Under the red hot lights at the Lost Leaf, the Resort Collection kicked off with an evening of solo piano classics from my days at the Old Faithful Inn and beyond. The pieces selected mixed Classical favorites with obscure works from the early 1900’s and arrangements from film and popular music for an eclectic and nostalgic sound.
Lost Leaf
Found Footage
Below are a few images from July and August - spent performing in the evenings at the Old Faithful Inn, and exploring the incredibly powerful natural landscape in this national park; a landscape which has inspired so many musicians. What a privilege it was to spend a month at the piano in this wonderful, historic building, knowing that the music reached even to its highest point near the Crow's Nest where the orchestra once played.
"Space is the breath of art" -Frank Lloyd Wright
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Photographer and videographer extraordinaire Danny Upshaw recently put together a beautiful video capturing the David and Gladys Wright House and 150th birthday celebration of Frank Lloyd Wright last week. It was a wonderful experience to play the Steinway & Sons grand piano in a historic Phoenix space that will now be preserved through the School of Architecture at Taliesin.
Featured pianist and composer in short film by local photographer Danny Upshaw of Magnetry, Inc.
