This album - which features Grammy®-nominated pianist Aron Kallay - presents four recent keyboard pieces by seminal West Coast composer Daniel Lentz: two works for solo piano, and two works for multiple pianos (all performed by Kallay). This technically challenging piano music is wildly rambling, wildly kaleidoscopic, and ravishingly beautiful. Post-modern, most-minimalist.
"In the Sea of Ionia" is a wildly spinning, charismatically eclectic collection of often gorgeous, often bustling works for solo and multiple pianos by quintessential California composer Lentz, who freely explores and skews and puts his unique spin on two centuries of classical piano music. All the piano parts on this recording?from solo to seven pianos (via overdubbing)?are performed by Grammy-nominated new-music pianist Aron Kallay.