Exotic and beautiful French salon music for piano reminiscent of Chopin, Satie, Faure and Michel Legrand for altering mood and states of mind. Cures insomnia too.

17 MP3 Songs
CLASSICAL: Contemporary, EASY LISTENING: Mood Music



Details:
Solo Piano Compositions by Dana Carlile
Performed by Pianist Rhonda Ringering

For the story of Dana's grandfather Ferdinand Sorenson and his sons Hubert, Richard, Mayo and Quinten (Pete) Sorenson click on then link to Preludes for Silence and Darkness to your left.

Pianist Rhonda Ringering has crafted a career
as a pianist, a writer and an instructor. She has
released two prior CDs, Oregon Impressions:
the Original Piano Music of Dave Deason and
Made in America, a collection of American
music. She is an active chamber music and solo
performer for venues as diverse as Multnomah
County Library, Central Oregon Symphony,
The Old Church, Linfield College, Broderick
Gallery Series, and the Ernest Bloch Music
Festival. She has performed live on KBPS 89.9
FM. She has appeared several times with Oregon
Chamber Players, and frequently performs
cabaret with tenor Ron Harman. She is a staff
accompanist and an adjunct professor of piano
at Linfield College, piano instructor for Young
Musician's and Artist's Camp, and she maintains
a private piano studio in Forest Grove, Oregon.

A BIT ABOUT DANA

Composer Dana Carlile is an amateur pianist who had several years of piano instruction as a child from his mother Dorothy. He took up the piano again on his own after hearing Istvan Nadas play the complete keyboard works of J. S. Bach at Reed College in 1979.

Audio Editing, Mastering
and Graphic Layout (including misspelling) by
Dana Carlile

The CD is dedicated to Dana's uncle
Quiten Sorenson

Many thanks to
The Multnomah County Library
Portland, Oregon