Kawika Heftel
This young Utah pianist and composer brings conventions of classical, New Age, and pop into a highly listenable hybrid. While Heftel's crisp phrasing gives awa
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Solace Solace
Solace is the title song of my first album. It's first song I wrote that had deeply personal meaning. It helped me get through the pain of my parent's divorce and reaffirms that there is hope in life, even when all seems bleak.
4:45 A.M. 4:45 A.M.
This song describes what it feels like to be awake at 4:45 A.M. I'm not sure whether it describes staying up til 4:45 or getting up at 4:45, but either way it's a slightly delirious time to be awake.
First Song First Song
This is the first song I wrote. It has the feel of looking at the world with innocent, unbiased eyes.
Fantasy Impromptu Fantasy Impromptu
A happy, enthusiastic song with a Chopin-style title that has no bearing on the song's style. It brings to mind a carefree day with friends, the exhilaration of doing something you love, and the joy of having a day off.
Invention no. 1 in D Minor Invention no. 1 in D Minor
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Kawika heftel is a classically-trained musician focusing on New Age piano. He lived approximately half his life in the tropical state of Hawaii, where he started studying the piano. He first started writing music in high school after moving to Provo, Utah, where he currently resides. His debut album, Solace, was released in 2001 and provided most of the funding for an LDS mission to the Baltic States of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia from 2001-2003. Kawika is a student of Brigham Young University studying Media Music and Computer Science and is currently working on a econd CD, to be released in the Provo area. awika has also dabbled in other areas of songwriting and performance, including a current project writing music to promote a screenplay for the movie "Exiled" by Helene Holt and starting an A Cappella group in February 2005 under the name Coalescence. He is the group's main arranger and composer.
Currently Kawika's main performance venue is Sweet's Island Place in Provo, and both he and Coalescence have planned performances in Las Vegas in the summer of 2005.
Kawika's music conveys a personal landscape of emotion, filled with passion, longing, hope, and triumph. He strives to convey his emotion through his music, in the hope that others may benefit from it as he has.
"Pianist and composer Kawika Heftel's debut album shows a depth and maturity beyond what you might expect of a 19-year-old, incorporating pieces he's written mostly in a light classical vein, with touches of soft jazz and folk and other genres... His compositions are, for the most part, soft and moody, living up to the CD's title.
And he plays with both skill and passion, conveying the emotion of his work."
-Carma Wadley
Deseret News senior writerHave you performed in front of an audience?Yes, I play live at anyplace I can in Provo, when I have time away from being a full-time student. My main performance venue is in Provo, Utah.
Your musical influences
Jon Schmidt, David Tolk, Billy Joel. I also like Howie Day, Missy Higgins, John Mayer, etc.Contact
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Love your music, you need to use Multi-band compresion and some mastering to your music to make it more professionial sounding....holla
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