Uptempo rhythmic piano, uplifting, joyful, melodic and happy.

Moving On (Solo)

Études Op.3 No.34

written Rebecca Daniel  
Piano: Rebecca Daniel / Vocals: Fiona Joy Hawkins
When a life changing event alters your world, you need to focus on the mundane and ordinary daily existence as a way to carry on
‘Time you enjoy wasting was not wasted’ John Lennon

The Lightness of Dark

Necessity For The Mundane

Aqua 2 is an improvisation in the studio on the day of recording and very much a response to my thinking at the time about water.

Moving Through Worlds

Aqua 2

Tolling of the Fire Bell.  This song is about the marching and movement of time and so you can hear the fire bell tolling.  Its also an impressionistic modern piano piece and a story illustrated by cello and English horn

Tolling of the Fire Bell

Tolling Of The Fire Bell

Moving Through Worlds is a studio recording with instrumentation of a solo piece I had recorded with Blue Coast Records called Galloping.  It was about the music industry and how hard it is to keep up with it and survive as a professional musician.  I wanted to explore a string arrangement and I think it represents again a modern classical direction and the idea of worlds that are shifting/changing

Twilight Moment is a revisitation of Calling County Clare with elements from a number of the other pieces.  Its like a summary of the album and another visitation of my need to explore the Enya style vocals.  Its very much a vocal piece.  The album starts and finishes with the Calling County Clare theme but done in a completely different way.

Twilight Moment

Desert of Crystal is a piece I wrote mid career and wanted to revisit.  I have often been told my voice sound like Enya, and yet I had never done the big layered Enya style vocal pads.  I wanted to lift the piece and let it soar with a choral feel and the crystal sounds in the higher register of the violin to tell the story of Antarctica.  Crystal Desert is the nickname for Antarctica.  I have been there on an expedition cruise and have a fascination with Antarctica.

Desert of Crystal

Desert Of Crystal

Prelude in E Minor (Chopin, #4).  I always wanted to arrange this piece in a way that takes it a little out of the ‘funeral durge’ direction that I often feel when its played.  Chopin’s piece has quite a heavy chordal left hand and I wanted to break that up.  It’s a beautiful piece that I have lifted out of the classical period and into a more romantic modern space.  The cello is a stunning addition by Eugene Friesen.

Prelude in E Minor (Chopin, #4)

Prelude In E Minor (Chopin, #4)

All that is Left is about me putting my story of ghosts to bed.  Moving on from the issues that I had dealt with in my previous albums.  Its also telling the story of an outcome and to that end – what is left.

All That Is Left

Prayer for Rain has a Debussay’esque impressionistic style and also comes from the bushfires.  The music style crosses into the modern classical world.

Prayer For Rain

'My greatest hope and joy is for my music to make a difference...'  Fiona Joy Hawkins is an Australian Pianist, Singer, Composer, Speaker and international touring artist.  She is classically trained and inspired by her Celtic heritage, her work is considered ethereal music to dream to.

Living in rural Australia, Fiona has played New York’s Carnegie Hall, the New Orleans Jazz Museum, Sydney Opera House, Echoes/NPR Radio,  Grammy Museum & concert halls of China .
 
“One of the brightest lights in contemporary instrumental music, Fiona Joy is poised to move into stardom.”
- Will Ackerman, Founder Windham Hill Records
 
Inspired by Chopin, Mendelssohn, Michael Nyman, Ludovico Einaudi,  George Winston, Yiruma.  Winner of International awards including: 'Grace' on Grammy winning album, and ARIA Finalist, IMA Winner.

“I believe music is a gift from another world, from ancestors of the past communicating to inspire and give us hope.  Music is a universal language that connects us without prejudice, it speaks to us all equally, yet is received with great variation.  My wish is to open a few more hearts to the power of music.  Now more than ever we need the connection to our past in order to find the pathway to our future.” Fiona Joy Hawkins

Prelude In E Minor (Chopin, #4)

Fiona Joy Hawkins

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