Author: Pam Asberry

Classically trained from the age of six, Cuban born pianist and composer Dulce Joya has studied, performed and taught music in Colombia, Austria, and Germany, where she currently resides. Her 2017 release, “Reality of Dreams,” was an fascinating musical journey through the boundaries between fantasy and reality. Her latest release, “Devotion,” further displays the artist’s […]

“Spettro,” a collection of fifteen piano pieces that musically describe various colors, is the twelfth release from the multi-talented and wonderfully creative pianist and composer Milana Zilnik. “Chromesthesia” is the technical term for the phenomenon of people seeing sounds in shapes and colors; in this project, Milana uses the piano to evoke specific characteristics of […]

“Love Themes for Solo Piano” is a collection of thirteen pieces exploring and affirming love in its many forms. Recorded at Joe Bongiorno’s Piano Haven Studio in Sedona, Arizona on a Shigeru Kawai, the sound is amazing. Several tracks on the album were improvised on the spot in the studio and recorded in single takes […]

Is this festive season as crazy busy for you as it is for me? My to-do list seems to grow faster than I can cross off completed tasks! But my winter break from teaching starts TODAY – the perfect time to share some relaxing holiday music with YOU! First, there’s a new video on my […]

“Jazzy Kid Songs 2” is composer and arranger John Paris’s twelfth album to date and the follow-up to his 2017 release “Jazzy Kid Songs.” Dedicated to “the kid in all of us” and with the smiling faces of Paris’s five grandchildren (and one grandpup!) beaming on the cover, one might conclude that this is an […]

“Sing me of Winter” is a brand new holiday single by the gifted composer and talented pianist Lisa Swerdlow. According to Swerdlow, this music was inspired by her friend Paul Landry who advised her NOT to do yet another cover of an existing Christmas song but instead to write one of her own. And I […]

Born in Owensboro, Kentucky, Holly Jones began studying violin at age three, piano at eight, and creating compositions on the piano by nine. Years of training, including many years of private study as well as private piano and composition lessons at Indiana University, followed. Holly’s solo piano debut album, “Traveler” was released in 2003. Her […]

Cathy Oakes’ latest release, “Healing Hands,” is dedicated to the team of medical professionals who cared for her during her journey through breast cancer. Arguably her most intimate and personal collection to date, Cathy created this music to minister to other women who will follow her down this difficult path. Wonderfully melodic, rich with expression, […]

It is Thanksgiving break in many parts of the country and I am celebrating the start of the 2019 holiday season with the release of a new video, Over the River and Through the Wood, from my holiday album Thankful Heart, Joyful Mind. Written as a Thanksgiving poem by New England author Mary Lydia Childs and set […]