Even in today’s ever-burgeoning music industry, it is uncommon to find a serious composer with real pop music credentials or a pop musician with academic awards and published concert music. Composer Louis Anthony deLise is such a unique individual. He has arranged and conducted for R & B songstress, Patti LaBelle and last year was awarded a highly prestigious Fellowship from the New Jersey Council on the Arts. Now, composer deLise is releasing his sixth album of original compositions, Iridescence.
The album features Grammy®- winner, oboist and composer, Nancy Rumbel, along with cellist Vivian Barton Dozor, of the Opera Philadelphia Orchestra, John McMurtery, flutist with the Las Vagas Philharmonic, and Celtic World Orchestra guitarist, Bruce McFarland. The album includes nine new compositions, with one, the title track, Iridescence, cowritten with Nancy Rumbel.
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While most critics classify deLise’s music as “New Age” or “neoclassical,” deLise prefers, “post-genre,” as his recordings usually include elements of pop, classical, New Age, and West Coast cool jazz of the 1960s. “I’m just as likely to include an improvised piano solo as I am to adhere to the strict rules of Baroque voice leading,” deLise says.
Born in Philadelphia and reared in rural Bucks County Pennsylvania, deLise earned a doctorate in composition, taught at several colleges, and worked as a support musician in orchestras accompanying Lou Rawls, Diana Ross, Tom Jones, George Shearing, Henry Mancini, Dave Brubeck, and Luciano Pavarotti. deLise has arranged and or produced on recordings for Miss LaBelle, William DeVaughn, the band, Halestorm, and pianists, Robin Spielberg, and Peter Nero.
Bjørn Tore Fasmer in the New Age Music Guide says, “Iridescence will for sure become a modern classic.”
Iridescence is now playing on New Age Stars Radio!
For more information and music samples, visit louisanthonydelise.com.
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