le courage d'aimer is an introspective end to the Trois petits morceaux piano EP.. it starts with a waltz but then the dream journeys on to tell a story of the heart..tribute to Piano Day.

Close your eyes
Let it go…
The feeling of impossibility
Lurking in the depths of the mind
Suffocating your Dreams

You can make it subside
Keep Hope Alive
The impossible is possible
The unreachable is reachable
Through the Love of others

It will come..
~SEC

Trois petits morceaux releases to streaming:
31 March: https://gyro.to/ladansedebbcygne
21 April: https://gyro.to/Troispetitsmorceaux
24 Feb: https://gyro.to/rendezvousdumatin

Trois petits morceaux

le courage d'aimer

Lamentation for a Lost Life - Max Richter.mp3

New Piano Performance from Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv2CS_iUozc

New music recorded and coming. Sorry I should get back to orchestral. Playlists seem to like piano. It is the anniversary of my father's passing so October is a sad month. Also, had recurrent symptoms perhaps from the removed brain tumor.. needed medical therapy for a while.

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Sheet music to my last five originals on my website (shop): EP Trois petits morceaux, Morning Breeze in D, Fantasia in A minor (piano an violin)
(9 Oct newlsetter): https://shoutout.wix.com/so/72Oi76uGp?languageTag=en

Thoughts on a Still Night (releases 27 Oct): https://gyro.to/ThoughtsonaStillNight
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New Piano EP coming soon: Un peu de romance de le temps
Somewhere in Time
Moon River
Over the Rainbow


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Autumn Leaves: New, Now out! https://gyro.to/147757-AutumnLeaves


By request I have made a CD of my works. They are now here and on on my website and Bandcamp. C'est la vie.. (18 original works and one Disney cover). This includes my new EP Fantasia in A Minor!
https://www.sharonelainechen.com/product-page/cd-c-es-la-vie
Bandcamp: https://sharonchen.bandcamp.com/album/cest-la-vie

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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SharonChenMusic

Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/artist/5J4qO2f9cbZ6Tge1nIaiOp?si=PaHMFpVoTBCJhZ0AqEcuHA

Second moniker:
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3aykfWas9WNkv4aBEnTIN5?si=cQKJx-LERk2V9zwnaqqvqA

Autumn Leaves

4th most listened Finnish pianist (Spotify 12/2023) releases solo piano album
from legendary Mons Records
”Intimate & emotional (…) pure sincerity”
— Active Light Records, Canada
”Soul’s melody hums, echoes of heart’s true song, harmony within.”
— Piano Haiku
Finland’s only Piano Balladist, Heikki Hallanoro, makes a strong melodic mark
with his sensitive and delicate piano pieces that are delivered with such a
tenderness and bold simplicity that it is not just beautiful but simply – shines
truth.
Heikki, once a promising astronomer who discovered the origins of Saturn’s
rings, a boy of an alcoholic mother who has no classical training, but who has
played his own songs on piano since a little boy and makes his living playing
live his ennobling and relaxing Piano Ballads, got immediately signed with
his first piano solo album by legendary jazz/classical record company Mons
Records, a label that has released albums from such artists as Clark Terry
(trumpetist of Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington), Manu Katché (drummer of
Sting, Peter Gabriel, Joni Mitchell) and Bob Mintzer (saxophonist of Buddy
Rich, Jaco Pastorius, Tito Puente), among others.
Bon Voyage!
Soul Songs album comprises 8 felt piano pieces that unite minimalistic modern
classical idiom and Arvo Pärt kind of quietness and spirituality. Soul Songs are
not named but numbered (Soul Song No. 1, Soul Song No. 2, etc.), but they
paint vivid scenes. “My intension was to create safe and comforting space for
listener to embark on inner journey.” Heikki didn’t want to name the songs
and direct listeners impression any way since he knew from own experience
that same song can evoke different emotions and memories at different times.
“Songs are continuous and ever-evolving, and they work like magic, since so
are we.”
Old piano like mother elephant
On Soul Songs album Heikki plays over 100 years old piano. It has extremely
dark sound, behaves like a mother elephant, who remembers too many
graveyards. Recordings were engineered by the studio guru Pentti Amore
with 3 gold albums and a the most sold physical album in Finland 2020. Pentti
also mixed and mastered the album. “Presence of both of them, Piano and
Heikki, in this album is unbelievable. The setup is so sensitive – it captures all.”
— Pentti Amore

Soul Songs are Heikki Hallanoro’s life’s work
Soul Songs album series will continue. Soul Songs Vol. 2 is already recorded.
In Soul Songs album series the even albums (Soul Songs Vol. 2, Soul Songs
Vol. 4, etc.) are happy “spring/summer” albums and odd albums (Soul Songs,
Soul Songs Vol. 3, etc.) are more melancholic “winter” albums with darker hues in them.

Soul Song No. 1 - Heikki Hallanoro Repair

Relaxing classical instrumental with a piano and violins.
Scheduled to be released on all music platforms on March 27, 2024.

Enchanted Nightfall

Enchanted Nightfall - Classical

Dancing on clouds - tavli

This is a track we help promote because we find it pleasant! https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0J7EFptNh6K6Qebrsrcx8d?si=ae32df247fdd4a1d


Dance Of Twilight

Impressions

Monet's Garden

The Light shines. in the darkness, but the darkness could not overcome it.

Buy / Stream

Jesus Holds My Hand

Newtown

crimson twilight 12.12.25

Pre-save 7 Nov
https://gyro.to/392536-WhiteChristmas

Pre-save 14 Nov
https://gyro.to/392541-TheChristmasSong

Reflection (Mulan) Piano Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou_sDnfI6-g

Piano Live 4 Nov. 6 PM PST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St4kyaLGIYw
16 Oct News: https://sharonelainechen.com/so/34PdBQjWB?languageTag=en

Thanks for subbing to my YouTube for piano and violin performances/lives! https://www.youtube.com/c/SharonChenMusic

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Classically-trained, award-nominated composer. What Was I Made For? won Steve Sheppard’s Award for Best Single in April 2024, One World Music Radio, UK. Blissful and Beyond Album won third place Best Album (Sept ’24) Harvard College graduate with honors in Music and East Asian Languages and Civilizations.. I am a poet, dreamer; see my poems on Twitter. 

My songs tell stories of darkness evolving into light. I play piano lives on many medias - classical, jazz, neoclassical and somewhere in-between. My YouTube has over 640k views in classical, originals, jazz. Each of my feel-good orchestral works from Blissful and Beyond album has a story of gratitude.

New EP’s in progress in different genres. Disney/jazz (Once Upon a Time, Long,Long Ago);  Album, The Five Elements - wood, water, metal, earth, fire - elements intrinsic to ancient Chinese philosophy, poetry, landscape art.. works either sounds Chinese or western with Chinese philosophy behind it. Chopin EP with new and classic takes. 10 million+ Spotify streams.
https://www.sharonelainechen.com/ 

Watch for originals and covers on both instruments on YouTube and Spotify. Thanks for subbing to my YouTube and following me on Spotify. Find different works on my Bandcamp, One World Music Radio too.
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Dawn of the morning lightly caresses
The moon touch of our hearts reveals 
In the blackest of nights..
In the breathlessness of circumstances 
The embracing hearts slowly heals..

~SEC

le courage d'aimer

Sharon Chen Music