Suzanne Ciani, pianist, composer and 5-time Grammy nominee will perform original compositions this evening in a rare local appearance.
Ciani?s music communicates the special intimacy, passion, and sensitivity that have become her trademark and has prompted fans to buy over a million of her albums. She has toured throughout the United States, Italy, Spain, and Asia.
After many years as a major-label artist (RCA, Atlantic, Private Music/WindhamHill/BMG), Ciani relocated to Northern California to concentrate on her artistic career and established her own record label, Seventh Wave, in 1994 in order to control her own creative work.
Her newest release, Silver Ship, won this year?s Indie Award for Best New Age Album.
"....one of the world's leading new age composers and performers!"
Jim Brenholts -Allmusic.com
"The music is rich with emotion and thought, surrender and control."
-New Age Voice
"A female Chopin!"
-Jaroslaw Michalonek, Chopin Society, Warsaw, Poland
Suzanne Ciani is a composer, recording artist, and pioneer in the field of electronic music. She is best loved for her fifteen albums of original music that feature her performances in a broad array of expressions: pure electronic, solo piano, piano with orchestra, and piano with jazz ensemble. No matter the medium, Ciani?s music communicates the special intimacy, passion, and sensitivity that have become her trademark and prompted fans to buy over a million of her albums.
Her music, renowned for its romantic, healing, and aesthetic qualities, has found a worldwide audience, and her performances include numerous benefits for humanitarian causes. She has toured throughout the United States, Italy, Spain, and Asia.
Her many recognitions include five Grammy nominations for Best New Age Album, two Indie nominations and one Indie Award for Best New Age Album, numerous Clios, a Golden Globe, and Keyboard Magazine?s ?New Age Keyboardist of the Year.?
In the eighties and early nineties, Ciani?s New York-based commercial production company, Ciani-Musica, Inc., was the leader in the field of sound design and TV spot scoring, creating award-winning music for a host of high profile Fortune 500 clients, including Coca-Cola, Merrill Lynch, AT&T, and General Electric. Additionally, Ciani has scored the Lily Tomlin feature The Incredible Shrinking Woman; the award-winning feature documentary, Mother Teresa; the feature documentary, Mother Teresa: The Legacy; as well as scoring for the TV daytime serial One Life to Live.
In the early nineties Ciani relocated to northern California to concentrate on her artistic career. In 1995, she established her own record label, Seventh Wave. After many years as an artist on major labels (Atlantic Finnadar, RCA RedSeal, Private Music/Windham Hill/BMG), Ciani felt the need to own and control her own creative work. Seventh Wave has remained an exemplar of the artist friendly independent record label since then.
In addition to her fifteen solo albums, Ciani has published three books of original piano music through the Hal Leonard Corporation: Suzanne Ciani: New Age Piano, Suzanne Ciani: Dream Songs, and Suzanne Ciani: Turning. Her signature composition, ?The Velocity of Love,? appears in numerous anthologies of romantic music.
Ciani is a graduate of Wellesley College and holds a Masters in Music Composition from U.C. Berkeley.
