Big Noise is managing the career of Cecile Clement Grobe and representing Cecile's catalog of recordings and songs for placement and licensing in film, TV, and advertising. Music supervisors can contact Big Noise about Cecile's catalog at 401-274-4770 (USA) or by emailing al@bignoisenow.com.

Big Noise's Al Gomes, A. Michelle, and Cynthia Roberge produced Cecile's acclaimed CD, 'Christmasland.' Read the reviews here.

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Acclaimed classical pianist and composer Cecile Clement Grobe recently celebrated the release of her fifth CD, 'Christmasland.'

'Christmasland' (Big Noise) is Cecile's very first holiday recording. The CD is a beautifully constructed song cycle and holiday scrapbook that combines ten joyful seasonal classics with seven of Cecile's sparkling original compositions, evoking the great traditional heart-felt themes of families gathering together, and couples falling in love during the treasured holiday season.

Cecile received her formal training at the Juilliard School of Music, where she was a student of Carl Friedberg, who was the last surviving student of Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms.

She went on to pursue her career as a classical pianist, which has included performing at Carnegie Hall. She has been hailed by critics as a pianist of unerring sensitivity with disciplined romanticism, the keynote of her style.

Cecile tours extensively performing her original works.

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In the early 1990's, life as a concert pianist performing other composers' works and as a teacher was good. And maybe it would have stayed that way if not for a twist of fate.

One of her students, Joyce Kilmartin, encouraged her to start sharing the original compositions she had started to write with others. With Joyce's support and marketing expertise, Cecile soon found herself on a new path.

She began composing feverishly, something she'd always enjoyed but had always thought of as a personal interest rather than a professional one. That was to change, however, as she began performing her new works live and meeting with the audiences' responses.

In her own words: "My work comes from my experiences and I always learn something about myself. But from the overwhelming response of audiences, I realize that this personal experience is not personal at all. It is part of all of us, not mine, but ours."

"When I used to perform Bach and people didn't like it, I'd say, 'Oh well, they don't like Bach.' But when I started performing my own music, it was different."

Suddenly, as she began to talk to her audiences about her own music, she was somehow different. The sparkle in her eyes. The intensity on her face. The hands waving in the air as she described what she heard. What she felt. "You just reach a place inside where you are doing what you need to."

The Providence Journal described that: "One of the things I like best about Cecileís performance is that not only does her music sound so wonderful, but she tells you how she came up with it, like how she went walking in the woods and came back feeling so good that she captured that feeling in her music."

She translates her thoughts, her feelings, into the crescendos and the diminuendos, the dissonance and the harmony of her music. The romantic style that Cecile trained in with Carl Friedberg, with its musical flourishes and lush melodic tapestry is perfect to carry the emotive power of her compositions.

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