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Stunning New Album for Award-Winning Australian Musician

Fiona Joy Hawkins’ Angel Above My Piano

 

One of Australia’s most internationally successful neo-classical musician/composers has launched a brilliant new ‘Angel Above my Piano’.

 

Fiona Joy Hawkins whose romantic, evocative work has been described as “music to dream to” is a truly international Australian music star. Winner of the NAR Lifestyle Music Award for Best Piano Album 2006, Fiona has charted at no.1 on the international New Age Reporter World Charts.  Fiona Joy Hawkins is the creator of the global YouTube Antarctic nature music video sensation www.penguinwhisperer.com  and she has was a grand finalist in the 2006 MusicOz Awards in the Classical music category.

 

 

Angel Above My Piano takes an emotional journey through a variety of landscapes. Beautifully orchestrated and haunting, its piano melodies span the perfect ‘Hollywood movie moment’ to the extraordinary wilderness of Antarctica.

 

Opening with “Antarctic Interludes”, Fiona Joy Hawkins brings to life the majesty and wilderness of the coldest continent.  Inspired by her expedition cruise on the Orion, she has captured the grandness yet fragility of a frozen and unique place. It’s an image she has shared, drawing thousands of ‘hits’ for her YouTube music video encounter with Adelie penguins!

 

The grand orchestration and soaring piano of “Opus For Love”  is soul-searching. “This piece represents the journey that spans the winter of our life, the heart-ache  we feel for those who have left us, and our sadness and joy when we look back to remember.”

 

Fiona is also a successful visual artist, based in the Blue Mountains. Her title track took its inspiration from an Angel that came in a dream. “The Angel signifies the strength we search for in times of need. She looks like someone you know but no-one you have ever met.”

 

Fiona also incorporates manuscripts of her music onto canvas to create bold colourful mixed media abstracts that allow the viewer to hear and see her music.

 

Truly an album of piano ‘music to dream to’, Angel Above My Piano by is filled with romantic melodies that are other-worldly and will transport you to places you have never imagined!   

 

Listen to music previews and view paintings as well as order at www.fionajoy.com 

 

Angel Above My Piano is available from Nov 2006 in ABC shops, good record stores and through i-tunes.