Sonni Quick

Shippensburg

My music is all piano improvisations expressing emotions. It is music telling stories without the words. When I feel the desire to express my emotions I sit at the piano and press the record button. I prefer playing in minor flat keys. They feel and sound different to me. I don't think about what I'm going to play. I don't plan a chord sequence. I just play and record straight through until it's done. I then lay 1 - 4 tracks on top of each other mentally mixing the sounds to each other. I don't know how to mix sounds electronically or fix mistakes. It's all done by ear, sometimes in the dark, my favorite way to play. I've been composing and performing most of my life. At this point in my own history I started playing the piano 60 years ago and teaching and playing in piano bars for 48 of them, starting in college. The music I play now is beyond what my capabilities were back then. But my ability to teach surpasses most teachers who can only teach what they were taught. I was ten when I decided I would teach piano. My desire is to tell my stories - the music that comes out with no planning or crafting. I play what I feel, close my eyes and my hands play those thoughts. This is what I leave of me to my generations to come who wonder where their desire to make music comes from. My mother also played. I learned recently that my grandmother and great grandmother were both accomplished pianists when they were young. They had to stop and become housewives. No one told me. I found a diary. Now I have great-grandchildren. They will know who I am through my music. When I am gone my music will still be here. What a wonderful thought!

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