Jeff and Lisa Linsky performing "Labyrinth" together on guitar and piano. BRAVO! They have captivated listeners all over the world with this heart-melting melody.

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Lisa has been expressing her deepest emotions on the piano since she was four years old. Both her grandmother and great-grandmother were concert pianists, and Lisa inherited their passion for the instrument. For Lisa, however, the piano is more than a performance instrument. The piano gives voice to her creative energy, and the music Lisa has played throughout her life is mostly of her own composition. For many years, music remained a passionate avocation for Lisa, as she spent her childhood as a film and television actress and later went on to raise six children. It wasn't until she married guitarist Jeff Linsky, an accomplished concert and recording artist, that Lisa began to realize her own dream of a career in music. Jeff produced Lisa's first album of original, classically inspired piano music. That recording, "Sanctuary", received rave reviews and was honored with a 2009 Parents' Choice Award for it's engaging and calming effect on children. Lisa is now performing her heartfelt music in concert, while she continues to compose and record new music.

Jeff Linsky is widely recognized for his improvisational freedom and passionate mastery of the guitar. For nearly four decades, Jeff has performed in many of the world's premier concert halls and has been featured on numerous recordings in several genres. With a background in both classical music and jazz, Jeff's endless repertoire includes various styles of music from around the world. Guitar Player Magazine writes: "Linsky's talent is the stuff guitarists' dreams are made of."

Recent Times article, "Jeff and Lisa Linsky have not always played together, but they have always played music. The duo met and married only a few years ago ---- brought together not by their mutual love of music at first, but their mutual appreciation of volleyball!
They discovered later they are both lifetime musicians ---- he a guitarist and she a pianist and composer. This recording of Lisa's composition "Labyrinth" includes a constantly shifting mix of her piano music and Jeff's classical guitar.
Though Lisa's piano compositions were not written as children's music, she nonetheless received a 2009 Parents' Choice Award.
"Lisa's music has a calming affect on children."
There is a certain irony in Lisa's life as a musician. The first irony is that, though she began playing very young, her life took a turn into acting when she was young.
Among the parts she played was Walter Matthau's daughter Ginger in "The Fortune Cookie." She also appeared in "The Partridge Family" series and performed alongside Shirley Jones, David Cassidy, Shelley Winters, Robert DeNiro, Bruce Dern, and others.

Perhaps even more ironic is that she is going deaf. She suffers from otosclerosis, a calcification of the ear that is believed to have been the cause of Beethoven's deafness. The only reason she can hear today is that she has had implants, but the condition is progressive and, as of today, there is no permanent cure.
That she has to adapt her playing ---- sometimes even relying on the memory of what something is supposed to sound like or having to adjust the volume of her left and right hands to a remembered balance since her ears do not hear the same ---- has not stopped her from either composing or performing.
Sometimes she even has to block sounds.
"It hurts to hear some sounds," she said. "Sometimes I have to stick my fingers in my ears."
Not that she is complaining.
"I'm so glad I can hear," she said.
Lisa is the third in the family lineage to become a performing pianist. Her grandmother and great-grandmother were concert pianists, her grandmother the founder of the first all-woman orchestra and performer with such notables as Lionel Hampton.
Henry Mancini was a family friend and, after hearing Lisa play, suggested she attend the Julliard School of Music in New York, but Lisa's eye was still on a different stage career back then.
Jeff's musical journey has varied little from the time he was a child. He has pursued with almost equal devotion opportunities to play for an audience and sunshine. The Southern California native started on piano at 6 years old, "I have always had an affinity for music," he said.
When he was 10 years old, a friend allowed him to play his brother's guitar. "As soon as I touched the guitar, I had such a personal connection," he said.
He sees the guitar as versatile in both genre and style of playing. "I like the guitar's ability to be an instrument or a whole group," he said.
It can be played classically, can be a jazz instrument, can become part of an orchestra, anything, he said.
Jeff has traveled the world ---- or the warm parts of it anyway ---- all of his life to give concerts in any of the string genre on classical guitar or ukulele or other guitar permutations.
Last year he picked up a new, custom made ukulele. His tours have taken him around the world, now with Lisa as his "muse!"
It was the Linskys' mutual interest in volleyball that brought them together. They both played volleyball back at school and were participating in some sand games at the San Diego shore when they began seeing each other socially.
Lisa liked what she saw of Jeff's sports talent, but even more in his humility and willingness to help other players. Musically, they found an affinity born not only of their mutual love of music, but for the way they fit together when they perform in concerts.
"He's amazing at improvisation," Lisa said. He can anticipate where she is headed on the piano and, if Lisa's hearing lets her down for a moment, Jeff can pick up her line as if she had heard everything.
"We have a sixth sense with each other."