Merry Christmas! Peace, Love, Health, Joy in 2024!

New Year Piano Concert Live: Mon 1 Jan 2024  @8 PM PST (new time)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YuwrQ8sWtU

As the calendar turns
a page anew
A canvas of dreams
washed in hues..

Gratitude arises
with the dawn
A symphony of hope
a melody drawn..

With prayers
as our guiding light
We step into the future
a wondrous sight.

Sorry I have many medical appointments and issues these days... not here much..

Here I took the basic chords of Last Christmas, made it into minor key and waltz style with rubato.. improvised freely, will change every time I play it.. added many trills and scalar motifs like Chopin. Though the chord progression is repeated, this one is actually the hardest of the three to make and record. The other two came easily for unknown reasons. I also started the ideas for Last Christmas and Silent Night (in the style of Chopin) last year. 'Christmas time is here' I made in a couple days this year.

On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/6DYUYstewdSxaKPkoEOQXo?si=AksLcBTKTrK8no5q4PzXWg

Part of my new Christmas time piano album. on YouTube too:

Last Christmas Piano Performance:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te3hgnqqi-A

Silent Night: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hGFgZuVsBg

Christmas Time is Here (jazz): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAB-IcRZArU

Christmas Piano Livestream: subscribe for more! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqBT2zt2gT8&t=1657s

Last Christmas

Last Christmas (in the style of Chopin)

Merry Christmas! Peace, Love, Health, Joy in 2024!

New Year Piano Concert Live: Mon 1 Jan 2024  @8 PM PST (new time)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YuwrQ8sWtU

As the calendar turns
a page anew
A canvas of dreams
washed in hues..

Gratitude arises
with the dawn
A symphony of hope
a melody drawn..

With prayers
as our guiding light
We step into the future
a wondrous sight.

Sorry I have many medical appointments and issues these days... not here much..

Liberal interpretation recorded improvisationally..in the style of Chopin, melancholy waltz in minor but also influenced by Beethoven and his love for c minor. Sonata form. Score free on my website/shop.

On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/6DYUYstewdSxaKPkoEOQXo?si=AksLcBTKTrK8no5q4PzXWg

Part of my new Christmas time piano album. on YouTube too:

Last Christmas Piano Performance:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te3hgnqqi-A

Silent Night: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hGFgZuVsBg

Christmas Time is Here (jazz): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAB-IcRZArU

Christmas Piano Livestream: subscribe for more! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqBT2zt2gT8&t=1657s

Silent Night (in the style of Chopin)

The Chinese New Year starts 10 Feb. We welcome the year of the dragon! The dragon is powerful and the year is said to be very high or low.
🤍The battle between forces of light and dark represents our internal struggles. The continual cycle of darkness turning into light is important as Hope springs from sadness. 
🖤 In Chinese culture it is called yin-yang; a cyclical balance between female and male energy produces harmony.

The Dragon Waltz is out now, available on all streaming platforms.  恭喜发财! https://iwd.lnk.to/TheDragonWaltz

Compilation of women composers for International Women's Day..
Harmonies of WoMen..

31 Jan newlsetter: https://shoutout.wix.com/so/83OrXcO6X?languageTag=en

The Dragon Waltz

25 July 2025 News
https://sharonelainechen.com/so/09PW9XRao?languageTag=en

Thanks for subbing to my YouTube for piano and violin performances/lives! https://www.youtube.com/c/SharonChenMusic

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Classically-trained, award-nominated composer. What Was I Made For? won Steve Sheppard’s Award for Best Single in April 2024, One World Music Radio, UK. Blissful and Beyond Album won third place Best Album (Sept ’24) Harvard College graduate with honors in Music and East Asian Languages and Civilizations.. I am a poet, dreamer; see my poems on Twitter. 

My songs tell stories of darkness evolving into light. I play piano lives on many medias - classical, jazz, neoclassical and somewhere in-between. My YouTube has over 640k views in classical, originals, jazz. Each of my feel-good orchestral works from Blissful and Beyond album has a story of gratitude.

New EP’s in progress in different genres. Disney/jazz (Once Upon a Time, Long,Long Ago);  Album, The Five Elements - wood, water, metal, earth, fire - elements intrinsic to ancient Chinese philosophy, poetry, landscape art.. works either sounds Chinese or western with Chinese philosophy behind it. Chopin EP with new and classic takes. 10 million+ Spotify streams.
https://www.sharonelainechen.com/ 

Watch for originals and covers on both instruments on YouTube and Spotify. Thanks for subbing to my YouTube and following me on Spotify. Find different works on my Bandcamp, One World Music Radio too.
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Dawn of the morning lightly caresses
The moon touch of our hearts reveals 
In the blackest of nights..
In the breathlessness of circumstances 
The embracing hearts slowly heals..

~SEC

New tracks tagged #SharonChen