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Composer: Shirley Ly
String Quartet: Alerion Strings with Claudia Dehnke and Flora Yeung (Violinists), John Michael Hird (Violist) and Chris Terepin (Cellist)

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J'adore Mes Chats by Shirley Ly | String Quartet

Hobbit -  Back in the Shire

une source chaude, aujourd'hui abandonnée, de mon Auvergne natale

retour aux sources

I want your love

105 - Repudiation

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)

My new composition "Nocturne" captures the feeling of an evening soiree, with serious listeners, some off in the corner talking and drinking and others enjoying the casual conversations and relaxed scene.  The music is dreamy, with melodies that don't conform to the standard 8 bars and resolve in unexpected keys.  The tempo is ultra rubato, and with too much sentimentality for the purest.  I love to savor the keys, the timing and experiment with melody in ways that indulge my romantic emotions.  Thank you for listening to my music!

Nocturne

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

Mendelssohn Op.85.No4 (performer Ad van Nederpelt)

Aus Lieder ohne Worte van Mendelssohn.
I recommend listening with headphones.

Menselssohn Op.102.No4 (performer Ad van Nederpelt)

“In everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can’t go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That’s how we survive.” - Haruki Murakami
I invite you to listen to my piano improvisation "Nowhere to Return".

The sheet music of my compositions can be downloaded from here:
https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/publishers/victor-birkan-sheet-music/3028943?isPLP=1

Listen to videoversion on my YouTube channel:
https://youtu.be/XxuJzgL0yqI


Nowhere to Return - Improvised Piano Piece

NEW EP, BENEVOLENCE (2025) AND ALBUM, WINDS OF THE EAST (2025) IS OUT NOW!

Instagram: @shirleylymusic

Shirley Ly is a self-taught British female contemporary classical music composer from Greenwich in London, United Kingdom, with Chinese and Vietnamese heritage. She has composed over 50 pieces for solo piano / violin / cello, duets, trios, quartets and quintets. She has produced an EP: Benevolence (2025), and 5 albums: Winds of the East (2025), 9 Lives (2023), Paradise (2023), Blossom (2021), and Impetus (2018) and released multiple singles i.e. Olive Tree (2024), Emerald (2023), and London Strive (2023). Her music has been played around a million times across more than 100 countries around the world spanning six continents, including by BBC radio. Shirley plays the piano in all of her pieces.
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The pieces in her albums aim to capture her reflections on life experiences relating to nature (i.e., swallows' journeys to their nests, the seasons, swans), living in London, dance, relationships with family and other loved ones, travel (i.e. to Berlin, Amsterdam), and dreams. 

Winds of the East (2025) is inspired by Shirley’s Chinese and Vietnamese heritage, her grandfather who was a distinguished painter and poet in China and her recent travels in South East Asia particularly in areas of natural beauty. 

Paradise (2023) is inspired by her experiences of swimming, diving, sailing, and surfing in the ocean, and she hopes that her music can further emphasise its importance. 
 
9 Lives (2023) is inspired by the beauty, charm and mysteriousness of cats. She lives in London with her five cats, and gain a lot of inspiration from them. This album aims to raise money for animal charities in areas which need support the most.

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J'adore Mes Chats by Shirley Ly | String Quartet

Shirley Ly | Classical Music Composer & Pianist

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