A Child is Born - Thad Jones

An old Italian song cover.
Used to play it in a down town restaurant.

all my favourite instruments.






Estate - 夏（ piano & cello）

The effort in "finishing" a composition can be endless. One can almost never know if he has chosen the best ending for the perfect beginning. This piece started with a few pleasant bars of melodies back in 2011. It has gone through 5 different versions. I call it the final version (for now) because 5 years is a long time. Thanks to Rune Bo Jakobsen—this was his favorite piece, and I hope I did my best to keep the original flow.

Rain Season

A Night in Merzouga

Tango Loco

It was a foggy and chilly morning in Salin de Giraud, the salt farm in south France. We were looking for flamingos which feed on the red algae that grows in the salt ponds. We could hear their singing so we followed the sounds, but it was only after the fog thinned out when we finally saw them in great numbers.

Salin De Giraud

A jazz piece based on Julie Elven's original composition "Keeper of Flames" .
original music link: https://soundcloud.com/elvenlied/julie-elven-keeper-of-flames?in=elvenlied/sets/original-music

Keeper of Flames by Julie Elven (Monica Xiao jazz cover)

This is an old composition with a new layer added - Cello is my second favorite sound.
I know that I used to compose exclusively for piano. but while listening to them, there're some moments when I wish I could have done a bit more. 

The first dance (Piano + Cello)

Everyone feels sad about that Lucia girl, whose beauty just makes that feeling stronger.

Lucia

A jazz composition starting with Vivaldi's Spring, ending in Brubeck's Take Five style.

Vivaldi Takes Five

From the album "Southern Wind, Northern Sand", this is a piece very different from the rest. It presents a picture of the colder places, where the nature is stunning, out of the world.

https://youtu.be/_vWzi-i1Y10

Southern Wind, Northern Sand

Aurora Fantasy

Like a Breeze

A jazz interpretation of my favorite Grieg piece.

Arietta (Jazz Cover of Edvard Grieg)

Playground #2

Playing with a quite simple melody, this piece wil bring you back to a good time of classical style.

Poetry (Monica Xiao, Piano Droplets)

A cover .  Also a chance for me to practise Bossa Nova. It is a 3 hands composition- suggesting at least 2 people playing :) 

Fly Me to the Moon (Bossa Nova)

All the Living Things

Her Way Back to Water

Blue Moon (on susb9)

Water lily

Tango (Carmen)

Life is nothing without discovering something beyond expectation and imagination. So do we dream, and create. This is my creation, my way of life.

Monica Xiao

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