SIMPLICITY ITSELF (from Two Pieces for Cello and Piano) 

The majority of this work was composed without the aid of any instrument, sitting amid the grounds of the Dame Eadith Walker Estate, Concord while my late and beloved mother was receiving dialysis treatment. I knew at the time she had not all that long left to live.

If I am permitted to have a favourite work of my own, this would be one of but a select few pieces I have composed across the forty plus years of my creative life.

The cellist in this performance is Minah Choe, with Jeanell Carrigan at the piano.

Minah Choe was born in Seoul, Korea and began her studies at the age of 8. She graduated with Bachelor of Music with First Class of Honors from the Sydney Conservatorium where she was admitted whilst at high school and received scholarships throughout her studies. She was a full scholarship holder at the Australian National Academy of Music in 2002. In 2004 Minah received master's degree from the Indiana University Jacob’s School of Music under the guidance of Prof. Janos Starker and continued with doctoral degree as his teaching assistant at IU. Currently Minah is pursuing her Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the Sydney Conservatorium while working as a freelance cellist in major orchestras and performing widely in various chamber music concerts and recitals. ​Minah has appeared as a soloist with several orchestras including Sydney Symphony, Christchurch Symphony, Nizhny-Novgrod Philharmonic, Indiana Univeristy Philharmonic, Bloomington Camerata, Sydney Conservatorium Chamber, and Ku-ring-gai Philharmonic, the Beecroft orchestras, and Melbourne String Ensemble. Minah has won numerous awards including “Most Promising Performer” in 4th Adam International Cello Competition, Australian Postgraduate Award, inaugural Janos Starker Scholarship, Dorothy Fraser Scholarship and Australian University of Women Federation Commemorative Fellowship. ﻿Minah is passionate about teaching cello. She was a tutor at AYO Young Symphonists in 2010 and tutor at the Riverina Summer School for Strings in 2013. This year, Minah teaches at the Sydney Conservatorium and the Conservatorium High School and has commenced working as a Music Co-ordinator of the ​Australian Korean Classical Association.﻿Minah plays a cello by Joseph Hel (1869).

Dr Jeanell Carrigan is presently an Associate Professor in Collaborative Piano at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney. She has performed as a soloist, chamber musician and accompanist in Germany, Italy, Austria, Switzerland and throughout Australia, and has recorded for the Bavarian Radio Corporation, the ABC and for regional stations in Australia on many occasions. She holds a Doctor of Creative Arts in the area of Australian post-1970 solo piano repertoire and in May, 2016 released her seventeenth solo compact disc of Australian piano music. She is passionate about promoting Australian Music particularly the piano music of Australian women composers. In a review of the CD A Little Variation, composer Houston Dunleavy said “This recording is one to add to the list of treasures of Australian music that seem to be growing by the year. Surely Jeanell Carrigan belongs in this category as well. Australian music has a great champion in Carrigan’s fine playing and scholarship. She deserves far wide recognition for the quality of her work.” (Music Trust 1/4/15)

Recorded in August/ September 2017 in Verbrugghen Hall at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.

The piano was the Fazioli concert grand tuned and maintained by David Kinney.

Recording engineer: David Kim Boyle.

Simplicity Itself (cello and piano)

Dutch pianist/composer
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Scores and parts for many of my works are available from my publisher Creative Spirit Music Publications. Go to  https://www.creativespiritonline.com and select "Robert John Brooks." There, you can also follow the score while listening to a recording.

My music is fully notated and is intended for live performance by live musicians.

After completing my doctorate in composition in 1979 from UNT, I took 30 years off from composing to join the computer software revolution as a software engineer.  In 2010 I began composing again and have not stopped. So, I find myself beginning (restarting?) a composition career rather late in life...but that's OK.  Most of the works posted here were written since 2010. 

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I grew up playing the drums – but also spent time with the piano. At 16, I toured Europe as a drummer with a high school choir and small jazz combo. In 2012, I built a digital studio and started composing in earnest. Recently, I have been working in the cinematic sphere, inspired by the works of composers like Thomas Newman, Mark Isham, Andrew Lockington and Cliff Martinez. My overriding goal is to keep developing as a musician – and to connect with other lovers of music like you.

"Vertonungen der Moderne" nennen wir den Versuch, die hinterlassensfähigen Gebilde ausgewählter Dichter des 20. Jahrhunderts nicht nur zu Gefühl und Gedanken, sondern auch zu Gehör zu bringen.
Einer von ihnen ist Paul Celan, dessen bildmächtig hochgespannte Surrealität das außermusikalische Programm für die Vertonungen Récards bildet, der sie in die Raum-Zeit milder Atonalität taucht, während das sprechende lyrische Ich für die Verteilung von Schatten und Licht sorgt. 
Verse in ziellosem Spiel mit Chiffren, beschriebenen Booten gleich aufs Wasser gesetzt.  Mögen sie Herz-Land erreichen.

🎶✍️Music brings hope in darkness, poetry sheds light in verses.

Equipement used:
Vsthosts
VST free & demos
Dell Optiplex core i7  3.4 GHz 8Go ram
Roland ep7e (1992)- Midy5 Cavagnolo (1983)
played live (whithout pre-recording, arranging, editing)

I'm a composer with a particular interest in writing for piano, orchestra and smaller ensemble groups.
I'm based near Birmingham, UK.  Please feel free to contact me.  



Electronic, classical, ambient, chill out, jazz, funk, dub, downtempo, meditative 432Hz music with world infusion (and a dash of metal.)


Sound and vision on YouTube:
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Reposts: 
Ambient
Meditative
Chill out
Downtempo
Classical
Jazz
Funk
Dub
Reggae
EDM
Synthwave

Take a break from all the darkness in this world and bask in the light.

I am a flute teacher, concertist flutist, composer and software engineer.
I have taken back the study of piano since May 2018. I am a member of the Sacem in Paris and of the Swiss association Archebole located in Lausanne.
My flute teachers were :
Jacques Lévêque
Maurice Beugnon
Alain Marion
Michel Debost
Pierre Lambert
Robert Hériché and
Shigenori Kudo 
My composition's teacher was :
Lucian Metianu
I'm on Facebook since 2017 : https://www.facebook.com/franck.douvin
You can follow me on my website : https://www.franckdouvin.com and on the composers's  plateform : https://www.soundcloud.com/franckdouvin
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Thanks, Franck

In my music, I try to inspire me different forms that are in the nature, where microcosm and macrocosm intertwine closely.
It is really pleasant to be able to share our musics through our passions and ideas...
I currently have 67 Opus and all scores are available. 
Thank you for listening, comments and reposts !

Je suis professeur de flûte traversière, flûtiste concertiste, compositeur et ingénieur software.
J'ai repris l'étude du piano depuis Mai 2018. Je suis Membre de la Sacem à Paris et de l'association Suisse Archébole dont le siège est à Lausanne.
Mes professeurs de flûte traversière furent :
Jacques Lévêque
Maurice Beugnon
Alain Marion
Michel Debost
Pierre Lambert
Robert Hériché et
Shigenori Kudo 
Mon maître de composition était :
Lucian Metianu
Je suis sur Facebook depuis 2017 : https://www.facebook.com/franck.douvin
Vous pouvez me suivre sur mon site internet : https://www.franckdouvin.com
ainsi que sur la plateforme compositeurs : https://www.soundcloud.com/franckdouvin
Dans ma musique, j’essaie de m’inspirer des différentes formes qui se trouvent dans la nature, là où microcosme et macrocosme se mêlent étroitement.
C’est vraiment agréable de pouvoir partager nos musiques, nos passions et idées...
J’ai actuellement  à mon actif 67 Opus et toutes mes partitions sont disponibles.
Merci pour votre écoute, commentaires et reposts !

Si vous souhaitez soutenir mes compositions et enregistrements postés sur ma chaîne YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq-H2y_Kg_7ftLiY4n3qxSw ou tout simplement soutenir mon activité de musicien, vous pouvez vous me faire un don via Paypal  :
https://www.PayPal.me/franckdouvin
Merci, Franck

Simplicity Itself (cello and piano)

Phillip Wilcher