Anna Heller plays the original composition by French composer Nicholas McRoberts “Sur le Pont Neuf” Nocturne No. I. Discover more exciting modern piano music with Moving Classics TV. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4MxPiZU2NzBmZ78mnPx3qq?si=XK6K8mjOQg21ivMhCj5biA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/movingclassicstv Webpage: https://movingclassics.tv/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/moving_classics LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anna-heller-pianist ..read more

Anna Heller plays the original composition “Golden Hour” by Alla Pavlova. About the composer: Alla Pavlova was born in Ukraine. As a girl she lived in Vinnitsa city, then moved with her Russian-born parents to Moscow in 1961. In 1975 she received her Bachelor’s Degree at the Ippolitov–Ivanov Music Institute. In 1983 she received her Master’s Degree at the Gnesin Academy of Music in Moscow. From 1983 to 1986 she lived in the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, where she worked for the Union of Bulgarian composers and the Bulgarian National Opera. From 1986 to 1989 she was in Moscow, working for the Russi ..read more

Anna Heller plays the original piano music “Black Rain” by Garreth Brooke. Black Rain is inspired by one of the closing scenes in the novel of the same name by Masuji Ibuse, an astonishing and profoundly grim semi-autobiographical account of the bombing of Hiroshima. Towards the end, the protagonist, who survives all the destruction, sees some unscathed baby eels swimming in a stream. The sight of these miraculous survivors gives the protagonist hope. First released on my debut album Coping Mechanism, the composer re-recorded it on my beautiful C. Bechstein upright and released it in 2022. Thi ..read more

Anna Heller plays the original composition by Amy Rita “Orbit”. Amy Rita is an Australian Swiss pianist, composer and actor born in 2000 in Albany, Western Australia. Amy grew up in the beach town Queenscliff, then moved to Melbourne when she was 16 years old to pursue her artistic endeavours. Throughout her adolescence, she performed constantly in orchestra’s, quartets and solos with piano, cello and voice. After a successful start to her career in film acting. Amy took a break in 2022 to focus on her first passion, classical music. In 2022, Amy recorded her debut collection of original moder ..read more

Anna Heller plays the original composition by French pianist and composer William Trojman. It is called Chants Pandoriens Etude I : Le chant des apôtres. Study I, titled “The Song of the Apostles,” is a sacred musical piece that evokes the solemn and fervent voices of the apostles but in the modern musical language that is easily understandable to most people. Composer about himself: “William Trojman Arranger, Composer, Interpreter, Publisher, Teacher France, Nice About the artist Passionate about the piano since the age of three years old. Open to many styles including jazz (Chick Corea, Osca ..read more

Anna Heller plays the original composition by UK composer Cheryl Frances- Hoad. “Contemplation is a meditation on a few bars from the second movement of Grieg’s Sonata op.7 (bars 17-20). I was very taken by these bars, which to me seemed typically ‘Griegian’: the e minor chord with the added c sharp, and dominant minor chords. The piece was written in a matter of hours, and I simply elaborated upon Grieg’s chords, feeling my way on the piano as I wrote.” © Cheryl Frances-Hoad, 2015 “Frances-Hoad’s implicit trust in the expressive power of her melodic invention and harmonic thinking is paramoun ..read more

Anna Heller plays the Impromptu Nr 3 by Alla Pavlova composed in December 2019. lla Pavlova was born in Ukraine. As a girl she lived in Vinnitsa city, then moved with her Russian-born parents to Moscow in 1961. In 1975 she received her Bachelor’s Degree at the Ippolitov–Ivanov Music Institute. In 1983 she received her Master’s Degree at the Gnesin Academy of Music in Moscow. From 1983 to 1986 she lived in the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, where she worked for the Union of Bulgarian composers and the Bulgarian National Opera. From 1986 to 1989 she was in Moscow, working for the Russian Musical Soci ..read more

Anna Heller plays the original composition by Jose-Daniel Martinez-Miranda “Fallen Petals Waltz”. The composer allowed himself to be influenced by Chopin (main theme) and by Debussy (second theme). Here is a link for music score, if you like to play it yourself. https://musescore.com/user/4075641/scores/5494422 This waltz was conceived after reading a poem written by the wife of the composer Arabella Martínez (Floranocturna) from her collection Fallen Petals; https://www.wattpad.com/story/179192197-fallen-p-e-t-a-l-s ..read more

Anna Heller plays the selected compositions from the piano cycle “Weegee Photos” by American composer Greg Sandow. Watch some photos by Weegee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYle0fixtR8 Weegee was a famous New York photographer. He was born Ascher Fellig in Zolochly, Ukraine. When his family emigrated to the US his given name was changed to Arthur. He took odd jobs including working as a street photographer of children with his pony, and as an assistant to a commercil photographer. In 1924 he was hired as a darkroom technician until 1935, when he became a freelance photographer. He worked at ..read more

Anna Heller plays “Music for a Summer Evening ” by Peteris Vasks. Peteris Vasks has a special role within the scene of Baltic composers. He is not simply the most important and popular composer Latvia has ever had. He always speaks to his listeners with an intensity that is fervent and heralds of something higher. This higher is undoubtedly what is above the human world and at the same time is inherent in man: the divine nature. The composer says: ‘I am very deeply rooted in nature. In the Nordic nature. Her influence permeates all of my music. Our nature is very versatile, we have four distin ..read more