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Colby-Sawyer Hosts Contemporary Pianist, Composer Robin Spielberg
NEW LONDON, N.H., Nov. 14, 2006 — Colby-Sawyer College will host a solo concert by popular contemporary pianist Robin Spielberg, a performer known for engaging audiences with her story-telling and accessible musical style.
Spielberg will perform on Wednesday, Nov. 29, at 7 p.m. in the Sawyer Fine Arts Center Theatre. Tickets are $10/adults or $5/students/children and may be purchased through the college box office at (603) 526-3670.
“Robin has such a personal and expressive way of playing, and her story-telling about the origins of the music makes the pieces come alive,” wrote a critic for Wind & Wire Magazine. Sound Mind Magazine described her music as “extremely moving…evocative, beautiful…These pieces go straight for the heart and then stay there.”
Spielberg began touring the United States in 1996 and made her Carnegie Hall debut in a sold-out performance the following year. She has performed in the PBS television special, “The Soul of Christmas: A Celtic Music Celebration with Thomas Moore,” as well as on “CBS Saturday Morning” and other television programs.
Spielberg has made 13 recordings, including four albums of original piano solos and two recordings of American standards and film songs. Her piano solo work includes “Heal of the Hand,” “Songs of the Spirit,” “Dreaming of Summer” and Memories of Utopia.” Her American standard albums are titled “With a Song in My Heart” and “Unchained Melodies.”
In other recordings, Spielberg combined solo and ensemble work, ballads and instrumentals, original pieces with the work of other artists. “In the Arms of the Wind” includes her original pieces for solo piano and piano/ensemble, while “Mother” is a collaborative CD containing instrumentals, sung ballads and songs celebrating mothers and motherhood. She has also produced four recordings of holiday music, “Spirit of the Holidays,” “In the Heart of Winter,” “American Chanukah” and “The Christmas Collection” and a recording of lullabies titled “Beautiful Dreamer.“
Spielberg's interest in music and healing grew when she witnessed first-hand, the positive effect music had on her premature daughter during her four-month stay in the neo-natal intensive care unit. Her “Beautiful Dreamer” was the musical result of this experience, a recording of lullabies and songs for the parent and child on solo piano. The CD was hailed by Child Magazine as one of “The Best of 2000.”
Spielberg serves as celebrity spokesperson for The American Music Therapy Association and donates $1 from the sale of each "Beautiful Dreamer" CD to music therapy research. She conducts workshops and seminars on the topic of music and healing throughout the nation in hospitals, schools, community centers, nursing care facilities and performing arts centers.
The box office will be open for ticket sales for the Robin Spielberg concert on the following dates: Monday, Nov. 20, from 4 to 6 p.m.; Tuesday, Nov. 21, from 4 to 6 p.m.; Monday, Nov. 27, from 4 to 6 p.m.; Tuesday, Nov. 28 from 4 to 6 p.m.; and on the day of the show, Wednesday, Nov. 29, from 3 to 7 p.m.
To learn more about Robin Spielberg, visit her Web site at www.robinspielberg.com.
