Album Notes

Refreshing and lyrical, Gardens In The Snow is an elegant fusion of classical, jazz and ambient styles, perfect for quiet times, massage and healing, spa, pilates, dinner music, home and office ambience, lazy afternoons.

In contrast to her other albums, this acoustic recording showcases Vicki's versatility with the clarity of a single grand piano.

It was inspired by the bright colors and freshness of a garden after a light snow fall.

The music is alive and rhythmic, pensive and flowing with beautiful melodies, evocative moods and undulating rhythms.

A friend, who is also a massage therapist, gave Gardens In The Snow to an elderly friend who is almost deaf. He claims it is the only music he can actually hear!

Vicki Larnach is an Australian composer, music producer and teacher working mostly as a solo artist, composing, recording and producing her own works using piano and keyboards.

Natural therapists, fitness instructors, families and schools praise her music for its immediate positive effects.

Vicki's music was recently featured in Family Circle Magazine, as a cover mount CD, with over 50,000 copies circulated in Australia and New Zealand.

Her music is used as backing tracks in guided meditations, in short films, websites, corporate DVDs and as orchestration in a spoken book, which Vicki also narrated, entitled 'Why Women Weep" by Marie Gai Oberlander.

She studied classical piano with Edith Woods, and jazz with Roger Frampton, Julie Spithill and Mike Bukovsky at the NSW Conservatorium of Music, Sydney, Australia.

She has performed and recorded music from rock to salsa, jazz to ambient, pantomime to country, classical and children's music in both Australia and overseas.
In Venezuela, she played keyboards for actress/singer Maria Conchita Alonso, in concerts, tours and TV appearances..

She recorded piano and keyboards on Giordano Di Marzo"s "Negocios" album, and toured with bands Tinajas and Celestial.

Vicki was musical director of a production of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" in Caracas and taught music in schools and at the Conservatorium of Music for the Philharmonic Orchestra, Caracas.

Primary (elementary) school, piano and early childhood music teacher, Vicki was on the advisory panel for the Australian ABC's SING '93 (a CD of songs and book that goes out to most schools in Australia) and her children's songs "Wear A Hat", "Solar" and "Little String Bag" appear in several of the ABC's SING Productions.

Please contact me if you need any new project music. www.vicki.com.au