My special thanks to all of the talented musicians who allowed me to work with them over the past 12 months. 21 tracks involving 21 different artists, truly spanning the globe as we all share our gift of music with each other and the world :-)

2016 Collaborations (Complete)

Norwegian pianist Sten Erland Hermunstad created a beautiful solo track entitled "Hope" and I am thrilled to have had the opportunity to add a few orchestral colors to his wonderful work. We hope you enjoy it. To hear more of Sten's music, visit his SoundCloud page here: https://soundcloud.com/sten-erland-hermundstad


Hope (Sten Erland Hermunstad - Rework)

I am delighted to present my recent orchestral additions  to Gian Marco La Serra's amazing track " A Day With You". We hope you enjoy it. To hear more of Gian Marco's wonderful work, go to: https://soundcloud.com/gian-marco-la-serra


A Day With You - Featuring Gian Marco La Serra

Matthias and I posted individual versions of Fivos' track about the same time. Matthias reached out to me wondering what it might sound like to combine all of the versions and this track is the result. I am thrilled with how it turned out and hope you enjoy it as well. Thanks to both Fivos and Matthias for being so open to sharing their amazing work with other artists - I feel truly blessed to be a part of this track :-)

Fivos Valachis - Upside Down, Performed by Fivos Valachis / Matthias Andrä, Arranged by Jeff Torres

I am happy to take part, again, in one of Mrinal's open collaboration projects. When I heard Roger's version of this track, with his great bass licks, I decided to use his version as the base for this re-mix. To get more info on the collaboration, click here: https://soundcloud.com/mrinal-desai/firewinds-iii-the-fall-of-darkness-tcm-underground-official-ambient-mix

To hear more of Roger's work, click here: https://soundcloud.com/roger-b-train

Fire Winds III - The Fall of Darkness (Jeff Torres, Roger / B-Train, TCM Open Collaboration)

When I first heard the sound of the Una Corda instrument I was taken in by it's beauty and the wonderful, light atmosphere it creates. I am so pleased to be able to have a chance to work with Milana's wonderful Una Corda performance as the basis of my contribution to this project. I hope you enjoy it :-) 

To hear the original track and find out more about the collaboration project, click here : https://soundcloud.com/milanazilnik/una-corda-fantasia-new-album-and-open-collaboration


Let Me Tell You A Story - Milana Open Collab (Jeff Torres Arrangement)

I want to thank Simon for allowing me to work with this solo piano track, which he composed for his musical Inspiration - his  wife Carolynne :-)

I am sure we all have people in our lives that inspire us, understand the passion we share for our music, and who allow us the freedom to create and share. I dedicate my orchestrated version of Simon's wonderful track to all those that inspire us. I hope you enjoy! 

Inspiration - Featuring Simon Reich

Milana's wonderfully played improvisation "For Bach" immediately struck me as a piece filled with potential power and energy. I have worked in a short melodic excerpt from Bach's famous Fugue in D minor and added full orchestral support to her original solo piano track and hope you enjoy it. To hear more of Milana's exceptional work, go to: https://soundcloud.com/milanazilnik

For Bach - Featuring Milana Zilnik

Time for a quick change of pace :-)

For this short piece, I layered the main themes from Beethoven's Fur Elise and his 5th and 9th symphonies on top of Mrinal's open collaboration track. Something a bit different from my usual fare - I hope you enjoy it. 

You can find the original collaboration track as well as the rest of the TCM mixes here: https://soundcloud.com/mrinal-desai

The High Rise (of Beethoven)  - TCM Smigen V Open Collaboration Featuring Jeff Torres (JTCMPOSR)

Upon first hearing of this touching track, which was  composed in remembrance of the March 22nd 2016 attack on the citizens of Brussels, I was moved by its poignant beauty. My thanks to Liz for allowing me enhance her already beautiful solo piano track with my orchestral additions. We hope you enjoy the end result. 

To hear more music from Liz, click here: https://soundcloud.com/liz-dicker

Le 22 Mars 2016 - Featuring Liz Dicker

This was one of the first songs I heard from this talented singer-songwriter and I have always wanted to add just some light solo strings to it. I am thrilled to have had the chance to finally do this. Thank you, Rose, for allowing me to work with your track and to everyone else for taking the time to listen to it. To hear her complete SC catalogue, click here:  https://soundcloud.com/bluecherrykiss

You Know I Still Do -  RosesAreBlue♥ with Jeff Torres (JTCmposr)

This end-of-the-day improvisation by Andrew is a wonderful reminder of how we can sometimes find happiness in the simplest of things. I am grateful to Andrew for allowing me to work with this track, so filled with both contentment and joy. 

To hear more of his music visit: https://soundcloud.com/keyquest-music and his web site https://pianodao.com/


I Got A Nice New Chair Today (J J T Arrangement)

When I heard this open collaboration track from Paolo, I wished I could sing, but since I cannot do this well enough to do justice to his wonderful musical arrangement, I decided to add a female voice from one of my vst libraries and just a touch more strings to his already great track. 

Hopefully this might inspire some others to add real voices, whether with their own lyrics and melodies, or simply add words to the melody of my mock up. In any case, I hope you enjoy the music. To get the original open collab track or hear more of Paolo's music, go here: https://soundcloud.com/mayadog

Also, if you would like to add your vocals over my updated track  (with the added strings), just let me know and I can send you a track without the vocal line. 

Ocean Life - Maya Dog Open Collab - (Vocals STILL needed)

Robert Holm was one of the first pianist / composers I heard when I joined Soundcloud and I am most happy to have a chance to work with one of his many wonderful tracks. I always enjoy his delicate, lyrical melodies and the way he lets a piece breathe. To hear more of his music please go here: https://soundcloud.com/r0o0b

We hope you enjoy this track. Thanks for listening!

She Wants Tea When She Gets Home - Featuring Robert Holm

For this collaboration, I was fortunate to work with this wonderful piano track, composed and performed by Terry Robinson. The orchestral additions for this track are very much in the style of some of the piano concertos of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. We hope you enjoy the track!

For more of Terry's music, please go to: https://soundcloud.com/purplerhapsody 

8 AM - The View From Cloud  9 - Featuring Purple Rhapsody

"Oases of Joy" is a free flowing musical expression, celebrating all of those moments in life, large and small, that bring us Joy. I have added some orchestral coloring to Gary's original piano track, creating a number of small "scenes". We hope you enjoy our work together and that your life is filled with joy each and every day! 

To hear more of Gary's music, go to: https://soundcloud.com/gary-courtland-miles

Oases Of Joy - Collaboration with Gary Miles (Anomon)

When Mark J Bennett posted his a Capella, vocal rendition of this classic song as an open collaboration, I was immediately drawn to his wonderful and heartfelt performance. I then stumbled upon the version done by Matthew Wilson, in which he created a flawless piano accompaniment for Mark's vocal. To their magnificent work, I added some orchestral touches and present the outcome of this three way collaboration here. We all hope you enjoy our collective work. 

To hear more of mark's music, go here: https://soundcloud.com/markjbennett

and to hear more of Matthew's work, check out his page here: https://soundcloud.com/matham-wilsoned

The Parting Glass

I have always enjoyed Philip's wonderful piano solo tracks and was most pleased when I discovered this recent track had no other instruments or ambient sounds added so that I could have "blank canvas" from which to work. I hope you enjoy his sensitive, original  performance with a few of my orchestral additions. Thanks for listening!

For more of Philip's music go here:  https://soundcloud.com/classicalglass-1

Opus 37 - Collaboration with ClassicalGlass

I am excited to participate in this open collaboration of Sam's, featuring the vocals of Hank Beukema. I hope you enjoy it! 

Music by Jeff Torres and Sam Prock. Spoken word by Sam Prock (soundcloud.com/samprock). Narrated by Hank Beukema (soundcloud.com/hankbeukema)

Gadget project for your creativity on the above link and all audio here:
soundcloud.com/samprock/sets/sam-prock-time-speck-open-collab-invite-stems

"Epic Speck" (Time Speck - Sam Prock Open Collaboration)

Here is Egor's original solo piano track, "Dawn Viola",  from his 2013 album "Absolution" with some of my orchestral additions. I hope you enjoy Egor's wonderful sense of melody and sensitive phrasing. To hear more of his music go here: https://soundcloud.com/grushin

We both hope you enjoy this compostion :-)

Dawn Viola - Collaboration With Egor Grushin

I am thrilled to present my first Christmas collaboration, featuring the exceptional piano artistry of Andrej Zatkalik. For this track, I took his solo piano work and added some orchestral support and melodic fragments of "Joy to the World", "Angels We Have Heard On High" and the "Hallelujah Chorus" to bring out the already joyful nature of his track. We both hope you enjoy this work, our second collaboration together :-)

To hear more of Andrej's music, here is his page: https://soundcloud.com/andrej-zatkalik-1

Festive Mood - Collaboration With Andrej Zatkalik

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