Keri Newdigate comes from a musical family in which everyone played an instrument and music was a very natural part of their lives. From an early age she played 2-piano music with her mother. She says "Music is a deep and integral part of my identity, and it is from this wellspring that my musical improvisations turned into compositions". She studied music at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa, then did a Masters in Music Therapy through City University, London, UK. Her post graduate training focussed on working with people with disabilities. In the first year she worked with children who were autistic, had Down's Syndrome, learning difficulties or were severely disabled and confined to wheelchairs. In her second year of training, she worked with adults in palliative care and in neurological rehabilitation. Her dissertation was on a musician who had had a right hemisphere stroke, and examined how this had impacted on his life. Keri lives in Cape Town, South Africa with her husband and 2 children, who bring sunshine, laughter and deep joy into her life. She writes "I consider myself extremely fortunately to be able to do two things that I love - be a musician and be a mother".

Still Waters

Tagged as: New Age, Neoclassical, Instrumental, Chillout, Classical Piano.

1. Jami Sieber: enchanting cello compositions
2. Francois Couture: Canadian composer, musician, orchestrator, arranger and sound designer
3. Dmitry Krasnoukhov: New age romantic piano music
4. Kourosh Dini: minimalist piano with slashes of ambient electronics
5. Jeff Wahl: acoustic new age and jazz guitar.
6. Chad Lawson: Multi-award winning pianist and composer who is not afraid to put his hat in anything
7. David Modica: layers of lush acoustic guitar
8. Timothy Vajda: viola da gamba in a contemporary context
9. Ehren Starks: piano and cello/jazzy new age
10. Hans Christian: new age meets Indian cello
11. Lydia McCauley: intriguing piano compositions with dynamic accompaniment
12. EuchMad: Hypnotic and touching, Euchmad immerses us in a fantasy world
13. Monom: ethnotronica, World music, electronic, downtempo, ambient techno, dystopia, cinematic, far-east, Australia and Europe
14. Gerard Satamian: Exquisite original melodic pieces
15. Saros: intelligent ambient downtempo
16. Koshanin: Piano Tales, Ancient Dreams
17. To Life!: Music as a journey through tribal landscapes, rhythmic dance, hypnotic trance.
18. Solar Cycle: a summer cocktail of Chill out, Electronica and Ambient
19. Daniel Estrem: colorful classical guitar
20. Lara St John: Bach violin concertos