New Age pianists

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 37. Chapters: Sun Ra, Bradley Joseph, Jim Brickman, Yanni, Wilhelm Schröter, Anaya Music, Yiruma, John Tesh, Keiko Matsui, Jon Schmidt, Philip Aaberg, David Lanz, Brian Kelly, Usman warsi, Paul Sullivan, Miles Black, Laurie Z, Jan Fryderyk Dobrowolski, Fiona Joy Hawkins, Mike Nock, André Gagnon, Kevin Kern, Zamora, Scott D. Davis, Michael Jones, Kathryn Toyama, Yukie Nishimura, Giovanni Marradi, Kent Marcum, Yuhki Kuramoto, Marcelo Zarvos. Excerpt: Bradley Joseph (born 1965) is an American composer, arranger, and producer of contemporary instrumental music. His compositions include works for orchestra, quartet, and solo piano, while his musical style ranges from "quietly pensive mood music to a rich orchestration of classical depth and breadth". Active since 1983, Joseph has performed in front of more than a half million people around the world. He played various instruments in rock bands throughout the Midwest until 1989 when Greek composer Yanni hired him for his core band after hearing a tape of his original compositions. He was a featured concert keyboardist with Yanni through six major tours, most recently in 2003 for the 60-city Ethnicity tour. He appears in the multi-platinum album and concert film, Yanni Live at the Acropolis. Joseph also spent four years as musical director and lead keyboardist for Sheena Easton, including a 1995 performance on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. His solo career began when he independently released Hear the Masses, featuring many of his Yanni bandmates. This debut was followed by Rapture, an instrumental album recorded with a 50-piece orchestra in which Joseph wrote and conducted all of the scores. It was released on the Narada label and reached New Age Voice (NAV)'s "Airwaves Top 30". He has produced numerous CDs/DVDs and piano books under his own record label, Robbins Island Music. Two of these recordings, Christmas Around the World and One Deep Breath, also held positions on NAV's Top 100 radio chart. His music is included in multiple various-artist compilation albums including the 2008 release of The Weather Channel Presents: Smooth Jazz II. Bradley Joseph was born in 1965 and raised in Willmar, Minnesota, graduating from Willmar Senior High School in 1983. He learned how to play piano from a how-to piano book he found in the piano bench. One morning his father taught him how to play a boogie-woogie blues tune and by nightfall he could play the entire piece. He starte