At the heart of Iris Hond's musical journey is the piano—an instrument she masterfully wields to weave a universal language of music. Her compositions transcend the boundaries of genre, inviting listeners into a realm where the lines between styles blur, and a new sonic landscape emerges.

I started playing piano at age six and soon discovered my passion for improvising and writing my own music. My first larger composition was a Christmas musical which I composed at the age of 11. I played in various bands, studied musical theory as well as classical organ for a couple of years, and earned my first money as a teenager by playing piano for smaller audiences at different occasions.
Today, I find great happiness in creating music and sharing it with others. What drives me is the hope that my music can give people something they might need in the moment of listening: relaxation, comfort, happiness.
My musical and creative style can be described as a mix between ambient, modern, calm piano pieces and classical, melodious soundtracks. My personal leitmotif and the guiding principle at the heart of each of my compositions is always the same: a simple, sincere melody.

My name is Leonard Lehmann. I am 33 years old and I have live most of my life in Berlin, where I was also born. I started to learn the piano at the age of 7 and went to music school for 13 years. Besides taking music lessons, I have always liked to just sit at the piano and "noodle around", constantly looking for new ways to express myself through the instrument. Ever since I felt drawn into interesting harmonies or inspiring rhythms. Music probably always played the biggest role in my life, as I truly believe that music has the power to open doors of ones soul but also the souls of others. In a world full of separation, music can bring people closer together.

Bernie Rosa is an award-winning pianist and composer with a vibrant imagination and ardent work ethic, based in New York City. Bernie’s music is enamored with the interweaving of pulsating patterns that he shapes at the piano. These unique motifs breathe fresh energy into the neoclassical genre. Much like his personality, his music is vibrant, bold and iridescent. He continues to find animating soundscapes amid the intersecting currents of the old and new. In pursuit of his passion for music, Bernie attended some of the most prestigious music conservatories in the world, including the Tchaikovsky Conservatory and Manhattan School of Music.

Joe Semple is a pianist and composer based in the UK. Having been making music for almost all his life, some time ago he began to focus on composing and recording melodic, piano based pieces.Taking influence from late 19th/early 20th century composers, as well as contemporary artists, his music is both emotive and compositionally complex. Joe has performed solo pieces live, including at one of the acclaimed Brudenell piano sessions, and his music has been played several times on BBC radio. Currently Joe is continuing to develop his playing and compositional style, with a plan to having a strong output of music for a long time to come.

Ronan was born in the city Amersfoort in the Netherlands. At a young age Ronan learned to play the piano from his dedicated Czech teacher.In his youth Ronan listened also a lot to piano music from well know composers like Frédéric Chopin and Ludwig van Beethoven. Ronan is absolutely influenced by these great pianists, but he also found inspiration by modern classical pianists, such as Ludovico Einaudi. Characteristic of his own piano music is that it sounds emotional & atmospheric and that it still has a lot of forward motion. That’s why his sound is quite unique. His ambition is to give his audience beautiful, dreamy and easy listening classical piano music. Ronan also strives to bring you music that’s great as the soundtrack for your professional project as well as the soundtrack of your life.

Tommaso Farinetti is an italian classical piano performer and composer with musical interests ranging from the romantic repertoire for piano solo to the experiments of free improvisation and modern electronic music.He cultivates an intense artistic activity in Germany, as a soloist and with projects in ensemble with concerts in prestigious halls such as the Isarphilarmonie, Prinzregentertheater, Künstlerhaus, Gasteig. Among all the projects the „Minimal Duo“ with the pianist Serena Chillemi stands out, which aims to spread the mostly unexplored repertoire of minimal music for two pianos. He performs world premieres for the international composition Carl-Orff- competition and he is linked by a fruitful collaboration with the Münchnern Symphoniker orchestra.He is also passionate about contemporary italian history and collaborates with MNEO (the Italian Memory Archive) on the composition of the original music for a series of six documentaries that give voice to a moving story of the witnesses of the beginning of the Covid pandemic in Italy in 2020: “Through the walls. Stories at the time of the pandemic “. The film version of this huge work became a feature film broadcast in prime time on the italian network television Rete 4. On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Bologna massacre at the central train station in 1980 he has soundtracked the documentary film "Our truths" on the testimonies of survivors.He explores ever new languages und experiments with forms of performance in unusual places, such as the concert at sunrise on top of the disused tower of the NATO base on the Hoher Bogen mountain in Bavaria, a few kilometers from the border with the Czech Republic, which belonged to the Soviet Union until 1989. Music suspended between two worlds.

Tom is a 20-year-old neoclassical composer from Leeds, UK. He has made a name for himself with his distinctive relaxing sound, inserting his trademark harmonies and motifs into his music. Having been featured on over 60+ editorial playlists on both Spotify and Apple Music, it is clear that Tom creates music that resonates with its listeners. He is currently writing some of his best work to date, by composing exactly what he wishes to write, rather than fitting in a box. This has allowed Tom to experiment and push the boundaries of felted piano music, resulting in huge support from both Spotify and Apple Music. He has just surpassed 50M streams on all platforms, and hopes to keep sharing his music with the world.

The piano has forever been there. Tjeerd Oosterhuis, born and raised in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, discovered the instrument at the family home. Inspired by the music of his mother, a professional violin player, and father, a well known poet and church music lyricist, he got a feel for it and received his first classical training at age seven. In his teens Tjeerd developed a taste for popular music and started the band Total Touch that recorded two hugely succesful albums. Based on that he started his own music production company, now called DEMP Music, to extend his allround creativity. Since then he has written hundreds of classically inspired compositions and did production for popular artists, movies, musicals and much more. Most of these were based on his own ideas he got while playing the piano and several of his productions reached multi-platinum status. Over the years Tjeerd has always been creating private piano compositions and recently he has devoted more time to his playing. He has also been recording his brand new, original compositions in the field of neo-classical music which are now being made available to the public. As still, the piano is always there.

Soetkin Milbouw is a Belgian contemporary pianist and composer. Soetkin had an early introduction to music, learning the piano from her grandmother at a young age. After years of learning classical music, she began finding her own sound and started composing music inspired by contemporary classical composers such as and . After the release of her first EP Nubes Papilio in 2017, Soetkin teamed up with the New York based label Sonder House for the release of Equinox, several singles followed. In 2021 she released her first single with the Dutch label Andante.In 2020 she was invited to the Outlaw Ocean music project by Ian Urbina, an investigative reporter of The New York Times. In February 2021 her double single for the project, ‘Arctic Waters’, was released and received a lot of publicity in Belgium.

The music of Simone d'Harmange is essentially about finding beauty in the little things. Their work is characterized by simplicity, boiled down to the essence of what they want to express yet sophisticated in a way, that keeps the listeners ear forever. 'There has never been a time where it was so easy to get distracted as today. I try to stir away from that aggravating trend by writing music that helps you focusing on what's really important in life.'

My full name is Nicke Sigvard Holgersson and I am from Stockholm, Sweden, currently living in the country side outside of Lidköping. Music has always been a natural part of my life since I am brought up in a family full of music. Both my parents and my three brothers are musicians. As a kid and teen, I played several instruments e.g. piano, violin, flute, bass, trombone, drums, etc. I’ve played in different orchestras, both classical and big bands, and I’ve been singing in choirs. I went to the music school "Adolf Fredriks Musikklasser" in Stockholm which was the key to learn music theory. I focused more on playing piano and synthesizers in my mid-teens as that became the instruments I used when I began to compose my own music. Today I compose and produce music in different genres, from contemplative piano and orchestral music to pop, jazz, AOR. With my artist profile Sigvard and my piano music, I wish to help my listeners find inner peace and harmony. For me, music is the ultimate way to express my emotions and feelings. I hope that my music can find a way to the listeners soul.

Young self produced composer, singer, multi-instrumentalist and virtuoso pianist, Sarah Coponat brings classical and contemporary elements together, mixing neoclassical piano with electronic elements and vocals. In 2022, she stands out on streaming platforms like Twitch where she brings together several thousand listeners during live improvisation concerts, and on Spotify where she has more than 25 million plays. She toured around the world, on major stages, in Senegal, in New York for Rolling Stone Magazine, at the Steinway & Sons house in Paris, in Berlin, Amsterdam, in many theatres in France, at the Frames Festival, at the "Pop-corn" twitch festival in Montcuq, or at the Dôme de Marseille in front of 8,000 people.A prolific artist, she already has 4 albums to her credit and more than a hundred titles on streaming platforms. Her musical universe is inspired by the great classical composers such as Liszt, Rachmaninoff or film music like John Williams. Her captivating music can also be compared to that of neo-classical composers such as Max Richter or Nils Frahm, with a classical virtuosity .

Samuel Elliott is a German pianisst and composer. Born into a family of musicians in 1998, he early got in touch with the art of composing, the power of music and the beautiful sound of the piano.Due to a rare and severe disease he lost most of his eyesight over a few months when he was 16 years old. While beginning to cope with this cut, the piano was going to be the greatest support – and started to be the closest and most constant companion back in that tough time.After various fulfilling experiences in classical music he started composing peaceful and calming music for the piano – and still is.

"I begin playing purely by feeling and allow my intuition to guide me from the first notes on the piano, naturally leading to the unfolding of a musical piece.”

Improvisation, the art of conjuring something out of nothing, is Ron Adelaar’s preffered method of composition. He has been cultivating this approach since his early years, beginning with playing organ and piano in churches of his hometown, Amersfoort, at the age of 13.

Ron Adelaar (1960) effortlessly translates a range of emotions into his music, drawing inspiration from his life experience, human relationships, and the wonders of nature. How he can so easily translate his feelings into music remains a mystery to Ron himself, but the melodies he weaves resonate with a universal language that transcends words

These improvisations, often recorded in one go, aid the listener in meditation, relaxation and concentration.

Ron Adelaar also serves as an A&R, scouting and guiding talent for the Amsterdam-based record label Andante Piano.

Mikael Oterhals is a 24-year-old pianist and composer based in Stockholm, Sweden. His musical interest started as a child when his parents bought him a keyboard for Christmas. In later years, he studied Classical Music and Jazz music and composition. After 18 years of playing the piano and having worked as a composer, Mikael took interest in writing and composing his own piano music, often inspired by other genres such as Jazz, Pop and Film Music.

An eclectic and versatile musician, Raffaele Grimaldi is composer, pianist, conductor and producer. He received a classical education that led him to graduate in Piano and Composition. He has mastered the styles of a wide and multifaceted repertory that ranges from installation to media composition, and traditional forms like opera, instrumental music solo, chamber music and orchestral. His compositions have been performed in Europe, USA, Japan, Russia, Australia. He regularly plays piano both as soloist and with various formations, playing music by classical and contemporary composers, and his own compositions. Besides he cultivates the painting, poetry and the philosophy with particular interest.

My name is Pol Solonar. I’m composer and pianist from Kyiv, Ukraine. I compose and perform my own music about 15 years. Also I compose music for movies and theater. In Ukraine I work with many artists and singers as keyboard player and pianist. In 2020 I presented my debut piano Album named Melancholy and played it in Europe

The music of 'Nolan Khan' is all about telling a story and shaping the perfect atmosphere around it. Every note within every melody is carefully chosen, bringing the story down to the essence of what he wants to tell the audience. Every rhythmical pattern serves to carry those melodies and set the mood for the story, creating the desired atmosphere.Being classically trained on the piano, Khan acquired a profound understanding of music resulting in compositions that are crafted in a way to perfectly work in the background as well as in a concert.

Noah Evans is the new neo-classical project of German pianist, composer and producer Luca Sestak. As tribute to some of his biggest musical influences he blends the worlds of romantic, neo- classical piano with jazz and pop in an intimate, soft sound setting that makes you want to close your eyes and be carried away.Minimalism runs like a golden thread through Evans’ pieces, which he records and produces in his home studio in Mannheim, Germany.

Michiel Borstlap is an award-winning and renowned pianist and composer from The Netherlands. He has built himself an international reputation as a jazz pianist, and since 2010 his focus is on spacious, melodic classical and contemporary influences. Borstlap has work on many collaborations with world renowned artists such as Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Gino Vannelli, Ludovico Einaudi, the Scapino Ballet and lately with Dutch producer Joris Voorn.

ince the age of 4, sitting at the piano has been a place of comfort, relaxation and expression for Australian pianist and composer Melany Thompson. Classically trained as a child, Melany began creating her own original music as a teenager, but only in recent years has she taken her passion to the next level by recording and sharing her music with the world. Described as 'hauntingly beautiful', her emotive compositions are written from the heart to help transmit a sense of peace and provide a space for deep reflection.Her debut solo piano album ‘Memories of Home’ was released in 2019 and was nominated for SoloPiano.com's 2019 Classical Album of the Year. Since then Melany has released music with Australian label Yellow Rose Records, New York based label Sonder House and the German neo-classical label Silent Beat Records. She is also a Whisperings Solo Piano artist and her music can be heard on One World Music radio and across all digital music streaming platforms.

Michel Haspeslagh is a classically trained composer and piano enthusiast living in Bruges. Piano has always played an important role in his life and allowed him to escape into another universe of squeaking pedals, whispering hammers and vibrating snares.

Lorenzo Balzotti is an Italian composer specialized in neoclassical music for solo piano. He lives in Rome and studied Music Composition at the Conservatory of Music Santa Cecilia. He also graduated in Mathematics. He combines classical piano with minimalism, using felted piano to obtain a refined sound.

The sound of Louis Mercier is gentle and appealing, soothing yet innovative and always adds that little pinch of French Café vibe to it, just to put you in the right mood.

Laurent Sakura, born in Oporto, Portugal, in March 1974.Studied at the Oporto music conservatory in trumpet and piano class. Also attended the Oporto Jazz School and the degree at Instituto Politécnico do Porto for teaching music.As music production is one of the passions, the Recording School of Sheffield and The Point Black School in London was the choice to learn and improve the knowledge.Resident pianist in a Hotel from 1993 to the present and accompanying pianist for several artists has been one of the importante activities as professional since always. As a music producer, started the activity in 2007 and since from the very begining always with the interest of recording and producing classical music.In 2012 started an own production company even more focused on classical music.As a pianist the interest in composition brought motivation to record piano solos and lately exploring the Piano Felt.This way of creating and playing became the aim to continue to grow as a musician and person.Piano Felt adds a lots of sensitivity and space to “create direct sounds to the soul”!The creation of this EP is a tale of several life stories through music…the most universal means of communication

german based pianist, neo-classical & impressionistic composer and piano teacher. Classical trained since the age of nine and never stopped playing piano. Studied as a professional musician at the hamburg school of music and played in several bands, choirs and theatres.

Josh Kramer is a composer and pianist with roots in Ohio and Minnesota, and currently resides in Ankara, Turkey. His music has been used in productions around the world including numerous tv spots, films, advertisements and commercials for the likes of Chevy, Burberry and others. As a huge fan of artists like Olafur Arnalds, Josh was honored to have his music used in a series of major ballet performances entitled “Escaping the Weight of Darkness” at the National Theatre of Japan in Tokyo.Josh’s mus is emotional, sensitive and melancholic and stems from tumultuous times in his life in which music was the ultimate catharsis and creative outlet. In a world increasingly fraught with so many issues and uncertainty, it is his hope that his music can serve not only as a temporary refuge and escape from our often cahotic society, but also be a source of inspiration and creativity.

Jordi Forniés is a Spanish musician, composer, and visual artist based in Singapore. His compositions reflect his contemplative and expansive nature, drawing on neoclassical and ambient electronic music. A classically trained pianist since childhood, educated at Conservatorio Profesional de Música de Vila-seca in Spain, Forniés returned to music study in 2017, gaining an MFA in Music Composition and Orchestration at Chichester University in the UK. He is a member of the Composers Society of Singapore.He has often collaborated with other well-known artists, including Bouvaque with photographer and filmmaker Han Sungpil, for which Forniés’ created a piano and string quartet score. He also composed for films, including Caroline Fink’s epic documentary about the receding of the largest glacier in Switzerland, Aletsch: Of Ice and Men, 2016, and made music for documentaries and video installations with Gitta Gsell. He also worked on Yan Wang Preston’s major project Mother River, exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 2015.

John Vegard Schow is a Norwegian pianist, composer and music producer. After 100 million plays at YouTube and the music spread to 180 countries through film and TV, John Vegard Schow returns to his roots and releases music for piano.Many of his compositions has challenging and exciting stories; How can we achieve peace amidst all our troubles? How can we give peace a chance in our lives? Schow has in these compositions researched for the quietness between the notes - which gives these songs a special calmness.After the critically acclaimed release “Blått hjerte” (Blue Heart), together with his Schow Trio, he lets the piano speak by itself and explore the nature between pop, jazz and classical music.

John Ether is Dutch pianist, improviser and composer. Influenced by classical music, snatches of dreams and the landscapes of the Netherlands, he uses his length to create full and distinctive sounds on the keyboard. From a young age, Jesse was playing the piano to help him make sense of life and put it into music. As he grew up, he learned that living in the moment was the ultimate goal and also the place where the magic happens.John Ether is using a piano, playing it as a surfer catching a wave. The music is intuitive, created in the moment and pulled right out of the wavelengths of creativity flowing through our world...'

Holly Jones is an award-winning American pianist and composer whose compositions are described as reverent and transcendent, instantly taking the listener to the state of centering calm that is so needed and reassuring in these times. From her earliest of years, she has sought the answers to the deeper questions of life and has discovered music to be the setting in which time stands still and truth is once again refreshingly revealed.

Grégoire Jokic is a French pianist and composer from Normandy. He composes for piano and electronic music.He started playing the piano at the age of 6 in a local music school and then quickly turned to improvised music, which he studied at the Caen Conservatory.Grégoire is part of a generation of pianists who wish to bring together the world of piano, electronic music and improvisation.

An eclectic Italian pianist, Francesco is active in many musical genres such as pop, classical, swing, jazz, Latin. Graduated in Piano, Jazz Music and Didactics of the musical instrument at the Conservatory of Cosenza (Italy), he completed his preparation with a university degree in Disciplines of the arts, music and entertainment. He has published various transcriptions of classical pieces for both concert and educational purposes. From April 2022 he began his career as a modern-neoclassical piano composer.

Self-taught pianist and composer born in Italy. I found music as a tool to give life to my emotions and feelings, and i hope you can find in my songs a place to shelter from the world for some minutes.

Dario Crisman is an Italian pianist and composer. At a young age he studied classical music, and in his early adulthood he began playing rock and new-wave music. Over the years he dabbed into different genres as a producer and arranger, before taking a 15 years break. In 2015 he resumed composing and playing his main instrument, the piano, following modern classical-minimal approach and influences. For him, music - above all - has the task of describing his inner world and feelings.

Daniel Ketchum is an American Master pianist and composer. His arrangements flow with a mixture of Neo-classical and new age style music. Daniel’s greatest ambition is to combine his love of composing music with his beliefs in natural healing. Music in it’s most pure form is vibration, and as scientists have found, our universe is made up of frequencies (or vibration). This is why he believes that music is a potent healing force and it can physically change the state at which we vibrate, thus creating health.

Born in Argentina, 32 years old. Started music at my 20's. Used to train as a pro soccer player but suffered an important injury at 15 years old which disabled me from pursuing such career. It was thanks to that accident that I came to discover music and incorporated it into my every day life.I have been playing live gigs as a pianist and singing for many bands. Produced many tracks for other artists as well. Started releasing my own music a year and a half ago using three different monikers: "Heart 2 Heart Relaxing Music", "Vivaldi Cristian" and "Cristian Vivaldi"

bzur is a 46 year old musician imprisoned inside the body of an engineer: a constant calm struggle between rational and instinctive drives.He lives music as a physiological need: as such, any results of his compositional activity must be shared, with all the consequences that it entails. His music is basically melancholic, often focused on a strong sense of melody - almost an obsession - and a relatively simple structure. Each piece of music starts from nightly piano improvisations - the most relevant fragments become the seed of a new track.

Being as young as 5 years old, she started to play the piano. She inherited her passion for music from her father, who also taught her. Over time she found her own style through composition, which became more of a need than a hobby. Her work as a therapist has become her prime source of inspiration. Through her music she found a way of expressing emotions and awakening them in others, which is another beautiful and creative way of doing therapy.

Axel Wettebrand is a Swedish pianist and composer. His musical journey began at the age of 6, studying classical piano through the Suzuki method. Later on, developing a curiosity for jazz music, he moved to Stockholm for further studies within jazz piano. After years of working with various artists and projects, Axel started composing neo-classical piano music, combining both his classical side and jazz. ”The ambition with my music is for the listener to find themselves in the music and for the melody to connect with the listener.” - I am glad you found my music and I hope it can give you a moment of rest and peace during your day.

Hailing from Manchester, UK, composer and pianist Barry Hudson-Taylor focuses predominantly on solo piano compositions and music for film and television. He received formal piano training from a young age and was also part of the Blackburn Cathedral Music School for over 12 years before leaving to obtain his bachelors degree in Music Production from Leeds Conservatoire in 2012. It was there where he honed his craft and explored different musical avenues.He has composed the original score for several independent films, as well as having music placed on many different television networks and advertisements around the world. The score for his first feature length film “Are We Monsters” (Bubble Lightning) is due to be released in 2022.Whilst his compositions are rarely more than one man and his piano, his overall versatility as a composer is evident in his music, blending his formal training and passion for electronic music into cinematic arrangements and atmospheres.