About the Artist
Suzanne Ciani is a composer, recording artist, and pioneer in
the field of electronic music. She is best loved for her fifteen
albums of original music that feature her performances in a broad
array of expressions: pure electronic, solo piano, piano with
orchestra, and piano with jazz ensemble. No matter the medium,
Ciani's music communicates the special intimacy, passion, and
sensitivity that have become her trademark and prompted fans to buy
over a million of her albums.
Her music, renowned for its romantic, healing, and aesthetic
qualities, has found a worldwide audience, and her performances
include numerous benefits for humanitarian causes. She has toured
throughout the United States, Italy, Spain, and Asia.
Her many recognitions include five Grammy nominations for Best
New Age Album, two Indie nominations for Best New Age Album,
numerous Clios, a Golden Globe, and Keyboard Magazine's "New Age
Keyboardist of the Year."
In the eighties and early nineties, Ciani's New York-based
commercial production company, Ciani-Musica, Inc., was the leader
in the field of sound design and TV spot scoring, creating
award-winning music for a host of high profile Fortune 500 clients,
including Coca-Cola, Merrill Lynch, AT&T, and General Electric.
Additionally, Ciani has scored the Lily Tomlin feature The
Incredible Shrinking Woman; the award-winning feature documentary,
Mother Teresa; the feature documentary, Mother Teresa: The Legacy;
as well as scoring for the TV daytime serial One Life to Live.
In the early nineties Ciani relocated to northern California to
concentrate on her artistic career. In 1995, she established her
own record label, Seventh Wave. After many years as an artist on
major labels (Atlantic Finnadar, RCA RedSeal, Private Music/Windham
Hill/BMG), Ciani felt the need to own and control her own creative
work. Seventh Wave has remained an exemplar of the artist-friendly
independent record label since then.
In addition to her fifteen albums, Ciani has published three
books of original piano music through the Hal Leonard Corporation:
Suzanne Ciani: New Age Piano, Suzanne Ciani: Dream Songs, and
Suzanne Ciani: Turning. Her signature composition, "The Velocity of
Love," appears in numerous anthologies of romantic music.
Ciani is a graduate of Wellesley College and holds a Masters in
Music Composition from U.C. Berkeley.
1. The eight wave
2. Lay down beside me
3. The velocity of love
4. Malibuzios
5. History of my heart