Scarlatti's music is the apex of Baroque musical composition. He infuses Spanish and Mediterranean elements into his compositions.

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CLASSICAL: Piano solo, CLASSICAL: Romantic Era



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Shirley Kirsten has been celebrated for her recordings of Scarlatti and the Romantic masters. A recent review of A Musical Journey by the Editor of the California Music Teacher Magazine, states that "Kirsten has delved deeply into the complex music of Scarlatti and has achieved a beautifully balanced and sonically colorful picture. Her playing is immaculate and the piano tone appropriate to the music of an age when dynamics were drastically different than today. The Scarlatti works are nicely balanced by Schubert and Chopin."

A graduate of the esteemed NYC High School of Performing Arts (FAME) and the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Kirsten continues to perform concerts and record the works of Scarlatti and other composers. Her goal is to put at least half of Scarlatt's output (about 250 sonatas on CD) and her growing reputation in this regard is becoming noticed in musical circles around the country. To date, her music has been broadcast on KVPR, 89.3, "Valley Public Radio," and will be included at the Classical Music Archives.com website in September, 2007 with world-wide radio beaming.
A second Scarlatti/Chopin disk is soon to be released.

Kirsten studied in New York City with Lillian Freundlich and on the West Coast with Ena Bronstein. One of her biggest influences has been Murray Perahia who was a classmate at the High School of Performing Arts, and for whom she once performed in a Master Class. She is not only a concert performer and recording artist, but she has recently written a book titled DREAM PIANO that is a hilarious and heart-warming set of piano finding adventures in the company of YORK, a colorful, 81 year old "piana tuna."