My name is Shoshana. I am a musician. At the age of 9, I won "Student of the Month" award at the Suniland Music Store. I auditioned for and was accepted to the talented music program at Southwood Junior High. I played violin, viola, and then double bass in the orchestra. Studied piano. Sang in the chorus. Studied theory. I started taking private lessons with Dr. Rosalina Sackstein at the University of Miami. After graduation, I auditioned for PAVAC (Performing Arts and Visual Arts Center) and was accepted!
The next year PAVAC transformed into New World School of the Arts. I auditioned and was accepted. I was in two bands. Emerald Steel (heavy metal) and then Wonderland (groovy). I participated in three concerto competions.
After gradudation, I was accepted at the University of Miami School of Music, where I resumed studies with Dr. Rosalina Sackstein. I entered the Miss University of Miami pageant, where I was a finalist twice.
After that, I got a high score on the LSAT and went to law school at the Univ. of Miami. I graduated with honors, while working full time at Island Records. Passed the Florida Bar. Moved to New York, and joined Motown, passed the New York Bar. Much debauchery ensued. Moved back to Miami and joined BMG U.S. Latin.
I moved to L.A. I moved to San Francisco. Then I did all this litigation for Bill Graham Presents. Became the attorney/manager for George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic. We started a record label together and put out 10 records.
I left to start a childrens video company "Kiddie Village." You can see our award winning titles "Fun With Dance, "Mom & Tot Workout" and "Let's Play Music" at www.kiddievillage.com
These days I am working at In Ticketing. Playing keyboards in a local band. Doing Bikram Yoga. And watching my beautiful daughter Rachel grow up.
Thanks a lot for accepting me! The pieces on Your player are very enjoyable! It seems You 're very talented.
Please check out my music whenever You have time. I 've uploaded a few pop(ular) songs and some instrumental stuff in various styles. I hope You 're going to like at least some of my tracks. All comments are welcome and appreciated...
Thanks for stopping by.... Everything is going well these days.... Amazing with the GAS going up.... and watching how it is destroying people one way or another.... Hope one day we will get to see each other again.... Till then take care of yourself and your family..... Love ya.
greetings from south florida ! just alittle note to let you know that you are one of a kind ! love , ed ps. i will be here !,looking forward to seeing & composing music with you again !
That's a result of my own laziness... CDBaby is centered in portland, so rather than ship out some CDs to them, I just drive out and deliver it personally. Saves a few bucks, but I haven't had the time... because...
tough project huh? We can compare! Right now I'm transcribing all the hymnography of the typical sunday morning service of the Greek Orthodox church from byzantine notation to western notation, as well as composing english settings based off of their Greek equivalent. It's a pain in the ass! Plus I got about 200 orders of my guitar method book, and it's STILL unfinished! So I'm trying to crunch all this stuff into completion by the end of May...
Thanks so much for the compliments... Michael Hedges on testosterone, that's funny, he'd probably say "what, am I not MANLY ENOUGH?!?!' but on high levels of anything it's difficult to concentrate, and I'll be first to admit that my playing is still pretty rough around the edges. It should smooth out in my next decade though.
And as far as shosho goes, I'm a jazz musician. We've got intuition :)
Your Clair De Lune is VERY rubato. It's an interesting interpretation because not so many piano players are so liberal with the time, but I can feel the time the whole performance, it is very elastic but the notes are honest to this time...
I play this piece on the guitar, with lots of rubato, but only because it is very hard to play AT tempo, so I had to find a convenient rubato pattern that could accommodate the technical limitations of the guitar... and my technique :)
