"The term Raga, which is generally translated as ‘Melodic Formula’, is much more complex than just a specific mode, as usually expressed in Western music, but the true meaning of the word Raga is really ‘Emotion’. Here is an explanation of what he meant by "Raga"įrom "Documentation of Symphonic Works and Chamber Music (2013)" His music is a formulation of the emotions a ‘tuning of the heart’. Hidayat Inayat-Khan's music is a search for a combination of oriental raga systems and occidental polyphonic structures that follow as much as possible the basic principles of western music analysis while adding the enchanting flavour of oriental raga.
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He has assisted in the distribution of these projects and with his wife Fazalunissa Carole Harmon, was the organizer, in 2007, of the Mysticism of Sound Conference and Concert Series (MOSC) and it’s Communications and Music Director. Sill counts as important influences Sufi teachers and guides, including Shamcher Bryn Beorse and the French Sufi composer Hidayat Inayat-Khan whose forty year friendship has deepened and directed his understanding and practice of music.įrom 1985 to 2017 Gary assisted Hidayat Inayat-Khan as a performer, producer, and engineer of both formal music projects and compositions to accompany Sufi spiritual practices. Produced for Sound of Light, The Hague, Netherlands "Pachelbel’s Canon in D", "Bach", "Beethoven", "Fauré & Saint-Saëns", "Albinoni & Hayden", "Satie, variations on 3 Gymnopédies".
Gary studied with French composer, Hidayat Inayat-Khan, son of the the Sufi mystic and musician, Hazrat Inayat-Khan. piano, ensemble performance, music theory, sight singing and ear training, vocal accompaniment.Instructor at Grant McEwan College (Jazz Program): Private study included music theory with Gordon Delamont, Native Indian Culture with Abe Burnstick and Improvisational Acting with Keith Johnstone (University of Alberta). Film History with Miroslav Malik (Czeck pioneer of holography in art).Composition with Luigi Zaninelli and Piano with Gloria Saarinen.Music Studies at The University of Calgary: Stephen Temmer, (audio engineering) and Gene Youngblood, (future of electronic media).Murray Schaffer, Oscar Peterson, Carl Berger, Ursula Oppens, and other influential contemporary composers. Through the Banff Centre For The Arts, Gary has worked or studied with: He has been a musician, composer and teacher in Banff, Calgary and Edmonton and now lives with his wife Carole Harmon in the Canadian west coast town of Halfmoon Bay, British Columbia where he records and produces music in his own custom designed studio. Gary Sill was born to a band leader father and journalist mother in the small town of Fort Macleod, Alberta, on September 28, 1944. Find out more about Holly and her music on. Art on the Piano won awards One World Music Radio’s 2019 Best Solo Piano Album, Enlightened Piano Radio’s 2020 Best New Artist, and was nominated for Whisperings Radio Album of the Year. Her most recent album The Christmas Piano won ’s 2020 Best Holiday Piano category award. As a physical therapist, Holly has an inherent understanding of the healing power of music and enjoys creating compositions that are “easy on the nervous system.” Her training includes many years of private study, as well as piano and composition study at Indiana University.
Holly began studying violin at age three, piano at eight, and composing at nine. Over time, she has experienced that the spiritual pursuit and musical composition parallel hand in hand, with the freshness of evolution and inspiration revealed in the fabric of each new piece. “.you’ll realize you are in the presence of a true piano master.” -Dick Metcalf, Contemporary Fusion ReviewsĪward-winning American pianist/composer Holly Jones’s compositions are described as reverent and transcendent, instantly taking the listener to that state of centering calm that is so needed and reassuring in these times.įrom her earliest of years, she has sought the answers to the deeper questions of life and has discovered music to be the setting in which time stands still and truth is once again refreshingly revealed.
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