About the Artist

I started playing the piano at about age 8, thanks to my mother's encouragement. She had been classically trained herself, and signed me up with her childhood music teacher. It was all about classical music, and, even though I taught myself a little Bach, it was not really for me.

I quit music lessons after 3 years, but continued playing on my own - TV themes, the Carpenters, "Raindrops", all things soft and sweet, but nothing original. At church, I played the piano, electric organ, melodica and accordion, all by ear. I very rarely played in a group, and performing in public has never really driven me.

But I could sit at the piano and improvise for hours - nothing really coherent, but exercising my musical imagination. My cousin Marie, herself classically trained, noticed this and, perhaps out of annoyance at this lack of coherence, suggested I put together something "sensible". By now, I was a university graduate, age 23. I took my first baby steps and it worked - I could actually make my own music!

Music took a back seat to my pursuit of a career as an actuary; but in 1995, after that mission was successfully accomplished, I acquired a synthesizer. The idea was simple: if I could have several instruments at my fingertips, the possibilities were endless. Plus, it was far cheaper than a good grand piano

Given my heritage as a piano player, the PC88mx was the perfect choice - 88 keys, weighted-action. I attached this to a Cakewalk sequencer, and went to work recording compositions dating back to 1979, plus new ones.

In 1999, I made my first CD, "Speaks For Itself", consisting of 8 songs. (I call them "songs", although "pieces" is probably more appropriate.) I promised myself that when I had created 10 new ones, I would make my second CD.

Welcome to my second CD, "LIGHT & TIME", an eclectic collection of 10 songs. You are sure to fall in love with at least one of them.:-)

Thank you for your support.

John Robinson