Various Artists - Venere Bella - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Edition ZKM is dedicated to productions from the ZKM-Institute for Music and Acoustics. The institute is part of the Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany, (ZKM) which also includes the Museum for Contemporary Art, the Media Museum, a Media Library and the Institute for Visual Media. Guest artists from all over the world are invited to work in the music studios to realize specific projects. The projects, ranging from digital synthesis and algorithmic composition to the integration of live electronics, from radio art to sound installation, encompass a broad spectrum of that locus where digital technology stimulates musical fantasy. This radio-play (in German) features Bernhard Wicki as protagonist searching the European capitals of Berlin, Paris, London, Vienna and Lisbon for Inchthe stoneInch. His obsession with the stone is driven by his deceptive hope that he could predict the journey of the stone. - The author and composer Martin Daske realized his work in co-production with German radio-stations in ZKM's music studios. Bernhard Wicki narrator / Erwin Schastok, Ortwin Speer, Brita Sommer, Elisabetta Niccolini, Roberto Cornea da Costa, Anna Carewe, Gerhard König, Marc Altmann speakers.

The Miami native's My Soul, My Life sees this incredible vocal talent and skilled producer cooking up some confessional R&B with a modern groove. Featuring guest appearances from Trick Daddy, Trina & Xscape's La Tosha Scott.

This new features works for solo piano by female composers from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries, performed by Anna Shelest. Hailed by The New York Times as a pianist of Incha fiery sensibility and warm touch,Inch Anna Shelest is an international award-winning pianist who has thrilled audiences throughout the world. An Incheffective collaboratorInch (The New York Times), Anna made her orchestral debut at the age of twelve with the Kharkiv Symphony Orchestra, playing Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 1. Since then she has been a soloist with some of the world's finest orchestras, including the Montreal Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, and Estonian National Symphony, among others. Born in Ukraine, she received her early music education at Kharkiv Special Music School. Since graduating from The Juilliard School with a Masters Degree in the class of Jerome Lowenthal, Anna has made her home in New York City with her husband and two sons.