Sona Talian was born as a member of a traditional Armenian musical dynasty. At the age of four, she witnessed a performance of a Tchaikowsky Piano Concerto and was able to play the main theme with both hands, a feat which drew attention from the public. She started her systematic musical education at the age of six years and at this tender age, composed her first piano piece.

In 1990 she came to Germany on a concert tour with her sister, at that time both decided to continue their education at the music academy in Detmold. Sona later completed her studies as a pianist at the Frankfurt Academy of Music and Performing Arts, graduating with distinction. Since then, Frankfurt has become a beloved hometown for her where she now lives and works as a composer and pianist.

She views her musical visions as a gift and brings them to life: “especially in the morning and at night when the world is still without contours, I am filled with sounds and music,” enthuses Talian. She searches the harmonies out of the keyboard of her piano, which develop into her compositions.

Her latest piece, entitled “Raindrops”, is a celebration of the infinity of life, of the individual and of becoming one with the world. In her compositions, she combines elements of classical music, jazz and the folk music of her Armenian heritage, transcending boundaries in a variety of ways.

Sona Talian understands our yearning for the intensity of the moment in every single note – and she fulfils it.

Sona just recently published her CD “Raindrops” with piano works, available at Amazon.
More information about this fine music here.

szenario arts handles artist management and marketing for Sona Talian.

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In the beginning of the year 2010, Sona Talian recorded her CD “raindrops”, proving her virtuosity on the piano. Get your own picture about her emotional and perfect play and listen to excertps from “raindrops”:

Like rain drops we live short
Like rain drops we live long
Falling into the sea
We are all one.
Swaying in the waves…
Breaking onto the rocks…
Striving up… falling down…
Eternal is this movement
From drop to sea, from sea to drop…
Eternal is this cycle.
And like a drop our life is finite.
And like a drop, our life is infinite…

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“Laduma!” (South African equivalent for “Goal!”) is an original AfroPop song, recorded in Cape Town and is South Africa’s football song for the world.

HOT WATER has made 32 international versions of this song: About 2 minutes into the song, Nik Rabinowitz (South African Comedian of the Year) commentates in your own language with your own soccer stars.

Bandleader Donovan:
“Our objective is to get the world to shout “LADUUUUUMAAAA !!!” in the future when a goal is scored and of course to celebrate each country’s efforts and their teams soccer stars.”

“…Hot Water must easily be one of the most exciting music projects to come out of South Africa recently” – The Citizen

Stylistically Hot Water’s music incorporates elements of traditional African music (such as kwela, mbaqanga, maskandi and kwasa kwasa) with folk, blues and indie-pop rock. They have mixed a brew that somehow manages to capture an authentic and unique South African feel and flavour. Southern African music has a natural instinct for celebration and Hot Water’s live performances have a magical way of spontaneously warming any event. Combining unusual instruments from South Africa and around the world, this cross-over collaboration creates a show at every performance, cutting across boundaries of age and culture.

South African singer, song-writer, guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, facilitator and band leader, Donovan Copley, has a talent not only for creating uplifting and authentic South African music…he has the knack for bringing together a consistently evolving group of musicians from very diverse backgrounds with an ever-fresh musical result that leaves audiences feeling inspired and proud to be South African.

A Gateway to the Soul and Spirit of South Africa.

And for the foreign audience, Hot Water opens a gateway to the soul and spirit which Africa and South Africa has to offer. In a world in crisis Hot Water’s music brings space, perspective and insight as well as inevitably drawing people to their feet.

Hot Water’s Live performance is a dynamic and often spontaneous tapestry of inspired songs from one of their two albums…and their upcoming third album. Donovan compares the band to a wheel, seeing himself as the hub in the centre while the band and collaborators hold and help the whole wheel spin.

Hot Water creates a space where people from any background have the opportunity to relate on common ground.

szenario arts and GRIOT provide labelcode and subpublishing services as well as live marketing for the European approach of Hot Water.

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An excerpt:

MUSICIAN 2.0, 3.0, 4.0…
Developing Music Careers in Uncertain Times
A Psycho-Spiritual-Musical Manifesto

By Peter Spellman

If you were to judge the health of the recording industry by the mainstream press you’d have to conclude things do look pretty bleak. Industry trade groups like the RIAA and the IFPI continue parading their woeful data on global CD sales and there are no signs of improvement. In real dollars the industry has been flat-lining for nine straight years.

And it’s not just the recording industry that’s ailing. Other sectors of the biz – music publishing, music products and the concert industries – are also registering declines.

The key word here is “industry”. It’s important for those in the biz to make the distinction between the music “industry” and the music “trade.” The former is primarily the domain of transnational corporations and organizations like the RIAA and the major music companies; the latter the domain of most musicians and a tremendous diversity of small music enterprises, most “under the radar” and perceived by the former as basically insignificant in the larger picture.

It’s anybody’s guess if the “industry” will re-emerge to its former financial glory (I doubt it), but if anything is clear to me as a student of history it’s that “the next big thing” is, well, small. There are forces at work taking the rug of necessity out from under large sectors of the corporate side of the biz, and not just the music industry either. The same is happening in film, design, hedge funds, travel, insurance, publishing, real estate and almost every other industry sector you can name.

Interestingly, the very same forces undoing long-standing industries are encouraging small-scale players. There is power in the corner of individuals today that there has never been before. In music, it’s particularly acute.

To flip Paul Simon’s lyrics from the song “Can’t Run”, “the music business suffers while the music thrives.” It’s nothing new that the coolest stuff has always come from outside the industry. But now the music trade has a chance to control its own processes too, apart from the pressures of corporate imperatives.

And that’s exactly what it’s doing.

What are these powers music workers now have? How about:

• the means to both produce and distribute music on a global scale,
• new business models to partner with in the world of music and beyond,
• the Internet pipeline that has clearly become an Open Mic to the world,
• lightweight plug-and-play software infrastructures providing musicians with ways to have the look, reach and efficiencies of larger companies.

We have the power to galvanize global audiences and build a network of support for the rest of our careers. Sounds pretty good, huh? It should. But remember the timeless words of Uncle Ben to Peter Parker: “With great power comes great responsibility”.

And that’s the rub…

the complete document can be downloaded here PDF (1.5 MB)

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Alpcologne vermischt Tradition und Moderne und findet die Balance zwischen Klang und Groove. Der volle, warme Sound der 4 Meter langen Fichtenhölzer trifft auf die Ausdrucksfähigkeit und die melodische Beweglichkeit der Stimme Victoria Riccios.

Es entstehen obertonreiche, faszinierende Klangwelten.

Ungewöhnlich ist das Konzept der Band. Alpcologne bedient sich unterschiedlichster Stil- und Musikrichtungen. Es ertönt traditionelle Alphornmusik aus der Schweiz, italienische Volksmusik, Ska, Tango, Mambo, Cajun und Bluegrass. Ob Eigenkomposition oder Neuinterpretation – Gesang und Alphörner verschmelzen zu einer spannenden musikalischen Einheit.

website: Alpcologne

ACE brings together artists and people who are interested in art.

As curators and consultants we collect professionally motivated artists and create opportunities for them amongst our international network of friends, associates and other artists. One of our primary goals is to support artists and help them to communicate with the rest of the world.

website ACE