Category: Events

Friday, September 27th at 7:00PM

Biography

Louis Landon is a composer, Steinway artist, and Pianist for Peace. Formerly of New York and currently living in Sedona, Arizona, Louis has dedicated his life to music. His career has taken him around the world playing a variety of styles with some of the most recognized names in the entertainment industry. He toured nationally and internationally, playing classical music for Mikhail Baryshnikov; jazz fusion with The John Payne Band; Latin music with “Pucho and his Latin Soul Brothers”; pop music with Rupert “Pina Colada Song” Holmes; rock & roll with John Hall, opening for “Little Feat”.

Louis began playing the piano by ear at 4 years old and began lessons at 5. As a teenager, he played guitar and keyboard in bands and went on to study music at Stony Brook University, Boston Conservatory and Berklee College of Music.

For the past 30 years, through his production company, Landon Music Company, Louis has written and produced music for film, video, and commercials. He recorded his first original piano album, Love Songs & Jazz, in 1994 and has since released 32 Albums/CDs on the LCI Record label, his latest entitled Heartfelt Solo Piano was released on May 20, 2019. His music is licensed for television and motion pictures by Oovra Music.

Louis Landon mission:

To create a more compassionate world by writing, recording and performing music that inspires love, peace, joy and gratitude.

Reviews:

“While some pianists are virtuosos in their playing and others may not be as technically proficient, but have great emotional content in their music, Louis Landon brings it all together with impeccable style and grace. His work covers diverse compositional terrain, incorporating influences of classical, new age, jazz, pop, and more in a mellifluous spectrum of moods and musical colors.” Michaeldiamondmusic.com

“He has a gift for composition that is second to none.” Zone Music Reporter

“… indeed meditative and mellow, [he] sacrifices no musical rigor to achieve those ends. With backgrounds in jazz, Latin music, rock, pop, film composing, and classical piano, Louis brings his breadth and depth of experience to bear here. His playing and compositions are sensitive as they are complex and… a diverse range of influences is more than apparent.” Keyboard Magazine

Recognition:

Louis Landon’s music has had over 121 million streams on Pandora radio!

Louis Landon’s music has had over 18 million streams on Spotify!

Departure – Solo Piano was nominated for Album of the Year 2017 by Whisperings Radio.

Healing Hearts 2 – Solo Piano won 2016 “Contemporary and Modern” Album of the Year at solo piano.com and was nominated for Album of the Year at Enlightened Piano Radio, also in 2016.

Healing Hearts – Solo Piano was nominated for Album of the Year at Whisperings Radio 2015.

Solo Piano for Love, Peace & Mermaids was nominated for Album of the Year at Whisperings Radio 2010.

Solo Piano for Peace was nominated for the 2009 ZMR Music Awards in three categories: Album of the Year, Best Instrumental Album – piano, and Best Cover Art by Zone Music Reporter. Solo Piano for Peace was listed at #30 of the top 100 albums for airplay in 2009 by Zone Music Reporter.

Peace Revolution! was Louis Landon’s 7th CD and 2nd solo piano CD. It was #7 on the NAR top 100 charts and was played on over 50 stations worldwide.

unwind charted at #3 of the top 100 cds for the month of February, 2006 on Zone Music Reporter’s website, playing on over 121 stations internationally.

September 7th @ 7pm

A native of Ohio, Scott Kirby began his study of music at the age of
six, and continued formal piano instruction for seventeen years. He
worked under Robert Howat of Wittenberg University of Ohio, and
Sylvia Zaremba at the Ohio State University. After obtaining an
English degree from Ohio State University, Kirby moved to New
Orleans and began his professional music career, as a street
performer. In the following four years, he recorded the complete rags
of Scott Joplin, and made his debut at all of the major ragtime festivals
in the United States, as well as festivals in Belgium, France, Norway,
New Zealand, and Hungary.
Kirby has served as Musical Director of the “Scott Joplin Ragtime
Festival” in Sedalia, MO, and of the “Rocky Mountain Ragtime and
American Music Festival” in Boulder, CO, as well as director of the
“San Juan Islands Ragtime Institute.” His appearances include a
segment on CBS News Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood in
1998, and at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C. Kirby cofounded
a record company (Viridiana Productions, L.L.C.), has made
25 recordings, and has composed over 150 original works for piano
and other instruments. Admired by fellow pianists including George
Winston, and hailed by Time Magazine as an “ace pianist,” CBS
News’ Charles Osgood agreed that “…Critics call Scott Kirby one of
the best interpreters of ragtime music on the scene today.”
Kirby’s artistic passion grew to include to visual art, and in 2005, while
living in France, he completed 75 paintings and 28 piano
compositions, including “The Prairie Devotionals,” The paintings
(belonging to a set entitled “Visions of the Great Plains”) and the new
musical works set the groundwork for his new multi-media project
“Main Street Souvenirs.” Kirby now lives in Boulder, Colorado and
divides his time between composing, painting, performing and
teaching.

March 30th 7PM

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Jazz pianist and vocalist Kate Skinner maintains an active performing, composing, and teaching career in the western United States. A native of Ogden, Utah, Skinner pulls influences from the bluegrass and classical roots of her childhood into both her songwriting and performing as a jazz musician. In her teenage and college years, Kate delved into R&B, funk, and hip hop, genres that also continually find their way into her musical explorations helping to create her own unique voice. Part of this unique voice is an obsession with alternative keyboard instruments and a study of the great keyboardists of jazz, rock, and funk.

As a pianist, Dr. Skinner is in demand in a variety of performance styles and has performed with the Downbeat-award-winning jazz band from the University of Northern Colorado, Jazz Lab Band I among many other established large and small jazz ensembles. Her work as a vocalist has seen much success among a wide audience of listeners across genres. Kate’s compositions and playing have won multiple awards, including a Downbeat award for Outstanding Vocal Performance and a Jazz Education Network award for composition.

2014 saw the release of two new albums that Kate was highly involved in, one of which is a straight-ahead jazz quartet called Divergent featuring her writing and performing. The second is Born to Wander a bass-guitar-voice trio with Erik Applegate and Steve Kovalcheck. The group is founded in jazz and explores interpreting classic folk and rock tunes along with jazz standards. Kate believes that the pursuit of honest and creative projects is the lifeblood of any artist and she strives to continually push herself and widen her scope to new influences and excitements.

Skinner is currently a jazz lecturer at the University of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho, where she directs Jazz Band II and teaches multiple courses in jazz studies. She holds M.M. and D.A. degrees in Jazz Studies from the University of Northern Colorado.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 AT 7:00 PM

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From Idaho and Washington states, around the world and back, Steinway Piano Gallery is happy to host the piano duo featuring Jay and Sandy Mauchley in concert.

Jay and Sandy Mauchley, Steinway Artists, are professors emeriti at the University of Idaho.  They have collaborated together as a duo-piano team for over 35 years, and have played hundreds of recitals and concertos throughout the United States.  They have appeared on National Public Radio’s Performance Today, and have been presenters and featured as guest artists on national, district and state conventions, American Liszt Society Festivals and at the Smithsonian in Washington D.C.  In addition, as collaborative artists they have performed in Canada and Europe.  Each summer they perform and coach at the Red Lodge Music Festival and the Interlochen Center for the Arts.

Critics have noted their playing as.…”…piano at its best.  The skill with which they performed was as exciting to see as it was to hear….It seemed as if it were indeed one musician with four hands.”

Jay and Sandy are on the International Roster of Steinway Artists.

Their program consists of all French music; Debussy, Saint-Saens and more.  Jay and Sandy truly display brilliant and witty interplay between two pianos.  Join us for an evening of romance, expression, grace and fun.