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"Christmas Fantasies" is a holiday CD containing twelve solo piano arrangements of popular Christmas melodies. Every track contains a different treatment of a well known Christmas tune, all of which encompass a wide range of moods, styles, and influences. We hope the listener will be engaged with this refreshing approach to an overly saturated market - holiday music... (Sample some selections on the music page)

As the title alludes, this is a collection of original piano pieces depicting calm scenes and quiet moods, with a few expanding aggressively into wider scopes. Elements of the dance, the standard song form, and free form improvisation can all be found, thus creating a unique melodic blend of introspective ballads and impassioned utternances. (Sample some selections on the music page)

This CD showcases a collection of 18th, 19th, and 20th century American "classics", derived from sacred, folk, and popular genres....(Sample some selections from the music page) Tentative release date: May, 2008