A simple lullaby created for piano.  

My debut album "Heart Strings" is now available on iTunes...https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/heart-strings/id989429326

The Mystic Lullaby

Live from Chaillol festival. 
Sound Engineer : Ivan Solano.

Johan-Sebastian Bach Passacaglia for organ BWV 582 (Trans. Emile Naoumoff)

Played by Stan, composed by J.K. Mertz (1806-1856)
For me, this song represents the journey of life; the intro as a metaphor for birth and the outro for a divine death. 
In between there is joy & sadness...


An Malvina (J.K. Mertz)

extract of Henry Purcell's Sonata's of Three Parts,  baroque ensemble Sept mesures de soie (violins : Gabriel Grosbard & Sandrine Dupé, gamba : Federico Yàcubsohn, Harpsichord and musical director : Marie-Pierre Brébant) - Paris 2008

Henry Purcell - ensemble Sept mesures de soie

Music for piano, strings, glockenspiel, woodwinds.


Vision

Wallflower

First Loves
Tim Fain, violin
Robert Koenig, piano

First Loves is a collection of quintessential violin masterpieces which first inspired me to be a violinist. Includes showpieces by Rachmaninoff, Sarasate, Wieniawski, and more, plus “Swan Remix,” my own arrangement of themes from Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake.
As a kid, I was surrounded by classical, pop, rock, jazz, film and contemporary concert music – finding a balance of old and new music is still very important to me. Many of the works on First Loves are the ones that drew me in as a child – Rachmaninoff, Sarasate, and Wieniawski, arrangements by Heifetz, and Kreisler – and remain profoundly relevant today. I’ve also included “Swan Remix,” my own arrangement of themes from Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, which I made after my work on-camera and on the soundtrack of the film Black Swan. Each track is dedicated to someone who inspired me or made it possible for me to be the person and the artist that I am today. My hope is that First Loves will inspire others, young and old, to fall in love with the violin as I did.

First Loves

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Swan Remix - P. I. Tchaikovsky/Tim Fain

Autumn leaves are dancing from the sky.....everywhere.....slowly falling to the ground...... a colourful and extraordinary beautiful carpet lying under my feet...this is autumn! <3

Blätterregen

Endlessly

Intimate

And here comes the 3rd piece from the "Petits Rêves Bizarres" album - the collaborative album with @stephan-beneking , a blend of neoclassical composition with free style improvisation.

Credit for the album artwork goes to Arty, it was his idea and implementation. We'd love to share some "behind the scene" photos about how this artwork was made:
http://www.milana.ws/images/petitsrevesbizarres_1.jpg
http://www.milana.ws/images/petitsrevesbizarres_2.jpg

The full album is available on iTunes, Amazon, Google Play, BandCamp and so on:

CreateSpace CD: http://www.createspace.com/2135430
Amazon CD: http://www.amazon.com/Petits-Reves-Bizarres-I-XII-Milana/dp/B00CAEM6V0
Amazon MP3: http://www.amazon.com/Petits-Reves-Bizarres-Stephan-Beneking/dp/B00C1WP5C8
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/album/petits-reves-bizarres-i-xii/id626880279
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/music/album/Milana_Petits_Reves_Bizarres_I_XII_feat_Stephan_Be?id=Bdeidvd3ih2hfp4wpks5txv4oga
BandCamp: http://milana.bandcamp.com/album/petits-reves-bizarres-i-xii

If you decide to support us and purchase the album, please leave some review on the mentioned sites :) It will be much appreciated!

Enjoy the third piece from this album!

Petit rêve bizarre III - Stephan Beneking and Milana

original music: @ascoltadi
piano: Carlos Márquez

image by Luis Argerich
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lrargerich/3100004767/

Reflections

Dirk Maassen: Fragile

With his adventuresome spirit and vast musical gifts, violinist Tim Fain has emerged as a mesmerizing new presence on the music scene.  The “charismatic young violinist with a matinee idol profile, strong musical instincts, and first rate chops” (Boston Globe) was most recently seen on screen and heard on the soundtrack of the new hit film Black Swan, and heard as the sound of Richard Gere’s violin in Fox Searchlight’s feature film Bee Season. Selected as one of Symphony and Strad magazines’ “Up-and-Coming Musicians,” Fain captured the Avery Fisher Career Grant  and a Young Concert Artists International Award.  As The Washington Post recently raved, “Fain has everything he needs for a first-rate career.”

He electrified audiences at debuts with the Baltimore Symphony with conductor Marin Alsop, at Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival and with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s.  He has also appeared with the Mexico City and Oxford (UK) Symphonies, Cincinnati Chamber Symphony, Brooklyn and Hague Philharmonics, and the Curtis Symphony Orchestra in a special performance at Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center.  In addition, he was the featured soloist with the Philip Glass Ensemble at Carnegie Hall in a concert version of Einstein on the Beach and continues to tour the US and Europe in a duo-recital program with Phillip Glass.

Fain appeared in recital at the Ravinia Festival, Amsterdam’s venerable Concertgebouw, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Kennedy Center Mexico’s Festival de Musica de Camara in San Miguel de Allende, Carnegie’s Weill Hall, California’s Carmel Mozart Society, University of Georgia, Boston’s Ives and Ringling International Festivals, San Diego Art Institute, University of California at Davis, Alice Tully Hall, the 92nd St Y, and elsewhere across the globe. His multi-media evening Portals premiered to sold-out audiences in New York, Los Angeles and at its midwestern premiere at Omaha’s KANEKO. The centerpiece of the evening is Partita for solo violin, a new work written especially for him by Philip Glass, and also features collaborations with Benjamin Millepied, Leonard Cohen, film maker Kate Hackett, and with radio personality Fred Child and pianist Nicholas Brittel appearing on screen.  

A dynamic and compelling performer in traditional works, he is also a fervent champion of 20th and 21st century composers, with a repertoire ranging widely from Beethoven and Tchaikovsky to Aaron Jay Kernis and John Corigliano; as the Los Angeles Times recently noted, his career “is based, in part, on new music and new ways of thinking about classical music.“  His provocative debut CD Arches, music for solo violin, reflects Fain’s inquisitive passion and intellect, combining old and new solo works by J.S. Bach, Fritz Kreisler, Kevin Puts, Mark O’Connor, Daniel Ott, and Randy Woolf. His new disc, River of Light (Naxos), brings the tradition of the virtuosic short piece into the present, with short works by living American composers.

He has collaborated with such luminaries as Pinchas Zukerman, Richard Goode, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Jonathan Biss, has appeared with the Mark Morris Dance Group, Seán Curran Company, and Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, and appeared onstage with the New York City Ballet, performing alongside the dancers in the acclaimed premiere of Benjamin Millepied’s “Double Aria." He has also worked with jazz pianists Billy Childs and Ethan Iverson (The Bad Plus), guitarist Rich Robinson (Black Crowes), and appeared at Jazz at Lincoln Center with singer-songwriter Rob Thomas (Matchbox 20). 

A sought-after chamber musician, Fain has performed at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, New York’s Bargemusic, Chamber Music Northwest, and the Spoleto (Italy), Bridgehampton, Santa Fe, Caramoor, Bard, Lucerne (Switzerland), “Bravo” Vail Valley, Moab, and Martha’s Vineyard Festivals. He has toured nationally with Musicians from Marlboro, and was first violinist of the Rossetti String Quartet. 

A native of Santa Monica, California, Tim Fain is a graduate of The Curtis Institute of Music, in Philadelphia, where he studied with Victor Danchenko, and The Juilliard School, where he worked with Robert Mann.  He performs on a violin made by Franceso Gobetti, Venice 1717, the “Moller,” on extended loan from Clement and Karen Arrison through the generous efforts of the Stradivari Society of Chicago.

Swan Remix - P. I. Tchaikovsky/Tim Fain

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