forward

While "Piano Solo" goes on I wanted to experiment a new piano sound and VST...I mixed this need with my personal feelings, and Les Adieux is the result..

This track is for all those that leave something....a place, a person, a love...memory remains the only thing that keep us alive.

https://www.facebook.com/GianMarcoLaSerra
http://www.reverbnation.com/gianmarcolaserra

http://open.spotify.com/album/4B5nyONn6zVNlqC8T0fUep
http://www.rdio.com/artist/Gian_Marco_La_Serra/album/Piano_Solo/



Les Adieux

Soul Resting

A Dream, A Vision, A Deja-vu

Now on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/0MRsawtij6a6X57xwhecw5?si=l0m0XxFUSjKFy02MSZOeNw

The Clown

My second album "Different Ways" is now on Spotify!

https://open.spotify.com/intl-tr/album/1KKm4xk6RZ4Ty4O5dGjxY5?si=EIb-PsrLSxOwN-pBk-FTKQ

Chaos

Hey,
There is my submission for the Piano Soundboard's 6 note sequence challenge, I wanted to try something, so here we are:) I choose the Una Corda to create this ambience, incredible virtual instrument by Nils Frahm, thanks a lot ! 
Description :
"Using the given sequence of 6 notes, compose variations, improvisation, development (a la sonata), fugue, or other form that uses the specific notes. You cannot change the sequence of the notes, but you can play them in any rhythm (i.e., time values). And of course, the harmonization is up to the composer. As always, the compositions must be piano solo or piano lead. Here is the note sequence, or merely look at the challenge artwork. The time value of the notes shown are not final, you can do as you please with that.
The notes are: E (above middle C)- C (octave above middle C), B, A , F#, D (all in the octave above middle C)."
Thanks for listening!
Composed, performed : Dame Géraldine
Recording&Mix : Dame Géraldine
Mastering: Jb Parisot

S i x

Some of the songs are featuring Cello & Piano others just fir the new age piano category. I'll keep updating as I go along. This entire set is by Brian Crain except the last two. Those are by Phillip Wesley

Go here to listen to even more of his songs and albums and I can get the song for you. Most of them I already got though.

http://www.briancrain.com/newpages/PCDuet1.html


Across the Bay Brian Crain

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Brian Crain - Wind

I've created this page just to show my support and spread the word about this very talented and creative pianist. 

Brian was born in Hollywood, California. He has been composing music as long as he can remember. Family members tell him that when he was very young he began whistling nearly all the time. When someone would ask what he was whistling, Brian would usually answer something like, "I don't know. I just made it up."

He was only six years old when his parents bought a baby grand piano, thinking that Brian's musical talents could use a more polished medium. But Brian continued to whistle his songs. He was not drawn to the keyboard.

When he was ten years old, Brian began taking piano lessons, but he soon became bored with the lessons. Besides, the piano took time away from his new passion, baseball. So he gave up the piano. His need to compose, however, would not be stopped. His friends would often hear him whistling his newest compositions during practice or games on the baseball diamond. At this young age, Brian was dreaming of becoming a professional baseball player while whistling his own songs.

When Brian was fifteen years old he began editing award-winning educational films. While he was still a teenager, he began doing sound on Hollywood films. At nineteen years of age, he built his own sound studio to complete the first feature-length film in Hollywood to be finished in R-DAT digital audio. Some of his technical innovations in post-production sound became standard Hollywood practice.

During this time Brian would occasionally sit down at that nearly forgotten piano. He would improvise at the keyboard, just as he had always improvised with his whistling, playing with the notes until something started sounding just right. He was, without realizing it, teaching himself to play the piano.

Also without intending to do it, Brian was training himself to compose at the piano. By his early twenties, he was composing songs for award-winning children's films. He was also still nurturing his dream of playing professional baseball, but after unsuccessful tryouts with professional teams, he sadly let that dream slip away.
It was during this time that his family suggested he record his personal piano works and release them on CD. He had never seriously considered recording for CD release, but when he recorded the first album, it was so well received that he now spends all his time composing and recording his own works. He continues to be encouraged by loyal fans who frequently tell him that his music has changed their lives. Now he jokes that the best thing that ever happened to him was not becoming a professional baseball player.

Brian's compositions Butterfly Waltz, Northern Lights, A Walk in the Forest and Lavender Hills are used as theme music and background music for television dramas and commercials in Asia. The use of Brian's music in this fashion has made him very popular in all of Asia.

In 2005 Brian composed his first two symphonies, entitled Spring Symphonies, which were recorded with the Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra. Brian debuted these symphonies with the Dakota Symphony Orchestra on Oct 8th 2005. He also performs regular piano concerts in Asia and the U.S. and is currently working on his eleventh album.

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