#1 Billboard Charting New Age Solo Pianist Matthew Mayer performs live solo piano versions of God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen and What Child is this at the beautiful St. Vincent De Paul Church in Omaha, Nebraska.
Omaha, Nebraska resident and solo piano musician, Matthew Mayer, is a #1 Billboard Charting New Age Recording Artist.
Mayer’s piano and performance career spans from the beginning of doing one-man shows in the waiting room of a chiropractic clinic in Canistota, SD (town of 700 where Mayer grew up), to sharing the stage with Grammy Nominated and Well Known Artists from around the world.
Matthew Mayer started playing piano at the age of 12. He quickly took to composition. Mayer would eventually go on to self publish his very first solo piano album “Crossing the Bridge” in the spring of 1999…at the age of 20.
Twenty years later, he has released 12 solo piano albums, 10 piano singles, and has has performed around the United States. He most recently did a tour in Croatia with one of Croatia’s most well known piano artists, Matej Mestrovic.
His latest album “Beautiful You” debuted #1 on The Billboard New Age Chart, and lasted 2 Weeks on the Top 10. It also received the Whisperings Solo Piano Album of the Year Award (in Seattle, Washington), along with hitting #1 on United Kingdom's One World Music Radio Chart. It also received an Official Parents' Choice Gold Award Honor. This historic album touches on the vulnerability of being human combined with the importance of loving yourself, of all ages, for who you are.
Notable quotes from this release and Mayer’s music include:
“What I love most about Matthew Mayer’s Music is that it, at once, stirs up emotions, while offering Peace. I feel an ache when I heart it.”
- Faith Salie - CBS Sunday Morning & NPR’s Wait Wait, Don’t Tell Me
"A profound testament to beauty, radiance, and the haunting power of art.”
- Kabir Sehgal, New York Times/Wall Street Journal Best Selling Author, and Grammy Award Winning Producer
“Get ready to be transported to the most uplifting place on earth. Every song on Matthew Mayer’s new album BEAUTIFUL YOU lives up to that title…each is beautiful in its own unique way”
-Ryan Patterson, Supervising Producer, Access Hollywood, NBC Universal
“Beautiful you is another fantastic journey through a wide diapason of emotions. Matthew Mayer's outstanding technique and refined feeling for pacing and expression is what makes his music stories so credible and deep.”
- IVA Matic, Music Editor / Journalist at HRT Hrvatska radiotelevizija (Voice of Croatia)
“Matthew Mayer's Beautiful You is soothing and melodic for your soul. I love it!”
- Marala Scott, Award-Winning Author & 2009 Oprah Ambassador of Hope
“Mayer's piano music always has a deeper meaning, and the message of this album expressed through solo piano is as important as ever in these times…”
- Joe Siyam, Supervising Producer - Entertainment Tonight, CBS
Among his many well known compositions, his original piano song Beyond was ranked by Spain’s Reviews New Age Company as one of the Top 50 Piano Songs written of All Time. The same song was noticed by The International Acoustic Music Awards, recognizing it as a Top 10 Instrumental Composition of that year’s field.
Matthew Mayer has not only released his own solo piano music, but has also made an impact on the international community of solo piano artists.
In Feb of 2000, he founded the website www.solopiano.com. What started out as a website to feature his own album, is now a site featuring over 350 Artists from around the world, and offers a free hosting platform for any solo piano artist to help get their music noticed.
In 2015 he also created his first podcast episode from his Podcast titled “Going Solo” which he interviews artists, including Grammy Nominated musicians, and people chasing their creative dreams.
In 2017, Mayer was chosen as a Jury member for Italy’s Blue Spiral Records for its first ever Minimal Piano Competition, which gave piano players from around the world the opportunity for their own composition to be a part of a compilation project produced and distributed by Blue Spiral Records.
Matthew is also a contributor and guest writer on the popular CD Baby DIY Musician Blog, specializing on being an independent artist in the music industry today. He also spoke at the Official CD Baby conference (world’s largest independent distributor and support of independent musicians) in August of 2019, with the message of how to continue to be an independent musician even if you also have to work a ‘day job.’
More information on Matthew can be found at www.matthewmayer.com or follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/mayersolopiano or Facebook at facebook.com/mayersolopiano or instagram at instagram.com/mayersolopiano.
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