Australian composer and pianist Andrew Keese has announced the release of his forthcoming album Illuminator, alongside a series of European concert dates set for summer 2025.

Gravity of the Ocean by Aliya Lark, the London-based neoclassical composer and pianist, is a six-track instrumental work that blends felt piano, ambient textures, delicate strings, and subtle electronics. Released on July 18, 2025, the album marks the next step in her emotionally nuanced musical storytelling—a sound world already praised by BBC Radio 3 and featured on Spain's AD21 Music.

There are artists who compose music, and then there are artists who reveal something of the world—and of themselves—through sound. Andrew Keese belongs to the latter. An Australian composer, pianist, and multi-instrumentalist, his work resists easy categorization. It walks the line between neoclassical, ambient, and post-rock, but never settles comfortably into any single label. What sets him apart is not just his aesthetic, but the way his music feels lived rooted in experie

Velvet Lark invites us into a quiet world of faded memories and sonic fragments in Letters Never Sent, a debut album composed like a handwritten note left on a windowsill—personal, tender, and ephemeral. The project unfolds in seven delicate pieces, just over ten minutes long, but rich with the weight of emotion, memory, and unspoken thoughts.

Music is often described as the most abstract of the arts, yet it has the power to shape images, stir emotions, and tell stories without a single word. In her debut album The Best Chapter, Italian composer and pianist Alessandra Toni does exactly that. Each of the twelve tracks feels like a finely sculpted conic form—shaped with precision, depth, and poetry. Her music doesn’t shout—it breathes, it unfolds. And through this carefully woven journey,

Estonian Music & Art News - Week 4, March 2025