WATCH: Composing and Creativity

James Wilding talks about his composition process on the January video of Urban Troubadour's Online Roving Adventures
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Recent Performance

​London, England
Half Imagined for solo piano written for Piano Week International Festival Online Edition, 13-19 December 2020

Next Up

Akron, Ohio
Two Pieces for orchestra written for Akron Youth Symphony. Premier TBA
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New Videos

New Album PICTURES Reviewed in clevelandclassical.com

"In Pictures, the debut album from composer and pianist James Wilding, every piece was inspired by something outside the world of music, from the concrete (a particular sculpture) to the abstract (a vision of the end of the world)... perhaps the biggest draw of listening to Pictures is the unique glimpse it gives into one artist’s process of composition" - Jarrett Hoffman

Album Launch

Impressions from the album launch at Steinway Piano Galley on 4 April 2019
Photography by Missy Iler

Recording the Album

Video from the studio in Mount Vernon, New York
​Drops of Memory occur predictably, while the harmony changes gradually and unpredictably, forming a texture of individual notes dancing over a canvas of ever expanding and contracting harmonic progressions.
Inspired by a Zimbabwean stone sculpture of a maternal spirit, Nehanda Remembered uses quartal chords to represent the solid stone and the nurturing mother.

Preparing for the Project

The composer talks about the process of practicing his own music

Kaupo Kikkas Photography

Album cover artwork chosen from this gallery of shots by award-winning Estonian photographer Kaupo Kikkas