A
native of California, Liz began her musical training as a young child,
studied classical piano while growing up in Southern
California, mastering Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 11 by the age of 11.
When her family moved to Germany during her teens, she added languages,
philosophy, and poetry to her studies. On her return to the United States, she
continued her piano studies at the Juilliard School of Music and enrolled at
Hunter College. But after hearing the jazz pianist Bill Evans one night at the
Bottom Line in New York City, she decided to learn jazz piano and became a
student of Sanford Gold, whom Evans recommended. Later, after moving back to
Southern California, she studied at the Dick Grove Music Workshops in Studio
City. During her studies, she took a job playing piano in a restaurant and was
thrust suddenly into improvisations when the piano had no musical strand. Over
several months these improvisations developed into compositions. When Windham
Hill's Will Ackerman heard a tape of these, he signed her to record her debut
album,
Solid Colors.
Liz Story recently signed with
DMI after
recording a number of best-selling, critically acclaimed albums for
Windham Hill and
RCA Records. Those
releases highlighted her classical piano background, fused with a wide range of
styles embracing jazz, folk, pop and impressionistic music.
A
native of California, Liz began her musical training as a young child,
studied classical piano while growing up in Southern
California, mastering Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 11 by the age of 11.
When her family moved to Germany during her teens, she added languages,
philosophy, and poetry to her studies. On her return to the United States, she
continued her piano studies at the Juilliard School of Music and enrolled at
Hunter College. But after hearing the jazz pianist Bill Evans one night at the
Bottom Line in New York City, she decided to learn jazz piano and became a
student of Sanford Gold, whom Evans recommended. Later, after moving back to
Southern California, she studied at the Dick Grove Music Workshops in Studio
City. During her studies, she took a job playing piano in a restaurant and was
thrust suddenly into improvisations when the piano had no musical strand. Over
several months these improvisations developed into compositions. When Windham
Hill's Will Ackerman heard a tape of these, he signed her to record her debut
album,
Solid Colors.
