George Peter Tingley
I am a professional composer of many kinds of music working in the San Francisco Bay Area. #music An original jazz-blues featuring George Brooks on tenor sax. I have provided a bit of programming, playing, mixing, and mastering. Original track was recorded at 25th Street Recording in Oakland, CA on October 12, 2022. A short solo piano piece Inspired by both Handel and Rachmaninoff which I recorded at 25th Street Recording in Oakland, CA in October of 2017. My ragtime composition performed by the imitable Frederic Hodges. A fresh mix of my jazz tune "Saturday Nite" featuring George Brooks on tenor sax. My ragtime composition called SUNDAY STROLL played by Venetian-Italian pianist Alessandro Simonetto on his glorious Steinway D-274. My composition featuring San Francisco Bay Area violinist Michael Grossman with me on piano. This is the original, pristine, high resolution recording (96kHz/24bit) from March 21, 2021. My piano performance of the Halvorsen transformation. My music setting of the classic Pie Jesu text featuring former San Francisco Opera Adler Fellow Esther Tonea. A new jazz tune I composed and had recorded in 2022. It features George Brooks on tenor sax with me programming and playing the rest. The piece is a tribute to my favorite jazz record label BLUE NOTE whose musicians have inspired me to reach higher. My composition inspired by Gregorian chant among other influences. This is the piano/cello version featuring cellist Miriam Perkoff. My setting of The Beatitudes in a high resolution 96kHz/24bit recording. A little jazz tune of mine featuring George Brooks on alto sax with me on a 1909 Steinway B baby grand. This was recorded on October 12, 2022 at 25th Street Recording in Oakland, CA. Virtual orchestration was added as an afterthought in my home studion in Point Richmond, CA. My little Prokofiev-inspired march played by Santa Rosa Symphony trumpeter Daniel Noriega-Norris. I added some virtual orchestration after the fact. My solo piano piece Intermezzo in F minor recorded here by Venetian-Italian pianist Alessandro Simonetto. My new setting of the Francesco Pennino song "Povera Canzona" sung here by tenor extraordinaire Chris Oglesby. My original composition "The Great Conversation" in an orchestral expansion featuring Miriam Perkoff on cello. My little piano teaching piece orchestrated featuring Daniel Gianolla-Norris on lead trumpet. From my collection Dreamscapes, Book One, and played here by Venetian-Italian pianist Alessandro Simonetto. The second piece from my collection Dreamscapes, Book One, is played here by Venetian-Italian pianist Alessandro Simonetto. My Prelude in F# minor performed by pianist Alessandro Simonetto. My piano solo supplemented with orchestration. My setting of Holy, Holy, Holy from the Roman Catholic mass. Christopher Colmenero, recent Adler Fellow with San Francisco Opera, is the tenor soloist with me on piano Me and trumpeter Daniel Norriega Norris improvising our first reading of my lttle tune March Proko from a lead sheet. My jazz tune featuring George Brooks on tenor saxophone. I programmed and performed on the backing track. A little waltz composed when I was 19. Alessandro Simonetto is the piano soloist. My little jazz tune performed here by the two Georges: George Brooks on tenor saxophone with me, George Tingley, tickling a Vintage 1909 Steinway B grand. We recorded at 25th Street Recording in Oakland CA in October of 2022. My piano solo performance of the Yiruma classic. A piano piece that was inspired by hearing Mascagni's Cavelleria Rusticana a few years back at San Francisco Opera. It did not hurt growing up culturally Sicilian despite my English surname. My setting of the iconic Old Testament text featuring former San Francisco Opera tenor and Adler Fellow Chris Oglesby. This is the original recording restored to its natural, pristine state, fully dynamic just as it was heard in the moment it was recorded. Originally composed in 2013, Summer Storm is heard in its present incarnation as a piano-orchestra curtainraiser. My setting of Psalm 23 featuring soprano sensation Esther Tonea, a recent prizewinner at Met Opera in New York. My little bit of musical impressionism performed by pianist Alessandro Simonetto. My setting of the classic text by civil rights activist Howard Thurman, with Christopher Colmenero, recent of the San Francisco Opera, taking the tenor vocal. I am on virtual piano, a Pianoteq Steinway B grand by Modartt. This was recorded in the fall of 2020 but just recently remastered in high resolution 24bit/96k. A new bossa nova of mine trying to stay positive. My jazz tune featuring tenor saxophonist George Brooks. The orchestrated version of my little jazz tune featuring alto saxophonist George Brooks. Again with the Valhalla Vintage verb: medium room on the sax. with an RT af 1.79. My jazz tune featuring tenor saxophonist George Brooks. Valhalla Vintage medium verb on this one. My arrangement of an old Earl Collins fiddle tune, played here by SF Bay Area violinist Jeremy Cohen with me on piano. My new Irish tune - now orchestrated - just in time for St. Patrick's Day. A combination of orchestral instruments and virtual synths. My 2014 music setting of the Fred Pratt Green hymn is heard here as an instrumental featuring San Francisco Bay Area violinist (and New Jersey transplant) Michael Grosssman. High resolution 96kHz/24bit recording. This is the original piano solo version of the music I composed for Olympic gold-medal figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi. She would go on to skate to the big orchestral version during the mid-1990s. Venetian-Italian pianist Alessandro Simonetto is the pianist here. The solo piano version of my Summer Storm in a new interpretation by Venetian-Italian pianist Alessandro Simonetto. An original vocalise featuring three Adler Fellows from San Francisco Opera. I'm on piano. This is a high resolution 24bit/96kHz recording. My music setting of the Ave Maria text featuring Canadian soprano Anne-Marie MacIntosh recent Adler Fellow at San Francisco Opera. Most recent arrangement/orchestration of my tune SUMMER STORM, this featuring pianist Alessandro Simonetto. My piano solo played by Alessandro Simonetto with added orchestration. My little piano piece orchetrated featuring harp, strings, and woodwinds. My orchestration of an original piano teaching piece. A piano solo from a few years back in a 2023 update. My setting of Psalm 13 featuring Canadian soprano Anne-Marie Macintosh. This is the original solo piano version of a piece which has been heard in arrangements for viola, cello, as well as bassoon. Alessandro Simonetto is the pianist here. Orchestrated from my original piano solo. An early composition in a new recording featuring pianist Alessandro Simonetto. An early rag of mine that I have started calling my Unfinished Rag, a ragtime essay which seems to say more for the very fact that complete fulfillment has been withheld. Collab with daughter Anna on the classic Bobby Hebbe song, SUNNY. The orchestrated version of my piano Prelude in F# minor. The first of 12 Dreamscape piano solos published by the Alfred Publishing Company. Alessandro Simonetto performs Arietta from my Dreamscapes collection, Book 2 published by Alfred. I just added some orchestration. My piano cover of the Lady Gaga song. My solo piano composition "Time's Memory" performed by Venetian-Italian pianist Alessandro Simonetto. My new setting of the classic Bernard Ighner lyric featuring the tenor voice of recent Adler Fellow at San Francisco Opera Chris Oglesby. My Scherzo alla Russe with Michael Grossman, violin; Liz Prior, viola; Miriam Perkoff, cello; and me on piano My piano cover of the Whitney Houston hit composed by Allan Rich and Jud Friedman. A piece born in 2013 that continues to live and develop. Jeremy Cohen is on violin with me doing all the other stuff - including me exploring the sounds of several virtual classic synths such as PPG, Sy99, Roland SH-5, Alesis, and Minimoog. Music for 'cello and piano featuring cellist Miriam Perkoff. My tune played by saxmeister George Brooks. I recently updated the production to include the iconic Juno 60 synthesizer as well as a dramatic introduction announcing the entry of the tenor saxophone.
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I am a professional composer of many kinds of music working in the San Francisco Bay Area.

#music

An original jazz-blues featuring George Brooks on tenor sax.  I have provided a bit of programming, playing, mixing, and mastering. Original track was recorded at 25th Street Recording in Oakland, CA on October 12, 2022.

A short solo piano piece Inspired by both Handel and Rachmaninoff which I recorded at 25th Street Recording in Oakland, CA in October of 2017.

My ragtime composition performed by the imitable Frederic Hodges.

A fresh mix of my jazz tune "Saturday Nite" featuring George Brooks on tenor sax.

My ragtime composition called SUNDAY STROLL played by Venetian-Italian pianist Alessandro Simonetto on his glorious Steinway D-274.

My composition featuring San Francisco Bay Area violinist Michael Grossman with me on piano. This is the original,  pristine,  high resolution recording (96kHz/24bit) from March 21, 2021.

My piano performance of the Halvorsen transformation.

My music setting of the classic Pie Jesu text featuring former San Francisco Opera Adler Fellow Esther Tonea.

A new jazz tune I composed and had recorded in 2022. It features George Brooks on tenor sax with me programming and playing the rest.  The piece is a tribute to my favorite jazz record label BLUE NOTE whose musicians have inspired me to reach higher.

My composition inspired by Gregorian chant among other influences. This is the piano/cello version featuring cellist Miriam Perkoff.

My setting of The Beatitudes in a high resolution 96kHz/24bit recording.

A little jazz tune of mine featuring George Brooks on alto sax with me on a 1909 Steinway B baby grand.  This was recorded on October 12, 2022 at 25th Street Recording in Oakland, CA.  Virtual orchestration was added as an afterthought in my home studion in Point Richmond, CA.

My little Prokofiev-inspired march played by Santa Rosa Symphony trumpeter Daniel Noriega-Norris. I added some virtual orchestration after the fact.

My solo piano piece Intermezzo in F minor recorded here by Venetian-Italian pianist Alessandro Simonetto.

My new setting of the Francesco Pennino song "Povera Canzona" sung here by tenor extraordinaire Chris Oglesby.

My original composition "The Great Conversation" in an orchestral expansion featuring Miriam Perkoff on cello.

My little piano teaching piece orchestrated featuring Daniel Gianolla-Norris on lead trumpet.

From my collection Dreamscapes, Book One, and played here by Venetian-Italian pianist Alessandro Simonetto.

The second piece from my collection Dreamscapes, Book One, is played here by Venetian-Italian pianist Alessandro Simonetto.

My Prelude in F# minor performed by pianist Alessandro Simonetto.

My piano solo supplemented with orchestration.

My setting of Holy, Holy, Holy from the Roman Catholic mass. Christopher Colmenero,  recent Adler Fellow with San Francisco Opera, is the tenor soloist with me on piano

Me and trumpeter Daniel Norriega Norris improvising our first reading of my lttle tune March Proko from a lead sheet.

My jazz tune featuring George Brooks on tenor saxophone.
 I programmed and performed on the backing track.

A little waltz composed when I was 19.  Alessandro Simonetto is the piano soloist.

My little jazz tune performed here by the two Georges: George Brooks on tenor saxophone with me, George Tingley, tickling a Vintage 1909 Steinway B grand. We recorded at 25th Street Recording in Oakland CA in October of 2022.

My piano solo performance of the Yiruma classic.

A piano piece that was inspired by hearing Mascagni's Cavelleria Rusticana a few years back at San Francisco Opera. It did not hurt growing up culturally Sicilian despite my English surname.

My setting of the iconic Old Testament text featuring former San Francisco Opera tenor and Adler Fellow Chris Oglesby. This is the original recording restored to its natural, pristine state, fully dynamic just as it was heard in the moment it was recorded.

Originally composed in 2013, Summer Storm is heard in its present incarnation as a piano-orchestra curtainraiser.

My setting of Psalm 23 featuring soprano sensation Esther Tonea, a recent prizewinner at Met Opera in New York.

My little bit of musical impressionism performed by pianist Alessandro Simonetto.

My setting of the classic text by civil rights activist Howard Thurman, with Christopher Colmenero, recent of the San Francisco Opera, taking the tenor vocal.  I am on virtual piano, a Pianoteq Steinway B grand by Modartt. This was recorded in the fall of 2020 but just recently remastered in high resolution 24bit/96k.

A new bossa nova of mine trying to stay positive.

My jazz tune featuring tenor saxophonist George Brooks.

The orchestrated version of my little jazz tune featuring alto saxophonist George Brooks.  Again with the Valhalla Vintage verb:  medium room on the sax. with an RT af 1.79.

My jazz tune featuring tenor saxophonist George Brooks. Valhalla Vintage medium verb on this one.

My arrangement of an old Earl Collins fiddle tune, played here by SF Bay Area violinist Jeremy Cohen with me on piano.

My new Irish tune - now orchestrated - just in time for St. Patrick's Day.

A combination of orchestral instruments and virtual synths.

My 2014 music setting of the Fred Pratt Green hymn is heard here as an instrumental featuring San Francisco Bay Area violinist (and New Jersey transplant) Michael Grosssman. High resolution 96kHz/24bit recording.

This is the original piano solo version of the music I composed for Olympic gold-medal figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi. She would go on to skate to the big orchestral version during the mid-1990s.  Venetian-Italian pianist Alessandro Simonetto is the pianist here.

The solo piano version of my Summer Storm in a new interpretation by Venetian-Italian pianist Alessandro Simonetto.

An original vocalise featuring three Adler Fellows from San Francisco Opera.  I'm on piano. This is a high resolution 24bit/96kHz recording.

My music setting of the Ave Maria text featuring Canadian soprano Anne-Marie MacIntosh recent Adler Fellow at San Francisco Opera.

Most recent arrangement/orchestration of my tune SUMMER STORM, this featuring pianist Alessandro Simonetto.

My piano solo played by Alessandro Simonetto with added orchestration.

My little piano piece orchetrated featuring harp, strings, and woodwinds.

My orchestration of an original piano teaching piece.

A piano solo from a few years back in a 2023 update.

My setting of Psalm 13 featuring Canadian soprano Anne-Marie Macintosh.

This is the original solo piano version of a piece which has been heard in arrangements for viola, cello, as well as bassoon. Alessandro Simonetto is the pianist here.

Orchestrated from my original piano solo.

An early composition in a new recording featuring pianist Alessandro Simonetto.

An early rag of mine that I have started calling my Unfinished Rag, a ragtime essay which seems to say more for the very fact that complete fulfillment has been withheld.

Collab with daughter Anna on the classic Bobby Hebbe song, SUNNY.

The orchestrated version of my piano Prelude in F# minor.

The first of 12 Dreamscape piano solos published by the Alfred Publishing Company.

Alessandro Simonetto performs Arietta from my Dreamscapes collection, Book 2 published by Alfred.  I just added some orchestration.

My piano cover of the Lady Gaga song.

My solo piano composition "Time's Memory" performed by Venetian-Italian pianist Alessandro Simonetto.

My new setting of the classic Bernard Ighner lyric featuring the tenor voice of recent Adler Fellow at San Francisco Opera Chris Oglesby.

My Scherzo alla Russe with Michael Grossman, violin; Liz Prior, viola; Miriam Perkoff, cello; and me on piano

My piano cover of the Whitney Houston hit composed by Allan Rich and Jud Friedman.

A piece born in 2013 that continues to live and develop. Jeremy Cohen is on violin with me doing all the other stuff - including me exploring the sounds of several virtual classic synths such as PPG, Sy99, Roland SH-5, Alesis, and Minimoog.

Music for 'cello and piano featuring cellist Miriam Perkoff.

My tune played by saxmeister George Brooks. I recently updated the production to include the iconic Juno 60 synthesizer as well as a dramatic introduction announcing the entry of the tenor saxophone.

George Peter Tingley

I am a professional composer of many kinds of music working in the San Francisco Bay Area.

#music

An original jazz-blues featuring George Brooks on tenor sax. I have provided a bit of programming, playing, mixing, and mastering. Original track was recorded at 25th Street Recording in Oakland, CA on October 12, 2022.

A short solo piano piece Inspired by both Handel and Rachmaninoff which I recorded at 25th Street Recording in Oakland, CA in October of 2017.

My ragtime composition performed by the imitable Frederic Hodges.

A fresh mix of my jazz tune "Saturday Nite" featuring George Brooks on tenor sax.

My ragtime composition called SUNDAY STROLL played by Venetian-Italian pianist Alessandro Simonetto on his glorious Steinway D-274.

My composition featuring San Francisco Bay Area violinist Michael Grossman with me on piano. This is the original, pristine, high resolution recording (96kHz/24bit) from March 21, 2021.

My piano performance of the Halvorsen transformation.

My music setting of the classic Pie Jesu text featuring former San Francisco Opera Adler Fellow Esther Tonea.

A new jazz tune I composed and had recorded in 2022. It features George Brooks on tenor sax with me programming and playing the rest. The piece is a tribute to my favorite jazz record label BLUE NOTE whose musicians have inspired me to reach higher.

My composition inspired by Gregorian chant among other influences. This is the piano/cello version featuring cellist Miriam Perkoff.

My setting of The Beatitudes in a high resolution 96kHz/24bit recording.

A little jazz tune of mine featuring George Brooks on alto sax with me on a 1909 Steinway B baby grand. This was recorded on October 12, 2022 at 25th Street Recording in Oakland, CA. Virtual orchestration was added as an afterthought in my home studion in Point Richmond, CA.

My little Prokofiev-inspired march played by Santa Rosa Symphony trumpeter Daniel Noriega-Norris. I added some virtual orchestration after the fact.

My solo piano piece Intermezzo in F minor recorded here by Venetian-Italian pianist Alessandro Simonetto.

My new setting of the Francesco Pennino song "Povera Canzona" sung here by tenor extraordinaire Chris Oglesby.

My original composition "The Great Conversation" in an orchestral expansion featuring Miriam Perkoff on cello.

My little piano teaching piece orchestrated featuring Daniel Gianolla-Norris on lead trumpet.

From my collection Dreamscapes, Book One, and played here by Venetian-Italian pianist Alessandro Simonetto.

The second piece from my collection Dreamscapes, Book One, is played here by Venetian-Italian pianist Alessandro Simonetto.

My Prelude in F# minor performed by pianist Alessandro Simonetto.

My piano solo supplemented with orchestration.

My setting of Holy, Holy, Holy from the Roman Catholic mass. Christopher Colmenero, recent Adler Fellow with San Francisco Opera, is the tenor soloist with me on piano

Me and trumpeter Daniel Norriega Norris improvising our first reading of my lttle tune March Proko from a lead sheet.

My jazz tune featuring George Brooks on tenor saxophone.
I programmed and performed on the backing track.

A little waltz composed when I was 19. Alessandro Simonetto is the piano soloist.

My little jazz tune performed here by the two Georges: George Brooks on tenor saxophone with me, George Tingley, tickling a Vintage 1909 Steinway B grand. We recorded at 25th Street Recording in Oakland CA in October of 2022.

My piano solo performance of the Yiruma classic.

A piano piece that was inspired by hearing Mascagni's Cavelleria Rusticana a few years back at San Francisco Opera. It did not hurt growing up culturally Sicilian despite my English surname.

My setting of the iconic Old Testament text featuring former San Francisco Opera tenor and Adler Fellow Chris Oglesby. This is the original recording restored to its natural, pristine state, fully dynamic just as it was heard in the moment it was recorded.

Originally composed in 2013, Summer Storm is heard in its present incarnation as a piano-orchestra curtainraiser.

My setting of Psalm 23 featuring soprano sensation Esther Tonea, a recent prizewinner at Met Opera in New York.

My little bit of musical impressionism performed by pianist Alessandro Simonetto.

My setting of the classic text by civil rights activist Howard Thurman, with Christopher Colmenero, recent of the San Francisco Opera, taking the tenor vocal. I am on virtual piano, a Pianoteq Steinway B grand by Modartt. This was recorded in the fall of 2020 but just recently remastered in high resolution 24bit/96k.

A new bossa nova of mine trying to stay positive.

My jazz tune featuring tenor saxophonist George Brooks.

The orchestrated version of my little jazz tune featuring alto saxophonist George Brooks. Again with the Valhalla Vintage verb: medium room on the sax. with an RT af 1.79.

My jazz tune featuring tenor saxophonist George Brooks. Valhalla Vintage medium verb on this one.

My arrangement of an old Earl Collins fiddle tune, played here by SF Bay Area violinist Jeremy Cohen with me on piano.

My new Irish tune - now orchestrated - just in time for St. Patrick's Day.

A combination of orchestral instruments and virtual synths.

My 2014 music setting of the Fred Pratt Green hymn is heard here as an instrumental featuring San Francisco Bay Area violinist (and New Jersey transplant) Michael Grosssman. High resolution 96kHz/24bit recording.

This is the original piano solo version of the music I composed for Olympic gold-medal figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi. She would go on to skate to the big orchestral version during the mid-1990s. Venetian-Italian pianist Alessandro Simonetto is the pianist here.

The solo piano version of my Summer Storm in a new interpretation by Venetian-Italian pianist Alessandro Simonetto.

An original vocalise featuring three Adler Fellows from San Francisco Opera. I'm on piano. This is a high resolution 24bit/96kHz recording.

My music setting of the Ave Maria text featuring Canadian soprano Anne-Marie MacIntosh recent Adler Fellow at San Francisco Opera.

Most recent arrangement/orchestration of my tune SUMMER STORM, this featuring pianist Alessandro Simonetto.

My piano solo played by Alessandro Simonetto with added orchestration.

My little piano piece orchetrated featuring harp, strings, and woodwinds.

My orchestration of an original piano teaching piece.

A piano solo from a few years back in a 2023 update.

My setting of Psalm 13 featuring Canadian soprano Anne-Marie Macintosh.

This is the original solo piano version of a piece which has been heard in arrangements for viola, cello, as well as bassoon. Alessandro Simonetto is the pianist here.

Orchestrated from my original piano solo.

An early composition in a new recording featuring pianist Alessandro Simonetto.

An early rag of mine that I have started calling my Unfinished Rag, a ragtime essay which seems to say more for the very fact that complete fulfillment has been withheld.

Collab with daughter Anna on the classic Bobby Hebbe song, SUNNY.

The orchestrated version of my piano Prelude in F# minor.

The first of 12 Dreamscape piano solos published by the Alfred Publishing Company.

Alessandro Simonetto performs Arietta from my Dreamscapes collection, Book 2 published by Alfred. I just added some orchestration.

My piano cover of the Lady Gaga song.

My solo piano composition "Time's Memory" performed by Venetian-Italian pianist Alessandro Simonetto.

My new setting of the classic Bernard Ighner lyric featuring the tenor voice of recent Adler Fellow at San Francisco Opera Chris Oglesby.

My Scherzo alla Russe with Michael Grossman, violin; Liz Prior, viola; Miriam Perkoff, cello; and me on piano

My piano cover of the Whitney Houston hit composed by Allan Rich and Jud Friedman.

A piece born in 2013 that continues to live and develop. Jeremy Cohen is on violin with me doing all the other stuff - including me exploring the sounds of several virtual classic synths such as PPG, Sy99, Roland SH-5, Alesis, and Minimoog.

Music for 'cello and piano featuring cellist Miriam Perkoff.

My tune played by saxmeister George Brooks. I recently updated the production to include the iconic Juno 60 synthesizer as well as a dramatic introduction announcing the entry of the tenor saxophone.