Blessed Assurance: Solo Piano Hymns(2008)
*NEW RELEASE*
14 classic hymns arranged in Jennifer's unique style including "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God", "Fairest Lord Jesus", and "Amazing Grace"
Thoughts and Dreams(2007)
Beautiful, original solo piano music meant to inspire imagination and creativity. Relaxing but definitely not just "background" music.
Christmas Magic(2006)
Unique takes on traditional Christmas carols. Lyrical and dreamy, this album is the star of the Christmas tree, and the snow of a lovely white Christmas Eve.
Best Of The Swan Lake: Moving Image & Music Award(2007)
A collection of music tracks selected by video artists for their SL:MIMA 2007 projects. Includes two tracks from my "Beautiful Solitude" CD as well as 17 other great pieces from artists Michael Dulin, Jennifer Thomas, Joe Bongiorno and more. Currently ships from Germany and costs 12 EUR+Shipping.
Music has always had a big impact on me. If given the choice between watching a new movie and listening to a new song I'd choose the song every time. I can remember, as a kid growing up in Southern California, roller-skating in my driveway with the radio blaring (I'm sure the neighbors loved me for that!), or dancing around the house to my mom's Tony Elman tapes. I just couldn't get enough music.
When I was about ten I begged my parents for piano lessons. They took me to the local piano store where we picked out a beautiful Charles R. Walter upright and I proceeded to take nine months of lessons and promptly quit! Even to this day it amazes me the patience that my parents had with me. They didn't get upset. They didn't even sell the lovely piano. I think they always knew that one day I'd come back to it.
At the age of 16 I became interested in my piano again when I learned that I could play by ear. Now, I'm no prodigy.. not by a long shot, but I taught myself a few of Enya's piano pieces and then was able to tackle the Moonlight Sonata. I began to look at the piano in a whole new way.
When I was 17 I decided I wanted to learn how to play the guitar. So my Aunt graciously allowed me the use of her guitar and I sat down with a chord book and taught myself. I loved it! Around the same time a friend of mine was leading worship for a church event and since she already played guitar she taught me some music theory for piano so that I could accompany her during the service. This opened up yet another avenue for exploration on the keys and I was loving it.
I met my husband, Peter, a year later. He was also a guitar player and even composed a beautiful song for me. However, I set music aside for a while to have my babies and learn how to take care of my new family. After our youngest was born, Peter took me to the music store (I had sold my beautiful piano in favor of a car when I was 18) and bought me a new piano. I protested. It was too much money. I was never going to play it etc. He just knew I needed it and bought it anyway.
One day I was sitting at the piano with my, then, two year old daughter Naomi. Naomi was patting at the keys and stumbled across a succession of notes that I really liked. I wrote a song around those notes right then and there. It just happened. Everything that I had been taught and experienced over the years was poured out into that song and it was an amazing experience. I've been composing and arranging songs almost non-stop since that day and enjoying every minute of it!
"The Divine Emptiness is pervasively omnipresent in all cosmic phenomena since the beginningless states of timeless existential evolution. Meditation essentially is to be in oneness with the Infinite Sacred Silent Divinity, which subtly is the source of all existences and anti-existences in the unfathomable multi-dimensional Universe."
Hi Jennifer! Thanks for the friendship, for KIND music and for really good playing. Hope you are well. Best wishes from Russia. Sincerely yours, Evgenie.
Just stopped by your beautiful site to say Hello and wish you a good week ahead! Melodies of your wonderful music shine great light of joy to the Universe of beauty and love!
"In the process of seeing and understanding, one acts at the very moment of this direct perception, in which, the immediate action is the act of Sacred Emptiness in the present, here and now, and the immediate direct result is the Perfect Enlightenment!"
Thank you very much for accept my friendship and to share your great talent in a wonderful music, hope you visit Argentina some day, you have a new friend here, yours: Enrique.