Close your eyes, sit back in a comfy chair, and imagine a beautiful interlacing of impressionistic and contemporary harmonies drifting from piano music that might provide the soundtrack for your favorite tear-inducing drama. Now you can skip the imagination part and let this video fill in the music for you:
Goodnight, Sweet Dreams is one of six compositions by Lisa Donovan Lukas.
To Raise The Wind Horse is an imaginative duet that was premiered at the Daniel Pearl World Music Days concert in California. You can read a little about the inspiration and history of the composition on the Daniel Pearl Music Days website. I can think of several horse-loving students that would love to learn this duet!
Each piece presents fairly advanced rhythmic challenges, but the end results are well worth it! The most accessible of Lisa’s six works is A Song From the Garden. It has a lovely singing melody, and could be handled by a motivated intermediate student.
I think Summer Dance would be an engaging selection for a student looking for a fresh contemporary piece to use for a festival or contest. Waiting is a rich, gorgeous piece that I’m adding to my collection of wedding and prelude music. And A Passing Cloud is a great mood piece if you or a student are looking for something to sink your hands into and let your expressiveness take you away. 
I love that you can download samples and listen to full recordings of each piece on the Alberti Publishing website! But I love even more that Lisa has offered to giveaway a copy of each of her compositions to Music Matters Blog readers! Six winners will be given one of her pieces and you can enjoy it yourself and/or use it with a student in your studio. Just leave a comment below and six winners will be chosen using a random number generator at noon (CST) on Thursday, February 9, 2012.
Groovy Cool! Thanks for the chance!
Sounds lovely!
Lovely pieces there! Lots of variety of style!
This is so nice!
These pieces are very beautiful. Perfect for playing in church!!!
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Beautiful music . . . what a great gift!
Looks like some good music to look into.
looking forward to try out new pieces
Sounds great – thanks for this giveaway!
beautiful music – thanks for the giveaway!
I just got a new student who LOVES horses so I’ve been on the lookout lately for some pieces she would like!
Thanks for the review of such beautiful music! Sounds like something many musicians would like the challenge to learn to play! Looking forward to trying these pieces!
Always looking for new material by current composers!
Great imaginative pieces. Thanks for the giveaway contest. How fun!
Would love to win!
I would love to have the piece Waiting. <3
Always wonderful to learn about new (to me) composers of piano music!
Would love to try one of these compositions! One of my high schoolers is always up for a new rhythmic challenge!
Even the titles are pretty……love to try them all!
So beautiful and relaxing… I’d love to try this book.
Beautiful! This is just the kind of music I live for.
How fun!
Maybe I’ll get lucky again!
So beautiful! Thanks for sharing.
LOVELY!!!
So pretty. Count me in!
So pretty! I’d love to participate in the drawing!
This looks great!
Thanks! I am thrilled to have the opportunity to participate in the drawing! Beautiful music to share with my piano students!
This looks wonderful, Natalie! Thank you for including us in the drawing!
The giveaway was so much fun! I was so honored to read Natalie’s beautiful review. She absolutely captured the essence of my pieces with her words — & it was very gratifying to feel the enthusiasm from Natalie’s readers as well. I appreciated being a part of the whole experience. I hope the winners enjoy playing the music! With all the best wishes always, Lisa xox