So beautiful orchestral elements here and choirs love your scence of music to these type of projects!

Orchestral and chamber playlist of more recent piano and strings work...

Emotional Piano and Strings

Simple & Pure is composed by Jane Johnson.

Simple And Pure

Monde

only this  8.21.25

4444

To celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, I wrote this piece, part of my new album. Proceeds go towards my medical expenses.
但愿人长久，千里共婵娟!
Though a thousand miles apart, we wish for a long life to share the graceful moonlight.
Available on BandCamp:
https://sharonchen.bandcamp.com/track/love-calls-from-the-mountaintops

Love Calls From The Mountaintops

26 June 2020:
Here are some free download codes to my song ‘Flower of Sorrow, the Dream’ at #BandCamp, released hours before my brain surgery in November.… Check out my latest releases too.. On July 3, 2020 BandCamp will waive their fee to help artists during the Covid-19 crisis. Hope you enjoy them and follow me on BandCamp! 

https://sharonchen.bandcamp.com/yum

zcaj-ynx4
3j78-bjma
w9w2-w6yb
eth5-hynx
ruef-jrqq
dw6l-ys6t
ppyh-7l87
jnvj-xzcu
6w98-eglp
ust2-3bv2
mqn5-hxzc
fgdg-v5yx
wu4z-yrbq
~~
Today is my brain surgery. While I will be in the hospital for a little while, I wanted to release this song, the first in a series from my album, Flower of Sorrow.  It is 'The Dream'..  Thanks for your support.  12/3/19 - Now on major platforms:

https://open.spotify.com/album/1MPNetrIEFZol2ivOpG5LT
https://music.apple.com/us/album/flower-of-sorrow-the-dream-single/1490160021?app=apple%20music&ign-mpt=uo%3D4
https://sharonchen.bandcamp.com/track/flower-of-sorrow-the-dream
https://www.deezer.com/us/album/121507002

Flower Of Sorrow, The Dream

Journey into time through the persona of the piano. Melody first played on Schimmel alone and then on Steinway D joined by violin and cellos. Part of my new album 'Winter Solstice'. Pre-cursor to 'Winter Sun'. Proceeds go towards my expenses for brain surgery and recovery. Thanks for your support! Now on BandCamp and being released on streaming platforms  (new mix version on BC and streaming platforms):

https://sharonchen.bandcamp.com/track/desert-serenade
YouTube piano performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44r6pule2FE
https://open.spotify.com/album/1j3k3w6eZ9Y7w73AHbNKiV
https://music.apple.com/us/album/desert-serenade-single/1498301072?app=apple%20music&ign-mpt=uo%3D4
https://music.apple.com/us/album/desert-serenade-single/1498301072?app=itunes&ign-mpt=uo%3D4
https://www.deezer.com/us/album/130806902
https://play.google.com/store/music/album/Sharon_Chen_Desert_Serenade?id=Baqmiefrms5lvtumnxdxabmxbz4
https://us.napster.com/artist/sharon-chen/album/desert-serenade
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B084LDBDXJ

Desert Serenade

8/9/20 Pre-order EP 'Blissful and Beyond' at BandCamp, includes new release 'Waves of my Heart' and six 
more...https://sharonchen.bandcamp.com/album/blissful-and-beyond-2

Thanks to Adam4le (https://soundcloud.com/adam4le) for his inspirational piano track. I improvised strings in one or takes on top of piano and mixed it with two reverbs. Solo strings and piano in a medium hall and larger string orchestra in a large hall. (I used the Medium Hall and the Dream Hall in Logic Pro.) Coming to streaming platforms. Proceeds go to my brain surgery and medical expenses. 

Through all heartaches and sorrows, the River Runs Through...

https://spoti.fi/2wPdPvc (Spotify)
https://apple.co/3cnkvkP (iTunes)
https://apple.co/2PABQg9  (AppleMusic)
https://sharonchen.bandcamp.com/track/river-runs-through
https://www.deezer.com/us/album/133781272
https://www.iheart.com/artist/sharon-chen-32687006/albums/river-runs-through-94030453/
https://play.google.com/store/music/album/Sharon_Chen_River_Runs_Through?id=B65f72dfxecc7susthnmhxntjmy
https://us.napster.com/artist/sharon-chen/album/river-runs-through

River Runs Through

12 Jan '21: New YouTube performance: https://youtu.be/A8RCDIktTkQ

Looking back, the character dreams of dimmed childhood aspirations... One goes on as Life continually challenges, always attempting to reach the picture perfect ideal in mind's eye. 

https://sharonchen.bandcamp.com/track/life-as-is
https://open.spotify.com/track/1hWXiqfJyd7kwMmAUzDtJn?si=riOM6NlzRG63YQbM5nRPEw
(I have a new mix of this on Spotify and BandCamp now).


I have released this song for #PianoDay2020. Whenever I put in a lot of strings, I am reminded of the Barber 'Adagio.'  In this track I combined several pianos to get a unique timbre.

Life...As Is... (PianoDay2020)

12 Jan '21: 
New YouTube: 
https://youtu.be/ZAUHeDIsrNk

On Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/track/40GsRYroCAz8rMtWiYPDea?si=hBOxgEU_RbaPIeWb00LXqQ

New piano and orchestra work for #PianoDay2020…Different from my norm, this work is fantastical, whimsical, and uses granular synthesis as well as tuned percussion, harp, and guitar. String flautando and harmonics create the sotte voce effect. Dedicated to my friend Lisa who has terminal cancer. Just learned Lisa passed away on 4/1. May she be in eternal peace...
https://sharonchen.bandcamp.com/track/silence-of-the-moonlight
YouTube pre-release piano performance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GzwsqgN7Ag

Silence Of The Moonlight (PianoDay2020)

"People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?" -  Claude Debussy

The sheet music of some of my compositions can be downloaded from my website https://pianoimprovictor.com/
If you like my music – share it with your friends!

Oblivion - Piano Improvisation

Waiting For The Leaves. 
Out now. See link in bio. 


Featuring:
Richard Brewer - Guitar
Jon Read - Flugelhorn
Matt Steady - Violin/Viola

Mixed and Mastered by Adam Ellis. 

Words and Music © Nic Evennett 2020

---

For Phil X

~~

Only you choose what it steals,
On days like these.
When the sun echos bright on glass of blues,
And we shield our eyes just to watch our shoes
Make a canvas of the frost.

And memories leak like oil on water.
We love the son, we love the daughter, always, still.
With this winter on the ground.

The blessings of the good we find
On days like these.
When a tear is caught by a hand unknown.
With the years gone by just a stepping stone
To a dawn on the other side.

And memories leak like oil on water.
We love the son, we love the daughter, always, still.
With this winter on the ground.

The night-time's cloak is swift and cold,
On days like these,
As we lose little birds who have taken flight.
But the sun makes a promise of stronger light,
In which they may return.

And memories leak like oil on water.
We love the son, we love the daughter, always, still.
With this winter on the ground.

Days Like These

Here is my first collaboration with piano artist and composer Yuuki Kamezawa. You can here more of his solo piano artistry at: https://www.youtube.com/user/YuukiKamezawa/videos

We hope to release a full collaboration album sometime in 2021 :-)

You Are More Precious Than Jewels - Featuring Yuuki Kamezawa

For this Christmas challenge I didn't want to play anything sweet and relaxing. Right now my mind is very focused on the frenzy of work that adds to the problems of the pandemic but also to the Christmas holidays that are coming. So my improvisation is for my mind a frantic awakening that sees me face a snowstorm on a sleigh pulled by horses used to this adventure. 
A sincere thanks and best wishes for a Happy Holidays to all of you and in particular to Simon Reich who organized the challenge.

A sleigh ride in the snow storm

Lucy: Lyrics
Racquel: Vocals
Philippe: Music
Acoustic guitars: Hugo LaNauEstudi
Mix: Ted Brennan
Photo : Pedro Figueras

Through The Morning Grey

A short track composed with only instruments from spitfire's LABS collection. I wanted to set myself the restrictions of only using LABS, only using 4 tracks, and writing the full composition in only an hour (I did some mixing separately). This is the result, which I hope you enjoy, although feedback is most welcome!

Image by Manfred Richter on pixabay

Winterbird

18 August 2025
https://sharonelainechen.com/so/11PYyZ4__?languageTag=en

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

~~~
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.
~~~

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

Love Calls From The Mountaintops

Sharon Chen Music

Recent comments

tomi

JCS

Christel Podeur

Yusuke Yachida

Related tracks