Jennifer Haines - Solo Piano

Raising Money for Alzheimer's Research

2009-04-09T08:11:00.004-04:00

I'm privileged to announce that two of my songs have been included in a compilation solo piano album entitled, "Relaxing Piano Artists for Alzheimer's Research". All proceeds from this album go to to support The Alzheimer's Association and the Alzheimer's Foundation. The album, which includes 40 songs from 20 different artists, is available for sale at iTunes for $9.99.

What's new

2009-02-20T14:59:00.004-05:00

To be honest, not a whole lot the past few months... I did celebrate my 10th wedding anniversary (yikes I must be getting old!) in January and my 29th birthday (well, maybe not that old) in February. I took some time away from the piano for a while to clear my head, but recently I've been getting the itch to start composing again. I'm now working hard on some new pieces and would really like to get a new album together by the end of this year. That's the plan anyway....

New CD Release

2008-09-23T12:04:00.005-04:00

Today's the day! My latest CD, "Blessed Assurance: Solo Piano Hymns", is now available for sale. To order your copy please visit my website:
usfourmusic.com
If you would rather mail order your CDs please visit:
usfourmusic.com/mail_order.html
Print out the page and then fill it in neatly and send with your form of payment.
For those of you who play the piano, be sure to also check out the four new sheet music selections that are available for sale. We have "O The Deep, Deep Love of Jesus", "It Is Well With My Soul", "All Creatures Of Our God And King", and "Blessed Assurance" for $3.50 each, or you can purchase sheet music package 7 for $11.50 which contains all four of these new titles. Here is a quick link to the sheet music page:
usfourmusic.com/music2.html
I hope you enjoy the new CD!

New CD Coming soon!

2008-09-13T11:02:00.001-04:00

Mark your calendars.. September 23rd is the official release date for my new CD, "Blessed Assurance: Solo Piano". I'm so excited to be able to share this music and I've decided to give everyone a preview by uploading two songs from the album to my myspace page. Hope you enjoy them!

Bridgefest 08'

2008-07-31T09:00:00.000-04:00

My family and I spent last weekend at bridgefest in New Jersy and just had an awesome time. There was great music by Phil Wickham and we enjoyed wandering around Ocean Grove. It's a pretty cool little beach town. Making memories!!

July 4th Fun!

2008-07-05T10:26:00.004-04:00

What a fun 4th of July! Yesterday my girls took part in the "SS Class Centennial Anniversary Race" with their newly restored SS 150. There were three races and the girls came in 11th place over all! It was a lot of fun to watch and we all had a great time.

New Sheet Music

2008-06-18T16:21:00.005-04:00

There is a new sheet music selection available for sale at my website! The song is "Moonlit Echo" from my Beautiful Solitude album. The album is out of print, but is still available for download at cdbaby.com for only $5.00.

To purchase your copy of the new sheet music please visit: usfourmusic.com

What a Storm!

2008-06-11T16:30:00.005-04:00

On Sunday we had the worst storm that I have ever been through! It only lasted about twenty minutes, but the rain was coming down so hard that we couldn't see out of our windows. When it finally stopped, this is what we saw in our backyard:

Cool Amazon Widget

2008-06-05T09:43:00.010-04:00

To add this widget, that includes song clips for 48 of my songs, to your blog or MySpace page copy the code from here and paste it to your site!

My Flowers

2008-05-18T10:05:00.006-04:00

...are starting to bloom!

So far I have some Azaleas:

Some Siberian Wallflower:

And a little bit of Flax (one of my favorites):

All images are copyright 2008 Jennifer Haines

Puppies!!

2008-05-12T15:44:00.015-04:00

On Friday I helped my friend Erica by taking some photos of her 11 day old labradoodle puppies. These puppies are so adorable! Take a look...

Now that you've seen the pictures (aren't they cute?!) you are probably wishing you could take one home with you, right? Well you can, because these sweet puppies are for sale! If you are interested in purchasing one please contact Mark or Erica.

Their phone number is: (631) 729-6336

Or you can e-mail them.

Here is some information about the puppies:

"F1b Labradoodle puppies for sale!!

CKC registered, Current Vaccinations, Vet Examination, Health Certificate, Health Guarantee, and Puppy Packet (including photo album, info on breed and care of puppy, bag of dog food, health records, etc).

The puppies come from a very loving and well cared for environment. They are born and raised in our home and loved and kissed daily. We are a family of 5, my husband and I and our 3 dog children. We own the mother and father and a adorable little Yorkie. The mother (Stella) and father (Luke) both have wonderful temperaments and were easily trained. They are great family dogs and wonderful with children. They shed very little to not at all. We have pictures of past puppies and of parents. Also, references Available!!! Please e-mail or call if interested!!!

10 puppies born!! 3 cream colored females,7 males,..4 cream and 3 black.
$900 each.
Available around June 27, 2008 !!!

If you want, you can view photos of Luke and Stella and/or past puppies by visiting Puppyfind.com."

All images are copyright 2008 Jennifer Haines

Parody of elevator video on Letterman

2008-04-26T10:12:00.001-04:00

Mystery Solved

2008-04-22T15:10:00.002-04:00

So the mystery of how the New Yorker/ABC got my music has been solved. A third party organization -whose methods I was not fully aware of (my own fault) when I signed on with them- licensed my music to the New Yorker and didn't require them to credit me.. sucks for me, but hey I got a little exposure out of the deal!

UPDATE: The New Yorker has given me full credit for my song, both at their own website and their youtube page!

Did you happen to catch "Good Morning America" yesterday?

2008-04-22T07:06:00.003-04:00

If you did, you probably heard snippets of my song, "The Storm Begins", while Diane Sawyer played video footage of the man who was stuck in the elevator for 41 hours. I'm not sure who made the original video, but whoever did it used my music! I'm not sure what to make of this yet. On the one hand, LOTS of people have now heard my song, on the other, NO ONE knows I wrote it!! So if you guys wouldn't mind, please help me by spreading the word that the song on the video (which is currently playing in it's entirety at newyorker.com) was written by me? Here is the full length video in case anyone is interested..

New Interview

2008-03-15T10:15:00.003-04:00

I just finished an interview with Kathy Parsons of MainlyPiano.com. It was a lot of fun to do and I hope you enjoy it.

Click Here to read it.

Turning 28...

2008-02-04T09:10:00.000-05:00

Happy birthday to me! That's right, I turned 28 on Sunday. My sweet girls got me some beautiful roses and some candy. Then Peter took us out to lunch at my favorite mexican food place. When we got home, I was in the mood for a classic film, so we watched "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre". It was a great day!

Win a Free Autographed CD at NAMM 08!!

2008-01-03T10:58:00.000-05:00

If you are planning to go to NAMM this year please be sure to stop by the Galileo Music Exhibit and enter to win an autographed copy of one of my CDs! Here is a press release about the exhibit...

"Whisperings: Solo Piano Radio" at the 2008 Winter NAMM Show

Seven Whisperings Pianists to Appear at Galileo Music Exhibit 5900

ANAHEIM, CA: On Saturday, January 19th, featured pianists as heard on top rated online radio broadcast "Whisperings: Solo Piano Radio" will appear at the 2008 Winter NAMM Show Galileo Music Exhibit 5900 between 3-4PM. Whisperings is an Internet radio broadcast (streaming on iTunes, Live365.com, TIVO, Windows Media Tuner and SoloPianoRadio.com) featuring solo piano music exclusively. It is the Internet's top Solo Piano Radio Broadcast and the number one program on Live365.com, the Internet's largest hosted radio network. "Whisperings: Solo Piano Radio" is heard by well over a half-million listeners monthly, and generates two million listening hours each month. Scheduled artists to appear at the Galileo Music Exhibit 5900 are David Nevue, Joe Yamada, Louis Landon, Joe Bongiorno, Catherine Marie Charlton, Michele McLaughlin, and Gary Girouard - to sign autographs and give away autographed solo piano CDs. Visit SoloPianoRadio.com for more information.

About the NAMM Show - The NAMM Show is the largest music products trade show in United States. Held every January in Anaheim, California, USA the show brings together all facets of the music products industry to reveal new musical instruments/products and ideas to help music products retailers and manufacturers become more successful. More than 80,000 NAMM Members and guests attended the January 2007 show. The NAMM Show is open to NAMM members and their guests (closed to the general public).

New Video "Carol Of The Bells"

2007-12-01T15:40:00.001-05:00

"Live" from my living room...

Christmas Decorating

2007-11-25T20:51:00.000-05:00

Today we set up our Christmas tree. This is something that gets more fun every year. After we finished we took some photos for the family album and some of them were so funny that I thought I'd share...

What can I say... my husband's goofy :)

Here we are looking more "normal":

Hope everyone else had as much fun decorating as we did!

SL:MIMA update...

2007-11-08T13:23:00.000-05:00

The winners of the "Swan Lake: Moving Image & Music Awards" have been posted and one of the videos featuring my music just won first place in the category of animation! The video is entitled "The Value of Love" and was created by Christian Hein. It's a great video and if you haven't seen it yet, please visit newagepiano.net and check it out.
Congratulations Christian on a really awesome job!

Here is a little news clip about the show...

SL:MIMA 2007 AWARD GALA
November 7, 2007

Over one hundred viewers from five nations , three categories and six smiling winners - that is in brief what the successfull award show of the Swan Lake: Moving Image & Music Award was about on the 7. November.

While doors went open at 7.30 pm in the Studio B of the University of Applied Sciences Mittweida there had already been the first audience wanting to get hold of one of the scarce seats inside of the hall. The original dinner gala with buffet quickly got a new motto: there is still enough space to put another chair in it. But this was only one aspect getting the viewers from different countries (e.g. Finland, Hungary, Poland and UK) closer together, not only in the literal way. The visual interpretation of new age piano tracks by artists from all over the world provided topics of conversation as well as the great two-man-band X-Jazz that featured a terrific combination of piano and e-guitar.

The felicitous atmosphere got his climax with the public voting. The winner of the audience award was determined by an "applausometer", an ambient multimedia system developed by students of the interactive media track at the University of Applied Sciences in Mittweida.

The great winner of the evening was Christian Hein who could take home the first price in the category animation as well as the public price.

Vote for your favorite SL: MIMA video

2007-10-12T08:28:00.001-04:00

Public SL:MIMA voting is now open. Choose your favorite video clip online. The videos that use my music are "Creativity" and "The Value of Love"...

Fall Fun...

2007-10-10T21:03:00.001-04:00

Monday, the girls and I went to a local farm for pumpkin picking and pony riding. It was a whole lot of fun!

Naomi turns 8!

2007-09-26T13:55:00.000-04:00

Pictures from Naomi's birthday party.

New Review for "Thoughts and Dreams"

2007-09-21T18:29:00.000-04:00

"Seven short years ago Jennifer Haines began composing. For an aspiring musician waiting to see the fruit of her labors this can add up to a lifetime. I can tell you it was worth the wait. I had the pleasure of reviewing Christmas Magic, Jennifer’s holiday album, and the warmth and tenderness she exhibited on that album show up everywhere on this one. All the pieces of Thought & Dreams are solo piano works. Occasionally, Jennifer hit a series of notes that are reminiscent of The Lanz Style of Music. I say this in a complimentary fashion. Her overall style is light, sparkling and intricate. Such is the stuff that dreams are made of.

Dark clouds roll on the horizon and a briskened wind sweeps the leaves from the paths. The trees bow and sway as the music fills you with a sense of urgency and trepidation. The opening track The Storm Begins has a lot of movement in the notes. Raindrops the size of pennies begins to fall with a tap-tappet-ta sound on the top of your umbrella. Instinctively, you head for home and safety.

There is a pair of songs called Ocean - Atlantic and Pacific that are quite remarkable and you can hear countless stories in the tunes. Jennifer does an excellent job of turning the past into music. You can hear about the Atlantic, a corridor between America and Europe that is dark green, violent and full of history and myth. It is the rough carpet that was crossed by explorers and armadas by the score and immigrants by the millions with the idea of discovery and hope fresh on the crest of every wave. The Pacific is clear blue, vast and a bottomless bowl to the hungry of several continents. It is a living breathing entity filled with unfathomable trenches and sleeping volcanoes. It is Mother Nature’s ongoing project.

Desert Beautiful is a favorite. It is the sound of hidden beauty and hope. For some the desert is a dry, ugly place with miles and miles of nothingness. To the practiced eye it is place of cactus colonies with outstretched arms, rainbow rock formations that delight the eye and life small and large that thrives despite the unfavorable odds. The sky may well be the color of God’s eyes.

There is something exciting about having a feeling and rushing to the door on a cold winter’s night and getting a surprise. The porch light makes sparkling whites jewels out of the millions of snowflakes that come tumbling silently in the soft illumination. The music you should be listening to is Jennifer’s tune Flurries. By morning Nature will have donned her spotless white mantel to the delight of all.

Finally almost at day’s end is Twilight. The bright orange-red ball of light falls from sight as the earth turns over for the night. The sun gives the earth a final goodnight kiss and the sky blushes with a rosy glow. It is an instance where time slows and hands and hearts touch with emotion. Jennifer’s passionate piano offers a sweet, but reluctant goodnight as well. This is another of my favorite tunes.

Jennifer Haines began her musical career at the age of three. Singing her own songs for self-amusement. She lost the passion briefly, but began again in earnest at sixteen and taught herself to play piano. It is apparent that she had an apt teacher. She began composing in 1999 and has seven albums to her credit. Artist, composer, guitar player and soccer mom. We can hear her faith and passion in her music, but where does she get the energy?"
RJ Lannan
New Age Reporter

SL:MIMA

2007-09-20T11:50:00.000-04:00

I just found out that two of my songs from the "Beautiful Solitude" CD have been used for videos by students participating in the Swan Lake Moving Image and Music Award's. Both videos are among the 15 videos that have been selected for the final judging round!

The videos have been posted on NewAgePiano.net if you want to take a look. They are really cool!

The Storm Begins - Live From My Living Room!

2007-09-18T17:48:00.001-04:00

2007-09-14T14:50:00.000-04:00

Hi Everyone!

I've got big news today...

All of the sheet music from the "Thoughts and Dreams" CD AND the "Christmas Magic" CD is done and available for sale at my website. It was hard work, but it is nice to have accomplished this as it has been a goal of mine for some time.

The new pieces are:

From Thoughts and Dreams

1. The Ocean: Atlantic
2. Miles Apart
3. Trooper
4. Aspen
5. Desert Beautiful
6. Dreamy Draw
7. Morning
8. Twilight

From Christmas Magic

1. Cantique De Noël
2. God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen
3. Still, Still, Still
4. The Coventry Carol
5. The First Nowell
6. Angels We Have Heard On High
7. Stille Nacht
8. What Child is This
9. Three Kings of Orient
10. Good King Wenceslas

In addition to individual sheet music purchases, I am also making several discount packages and collections available.

The "Thoughts and Dreams" and "Christmas Magic" collections are $24.50 and in each collection you get every song from the CD and a neat title page to help keep it all organized. The Complete Collection is the "whole enchilada", so to speak, and includes every piece of my sheet music that is currently available. The Complete Collection is $50.00 and saves you over 50% off the individual sheet music prices.

The discount packages consist of 4 songs each and are arranged by mood. They are $11.50 each.

If you'd like a preview of the sheet music, I'm making two selections available as free downloads. They are "Dreamy Draw" and "What Child is This".

All sheet music is available by visiting:

http://www.usfourmusic.com/music2.html

Take care!

I Got Art!

2007-08-30T14:49:00.000-04:00

I just received a beautiful clay board etching from a fan in Florida. It's so cool that I had to share...

New Photos

2007-08-26T10:41:00.000-04:00

I added a nifty little photo gallery to my website. Check it out if you get a chance

PHOTOS

Sheet Music

2007-08-13T08:06:00.001-04:00

Hello All,

I've just uploaded 6 new sheet music selections to the website and I wanted to let everyone know.

The new pieces are:

From Thoughts and Dreams

1. The Storm Begins
2. Pacific
3. Wildflower
4. Flurries

From Christmas Magic

1. Un Flambeau, Jeannette, Isabelle
2. Noel Nouvelet/Veni, Veni, Emanuel

To purchase .pdf files of the music please visit:

http://www.usfourmusic.com/music2.html

I'm still working on more sheet music and hope to do another big upload in a few weeks. I'll keep you posted...

The Lake Trip

2007-08-09T15:58:00.000-04:00

O.k., so we didn't -just- get back from the lake. We were there July 22-28. We go every year to visit Peter's brother Will and his family. We have fun tubing, boating, swimming, relaxing and, this year, watching lots of Star Wars! It was a blast and I've been meaning to put a few pictures up, so here they are (I do digital scrapbooking so I thought I'd add layouts - more photos at once).

Click on the layout for a better view:

Pre- Release Material Added To My Podcast

2007-07-21T09:10:00.000-04:00

I've added my arrangement of the song "O The Deep, Deep Love of Jesus" to my podcast. Let me know what you think. This will be for my upcoming solo piano hymns album.

New Age Reporter "Top Ten"

2007-07-14T16:15:00.000-04:00

"Thoughts and Dreams" is #10 on the New Age radio charts!!! I'm very excited.

My Wildflowers

2007-07-12T12:18:00.001-04:00

I was out walking today and I took a photo of my wildflowers to share with you guys. If you own the Thoughts and Dreams CD you know that my wildflowers are my favorites! So here they are...

New Review

2007-07-10T20:09:00.000-04:00

Hi All!
I just got a review of "Thoughts and Dreams" from Kathy Parsons of Solo Piano Publications.
Kathy writes:

"Pianist/composer Jennifer Haines’ new release, “Thoughts and Dreams,” has the distinction of being the first album I’ve reviewed from my new Oregon Coast home. Haines’ gentle musical optimism is the perfect accompaniment to watching the tiny birds I can’t yet identify darting from tree to tree in the summer coastal wind, the sky a bright blue backdrop with wisps of fog floating by. Haines’ previous release, “Christmas Magic,” is a delightful collection of her arrangements of favorite Christmas songs, but “Thoughts and Dreams,” is all original material, right down to the charming watercolor cover artwork. The music of “Thoughts and Dreams” is warm and inviting without being saccharine or superficial, and while a consistent mood is sustained throughout the album, the thirteen pieces are distinctive and individual. In the liner notes, Haines briefly explains the inspiration for the music, allowing us a glimpse of her private and personal world.

The opening track, “The Storm Begins,” reminds me a bit of Robin Spielberg, one of my very favorite composers. The contrasting of the high treble and deep bass notes is always effective, perhaps describing the bright first raindrops and dark, forbidding clouds. This is not a ferocious storm, but it has energy, and the piece is wonderfully refreshing. The title track is light and playful, referring to the artist’s ability to escape to her imagination in otherwise boring situations. “Pacific” recalls a favorite childhood memory of a day at the ocean with her family and friend, and conveys the ceaseless rhythmic flow of the waves and their constantly-changing energy - beautiful! “Miles Apart” is a wistful musical love letter to parents who live far away, full of longing and deep emotion. “Desert Beautiful” depicts the richness of the desert, contrasting the delicate cactus flowers with the solid, awesome rock formations. “Wildflower” is a simple, freeform little piece that describes the varied colors and forms of wildflowers, as well as their gentle innocence as they sway in the breeze. “Flurries” is my favorite track. Energetic and dancing like the first snowflakes of winter, the piece has a free-flowing sense of excitement that is infectious and joyous. “Morning” promises a fresh start with the beginning of each new day. “Twilight” is an enchanting love song, telling the story of a romantic marriage proposal on the very spot where the happy couple met.

“Thoughts and Dreams” is a delight from start to finish, and should boost Jennifer Haines into the forefront of contemporary pianist/composers. While not overly complex structurally or harmonically, the music comes from the heart and brings a gentle sense of peace and well-being. It is available from usfourmusic.com and cdbaby.com. Highly recommended!"

Kathy Parsons
Solo Piano Publications

iTunes

2007-07-09T16:53:00.000-04:00

"Thoughts and Dreams" has arrived at iTunes! If you'd like to purchase downloads they are available here

Also, I've been busily working on my next CD. I'm not going to say much about it yet, but I will tell you that it is going to be a solo piano Hymn CD. So be looking forward to that in the near future!

I'm starting a podcast as well. Be sure to check it out because I will be adding prerelease material soon. The podcast can be found here

Introduction

2007-07-09T15:08:00.000-04:00

Hi All!

Well, I've decided to give this blog thing a spin. Seems like fun! For those of you who aren't familiar with me, my name is Jennifer Haines and I compose solo piano music.

This blog will be mainly about what I'm up to musically (new CD projects, sheet music etc.), but I plan on adding family stuff from time to time as well.

Stay tuned...

-Jennifer