| About ARIA Music | Dezi is a nontraditional musician, composer who creates music from a deep place of spirit and sound. Trained in classical piano from age seven at Carnegie Hall, and participating in piano competitions until age nineteen, it wasn't until she gave up her training that she was able to sit at the keyboard and create her own music improvisationally. Compositions emerged complete. Some of Dezi's first pieces were played on local radio station KKUP, and her numerous collaborations with Calder Lowe included a 12-piece project: The Ants That Led Her To The Jewels, performed at the Phoenix Jazz Club. She also contributed a soundtrack for a Georgia B. Travis Center video and has performed at the New Age Renaissance Fair, Whole Life Expo and for Earth Day. In October of 2009, the San Jose Dance Company featured her piece "Heart Full of Grace" as part of a world premiere. On September 11, 2011, Dezi premiered her "Requiem for 9-11" at the Divine Science Community Center in Willow Glen, California. The piece included keyboard orchestration, spoken word, operatic voice, Taiko drumming and Butoh dance. 'After the Storm," which was part of the Requiem, was also featured as a finale piece in a May 2012 Butoh performance at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center: "Tsunami of Light." Dezi is also an award winning writer, holistic health educator and practitioner and is committed to creating healing. Her belief is that heaven is not elsewhere, and that our purpose is to create it for each other - here and now. |
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