The Classics - Volume I

You've heard her at Carnegie Hall... You've seen her on David Letterman... Louise Thomas is an international concert pianist who has recorded and concertized extensively over the past fifteen years in studios and concert halls worldwide. Louise Thomas, a native of Ireland, is the recipient of all major Irish national awards. After completing her undergraduate music studies at Trinity College Dublin, Louise received a full scholarship to pursue a graduate piano performance degree at the Hochschule für Musik Hannover in Germany. She received her doctorate in piano performance from USC in southern California. In recent years Louise has performed in England, Russia, Austria, Germany and Canada as well as having performed regularly in her home country. In 1993, she won 2nd prize at the Ibla- Ragusa International Piano Competition in Sicily, where she was also awarded the Bela Bartók Prize. In 1998, she won the concerto competition at the Thornton School of Music at USC. An active chamber musician, Louise recorded with the Irish contemporary music group Nua Nós at the Banff Center for the Arts, Canada in addition to radio recordings for BBC radio in Northern Ireland and for Moscow Radio. She recently performed live for the national Ovation cable arts channel in Los Angeles which broadcasts to over 20 million subscribers. Currently she is director of the Collaborative Arts program at Chapman University in Southern California. Future performances include a tour of Taiwan in 2002 and concerts throughout the United States. Her interpretations of these piano classics are truly compelling. Enjoy over 60 minutes of the world's most beloved piano melodies on this digitally mastered compact disc. Extraordinary performances and state-of-the-art recording techniques combine to capture these pristine recordings. No audio file is complete without this classic collection. All of our recordings are performed by recognized artists on Steinway or Bösendorfer (9 foot) concert grand pianos. The recordings themselves are all captured and mastered digitally, preserving the pristine sound quality that our artists produce on these magnificent instruments. Your PianoClassicsOnline.com listening experience is as good as it gets, short of a live performance.