Recorded Live @ Pianoforte on April 27, 2019
Released on Earth Day 2021
To see the full live performance please follow this link: https://youtu.be/3Fi1pCsSsh8?t=1

Solemn Empyrean (Serenades for Mother Earth) EarthDay2021

Exhortations

First movement of  Solemn Empyrean (Serenades for Mother Earth)
Recorded live at Pianoforte, Chicago on April 27th, 2019

The Decline

Second Movement of Solemn Empyrean (Serenades for Mother Earth)
Recorded live at Pianoforte, Chicago on April 27th, 2019

Acid Rain

Third movement of Solemn Empyrean ( Serenades for Mother Earth)
Recorded live at Pianoforte, Chicago on April 27th 2019
For the dying forests

Echo Wood Endless Woe

Forth movement to Solemn Empyrean ( Serenades for Mother Earth)
Recorded live at Pianoforte, Chicago on April 27th, 2019

Iceberg

Fifth Movement of Solemn Empyrean (Serenades for Mother Earth)
Recorded live at Pianoforte on April 27th, 2019

For the dying oceans, seas, lakes and rivers...

Oceania

Improvised and Recorded on May 7th 2021 for Piano Soundboard Color Challenge

Turquoise

Improvised on May 11th 2021
In loving memory of Keith Gilroy

swept away too soon

il neigeait

Improvised on October 28th for four chord challenge

Falling Leaves

Recorded at Pianoforte, Chicago on July 30th 2021,
Performed on a Fazioli Grand Piano 
In loving memory of my parents
Released on their 75th Wedding Anniversary. December 21st 2021

Notes To Heaven

Improvised and Recorded on March 25th 2022

(Piano Day 2022) Close To The Edge Of An Apocalypse

Demo track from the upcoming album "Exhortations" 
Recorded at Pianoforte on June 21st 2021
Composed January - March 2020

Atonement ( Demo )from "Exhortations"

Recorded at Pianoforte, Chicago on October 15th, 2021

The Overcoming (Demo) From "Exhortations"

Recorded at Pianoforte on June 21st 2021
For Martin Luther King Jr.

The light that surrounds us (Demo) From "Exhortations"

Recorded at Pianoforte, Chicago on July 30, 2021

Love Conquers All (Demo) From "Exhortations" album

Recorded at Pianoforte, Chicago on January 21, 2022

Moments lost (Demo) From "Exhortations" album

Recorded at Pianoforte, Chicago on July 30th, 2021
Composed by D.M.Stoermer and Kokumo Kinetic
Inspired the Kokumo's song "The night is long"
 
For my friend and fellow musician Kokumo Kinetic

Persevere (Demo) from "Exhortations" Album

Recorded at Pianoforte, Chicago on December 3rd 2021

BLM (Demo) from "Exhortations" Album

Juneteenth (Demo) from "Exhortations" Album

Written for my dear friend Soto aka Lisa Peterson, Rest in peace my fierce and stunning friend,

Recorded at Pianoforte on August 18th 2021
 
part i  - Torch
part ii - When We Were Stunning And Fierce

Torch /When We Were Stunning And Fierce

Recorded at Pianoforte, Chicago on October 15th 2021

September Song

This is a work in progress with Nikolas Lund. It was done in one take, no edit, just a little addition...  Not sure  if I want to add it to our contours project.

the oak tree

Photograph by Jessica Housley
Recorded at Paragon Studios on June 8th 2014
Steinway Grand Piano

Benevolence

Improvisation for Piano. Recorded live at Pianoforte, Chicago on November 16th 2014.
Fazioli Grand Piano

a sea of distant memories

Piano improvisation recorded live November 21, 2015 at Pianoforte, Chicago.
Main theme from Overfrozenfields written by Nikolas Lund https://soundcloud.com/nikolas-lund/tracks for our electronic project  https://soundcloud.com/contours-2 Contours*
Links to electronic versions that inspired this improvisation are here: https://soundcloud.com/contours-2/overfrozenfields
https://soundcloud.com/contours-2/liquid-surfaces-evaporate
   
For Nikolas Lund

Improvisation On Overfrozenfields - Liquidsurfacesevaporate

This is one of my earlier works and a semi-improvised piano sketch of my Symphony no2  Main theme and second movement titled "Never Understood".

Performed live @ Pianoforte on November 21st, 2015.  


That's all that I have

Recorded at Pianoforte on March 9th 2016
For Dawn Tate and Janine Twining

Hope (for Dawn)

Improvisation on third movement of Overflow, Piano Concerto no3 in B Major.  Written with love for my mother Lois Stoermer. 
Recorded at Pianoforte, Chicago on March 9th 2016.
Yamaha Concert DCFX 9'

Overflow   (movement iii)

Sun rays

Written on December 15th, 1991. Performed live at Pianoforte on November 12th, 2016.

In loving memory of J.F.Mesa

If only the roses never withered (my love)

Recorded live at Pianoforte on November 12th, 2016

In loving memory of J.F. Mesa

Ardor Euphonius

Improvised and Recorded at Reeves Studio on April 27, 2017

a flower's demise

Recorded at Reeves Studio, Evanston Il.

In loving memory of J.F. Mesa
Jan. 25th 1964-Dec. 14th 1991

Though we've only known each other for a little while here on this earth, you have inspired me a lifetime.

Always Going To Be

(the light of the moon sparkling on the water)

la lumière de la lune miroitant sur l’eau

Oceania (from the Serenades Solemn Empyrean)

Recorded on February 27th, 2018 @ AiR Chicago

when the warmth returns

slumberland slumberland
it's not so far away
all you need to do is close your eyes and dream
drift away far away tumble in the clouds. 

Slumberland

a frolic in the autumn twilight

In times of darkness we look toward the light

Recorded live at Pianoforte, Chicago on April 27th 2019

Video of performance on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/cuCMRPpRFug

Painting by Adam Thomas https://www.facebook.com/TheArtofAdamThomas

In Loving Memory of Dawn J. Tate and Mary Isabel Lee

Piercing The Clouds - Piano Day 2020

...for the homeless

Recorded with the windows open so that one can hear the sounds of the city. Especially the "L" train. 
Performed on a Schimmel Grand Piano @ Pianoforte, June 4th 2013
Photo by myself

They that dream also...

Hello and Welcome!     

It is so very wonderful to have discovered a beautiful world of music here on soundcloud. So many talented composers, musicians and artists. This is awesome and overwhelming at the same time... 
                  
I have always considered myself to be mainly a composer and then a pianist. I have been writing my own works since the age of 16. The first instrument that I ever played was a violin at age 6, then I began Classical piano training at age 7. My mother played violin, piano, organ and sang in the choir for the church we attended in my childhood... I hope that you will enjoy my music, it is an art that I love to work at every day....(to be continued)

Thank you for listening...

Cheers! Daniel :-)

Please visit and welcome my personal friend, multi-talented musician and composer John J. Langdon IV http://soundcloud.com/john-j-langdon-iv    

Please visit my extremely talented friend, composer, pianist, sound recording engineer and artist, etc. Nikolas Lund... now hear this 
http://soundcloud.com/nikolas-lund

Please visit another fine talented musician, singer, songwriter and friend/neighbor David Gaines https://soundcloud.com/david_m_gaines

Please visit and welcome another great musician, singer, songwriter and friend Darryl Pierson https://soundcloud.com/envue-music

To hear my first  studio recorded concept 
album LANDSCAPE please visit http://soundcloud.com/dmstoermer/sets/l-a-n-d-s-c-a-p-e/

d. m. stoermer

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