www.jeffchipman.com

"If every note is replaced, does the soul of the song remain?"

https://www.pianoday.org




Image thanks to Zoltan Tasi via Unsplash

The Ship of Theseus

Bevrijdingsconcert 2025 - Muziekvereniging Kunst na Arbeid Nieuwpoort.
Opgenomen op 29-03-2025 in "Het Arsenaal" te Nieuwpoort. o.l.v. Peter de Kluijver

3. A time there was

Frida Boccara won the Eurovision Songfestival in 1969 with this song. It's a ballad with classical style. The Dutch pianist Louis van Dijk made an improvisation on this theme. There was no notation of it so I (16 years old) notated this piece note by note with the help of a taperecorder.
The work of a monk... By this presentation I used The new Ivory Grand selection which sounds marvellous! I recommend the Ivory sections to any serious piano player. Using the KAWAI VPC 1 with wooden, weight keys makes the total picture compleet as playing on a real Steinway!

Cent mille chansons (Performer Ad van Nederpelt)

Allegro in D for Clarinet Trio, no. 79

A road, straight ahead, beauty all around. 
You can smell and pick the flowers or… why not leave them there grow and bloom cause that’s the nature’s way isn’t it?
Does everything have to have an end? Or there is an everything to an end too?!

Whatever and however it is, the time is now, not later, as later doesn’t exist, or it at least not yet!
Did we learn something from our past, did we applied what we learned, or better, how many did we in the practicality put the beautiful and oh so wise theory we blessed the others ears so many times!

We all did  s**t in our lives I think and I believe someone can really change after they truly and ultimately accept that and move on like a bird leaves it’s crib to learn and to grow and than? 

What is next? What is next…


Bon chance!

Bon Chance

The time of the pandemic was marked by countless endless, solitary wanderings through nature. This is captured in this piece for piano and bassoon: as footsteps move steadily through deep snow, memories drift past the mind’s eye— silent, fleeting, and profound.

Pandemic Suite – 09. Lonely Walk

Where the Sky Whales Sleep

Echoes of an Airborne Kingdom

Excerpt from "Zanarkand" from the piano album of the Japanese video game "Final Fantasy." I love these epic, dramatic, highly complex, and beautifully arranged melodies and have been practicing it intensively for half a year

Zanarkand Q

this was supposed to be for a very cold environment, but i got carried away with the soft piano plugin

you can check out other stuff here: https://youtu.be/9rj5Z_mLjBE

aglid

my take on Yanni’s One Man’s Dream 🎹🎻
Piano, woodwinds, brass, and strings, all performed, arranged, and mixed by me in a full weekend!😅

Allegro in D for Clarinet Trio, no. 79

Michael McNamara