FEMININITY

This piece is very much connected to the channeled piece TENDERNESS I created just a few weeks ago. It opened up a space for FEMININITY, a sort of prelude if you like.

It is important to note that the feminine side exists in us all, men and women alike. There are some women in whom the masculine side is the dominant one. Likewise, some men are very much connected to their feminine side.

We are not talking about a sexual identity nor about traits of character, but rather of femininity in an energetic sense.

The feminine has been neglected for eons of time in favour of the masculine. It is time to bring it back in so that the balance between the two is restored.

Motherhood, caring, tenderness, understanding, listening, forgiving, embracing and loving are but a few closely associated attributes of femininity.

I hope this channeled piece of music with its conveyed attributes awakens the dormant feminine in you.

Enjoy!

For a personalised piece of music please contact me on
+44 (0)7957 581 303
sharona@sharonaspieces.com
www.facebook.com/sharonas.pieces

FEMININITY

This piece is very much connected to the channeled piece TENDERNESS I created just a few weeks ago. It opened up a space for FEMININITY, a sort of prelude if you like.

It is important to note that the feminine side exists in us all, men and women alike. There are some women in whom the masculine side is the dominant one. Likewise, some men are very much connected to their feminine side.

We are not talking about a sexual identity nor about traits of character, but rather of femininity in an energetic sense.

The feminine has been neglected for eons of time in favour of the masculine. It is time to bring it back in so that the balance between the two is restored.

Motherhood, caring, tenderness, understanding, listening, forgiving, embracing and loving are but a few closely associated attributes of femininity.

I hope this channeled piece of music with its conveyed attributes awakens the dormant feminine in you.

Enjoy!

For a personalised piece of music please contact me on
+44 (0)7957 581 303
sharona@sharonaspieces.com
www.facebook.com/sharonas.pieces

Introductory masterclass on early keyboards:
fortepiano (Sharona Joshua)
harpsichord (Martin Perkins)

Friday, 7th June 2013
Harpsichord and Fortepiano Introduction session 11.00am-12.30pm
Auditions 1.30pm-3.30pm
Foyer Studio
Birmingham Conservatoire
Birmingham
B3 3HG

We are excited to announce the launch of our new, first of its kind, MMus course module ‘Historical Keyboard Performance’ (harpsichord and fortepiano) at Birmingham Conservatoire.

The course will commence at the start of next academic year (September 2013). This will be a 15 credit module, to be available alongside other MMus Options.

The module has been designed to give students practical experience in playing music of the 17th, 18th and early 19th centuries on period instruments (harpsichord and/or fortepiano). It is intended to help cultivate an understanding of style and techniques of the time, and develop associated skills such as improvisation and continuo playing, all of which will be transferable onto your modern piano playing.

Assessments will be held in the form of a 10-15 minute pre-concert talk, followed by a 20-25 minute recital on harpsichord / fortepiano.

The module will be limited to 5 students, therefore we will be shortlisting and auditioning students on the afternoon of Friday 7th June. Auditions will last 10 minutes – please prepare two contrasting movements of an eighteenth-century sonata (Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, etc.), to be played on the piano.

Students are also required to attend the Harpsichord and Fortepiano Introduction Session earlier on that day at 11pm-12.30pm, Foyer Studio.

If you are interested in taking this module next year, you must decide now, and let us know by Friday 31st May.

Also…

First year BMus piano students are strongly advised to attend, as they will be taking up fortepiano studies next year. Current second year BMus piano students who wish to continue with their fortepiano studies into next year and, similarly, those who are interested in harpsichord studies are invited to attend. Requests for further studies need to be submitted by the end of this summer term!

Please feel free to contact either of us if you have any questions.

sharona@sharonajoshua.com
martin.perkins@bcu.ac.uk

Bachelors final recital

Friday, 19 April 2013, 7pm
Arena foyer
Birmingham conservatoire
Paradise Place, Birmingham, B3 3HG

SCHUBERTIADE

An all Schubert-Goethe Lieder evening based on the theme of Mignon and Gretchen.

YiLing Chaing soprano
Joe Zainul tenor
Samuel Oram baritone
Sharona Joshua fortepiano (after Johann Fritz by Dennis Woolley, C.1820) and organ
Kelvin Loh Yung Szen fortepiano (see above)
Kendal Rebecca Bradshaw, Claire Cadman-Hope, Yu Xin Lau, Rachel Jonas-King, Tom Ping, Kirsty Williamson featured chorus singers

PROGRAMME
Prelude
Ganymed , D.544 (Op.19 No.3)

Fortepiano Solo (TBA)

Mignon
Kennst du das Land, D.321

Gesänges aus ‘Wilhelm Meister’ op.62

Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt (duet)
Heiss mich nicht reden
So last mich scheinen
Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt

An Mignon, D.161

Interlude
Fortepiano Solo (TBA)

Gretchen und Faust
Der Konig in Thule, D.367 (Op.5 No.5)

Gretchen am Spinnrade, D.118 (Op.2)

Scene aus Goethe’s Faust , D.126

Tickets are complimentary

TENDERNESS

This piece is called רכות in Hebrew. There doesn’t seem to be an exact translation of the word into English. The closest is a softening of sorts, tenderness, gentleness and warmth all wrapped into one.

I had actually created a piece called ‘softening’ about a year ago when I first started channeling through music. Listening back to it, it is interesting and encouraging for me to see how the pieces have evolved and developed since. From an initial somewhat scattered, sporadic burst of ideas to a more integrated and formulated style. I have no doubt I have yet some ways to go.

I have not much else to say about this piece that hasn’t already been explained in the accompanying video. Only that I create these channeled pieces as much for my own benefit as for others. It is a process, an accelerated one, that helps me grow into who I really am, that brings about the thinning of the veil between my human and higher self with utmost ease and grace.

I truly feel blessed!

As always, looking forward to hearing from you about your own personal experiences after having listened to this piece. If you would like to receive a personalised piece of music please contact me on

+44 (0)7957 581 303
sharona@sharonaspieces.com

https://www.facebook.com/sharonas.pieces

TENDERNESS

This piece is called רכות in Hebrew. There doesn’t seem to be an exact translation of the word into English. The closest is a softening of sorts, tenderness, gentleness and warmth all wrapped into one.

I had actually created a piece called ‘softening’ about a year ago when I first started channeling through music. Listening back to it, it is interesting and encouraging for me to see how the pieces have evolved and developed since. From an initial somewhat scattered, sporadic burst of ideas to a more integrated and formulated style. I have no doubt I have yet some ways to go.

I have not much else to say about this piece that hasn’t already been explained in the accompanying video. Only that I create these channeled pieces as much for my own benefit as for others. It is a process, an accelerated one, that helps me grow into who I really am, that brings about the thinning of the veil between my human and higher self with utmost ease and grace.

I truly feel blessed!

As always, looking forward to hearing from you about your own personal experiences after having listened to this piece. If you would like to receive a personalised piece of music please contact me on

+44 (0)7957 581 303
sharona@sharonaspieces.com

https://www.facebook.com/sharonas.pieces

CALM

I have recently come across this powerful tool, and am excited to share it with you.

I am currently undergoing a process of creating deep meaningful impassioned pieces of music that bring to the surface existing emotions, helping to work through them. These pieces can truly make a difference.

The piece CALM was channeled through me and improvised entirely in the moment. It’s message is:

“the new year has begun and with it the pressures and stresses of work. This piece is given as a present for all to calm and relax the soul”.

I was recently asked to describe what I experience emotionally while improvising. The answer to that is simple: not much! I don’t really receive messages while playing. I simply get myself into an energy of love (even for pieces that are to do with feelings like anger, fear and the likes). I do though remind myself every so often while improvising to concentrate on the subject at hand, in this case calmness.

In most cases, immediately after the playing I feel a sense of relief and gratitude that I managed to create something that feels right.

Only after listening back to the track do I finally get into the mood of the piece. The emotions start gushing out very intensely, so much so that I am often in tears during that first playback. For me, those are the defining therapeutic moments, and that is when I know the piece is actually doing what it’s mean to do.

If you would like to receive a personalised piece of music please contact me on

+44 (0)7957 581 303
sharona@sharonaspieces.com

https://www.facebook.com/sharonas.pieces

CALM

I have recently come across this powerful tool, and am excited to share it with you.

I am currently undergoing a process of creating deep meaningful impassioned pieces of music that bring to the surface existing emotions, helping to work through them. These pieces can truly make a difference.

The piece CALM was channeled through me and improvised entirely in the moment. It’s message is:

“the new year has begun and with it the pressures and stresses of work. This piece is given as a present for all to calm and relax the soul”.

I was recently asked to describe what I experience emotionally while improvising. The answer to that is simple: not much! I don’t really receive messages while playing. I simply get myself into an energy of love (even for pieces that are to do with feelings like anger, fear and the likes). I do though remind myself every so often while improvising to concentrate on the subject at hand, in this case calmness.

In most cases, immediately after the playing I feel a sense of relief and gratitude that I managed to create something that feels right.

Only after listening back to the track do I finally get into the mood of the piece. The emotions start gushing out very intensely, so much so that I am often in tears during that first playback. For me, those are the defining therapeutic moments, and that is when I know the piece is actually doing what it’s mean to do.

If you would like to receive a personalised piece of music please contact me on

+44 (0)7957 581 303
sharona@sharonaspieces.com

https://www.facebook.com/sharonas.pieces

PROMISED LAND – AN UNREQUITED FIRST LOVE

For those of you wondering how this process of creating channeled pieces actually works, I am adding my own personal experience with all the exposure in it. I hope, that by doing so, these processes, I post up every now and then, will become clearer even if only a little.

For the best part of twenty years now I have suffered from ongoing backaches . A pain between the shoulder blades, close to the spine in the upper back that simply refused to leave me in peace. During the years I have tried almost every treatment I know off: osteopathy, physiotherapy, reflexology, acupuncture, yoga, and many other methods, but all in vain! The pain persisted.

I started working with a wonderful woman, who helped me through meditation and a process of looking within. As a result I opened up to a channel of communication, and I myself was able to channel and even create channeled pieces of music.

I am a classical pianist in my profession. And here a whole new world had opened up to me, one that incorporates messages within musical pieces. Pieces that create healing simply by just listening to them.

In one of our meets I understood that my backaches were a sign, a signal my body was trying to send me, in order to get me to address a subject that I have been repressing for years. The subject was a youthful love that was never realised.

Despite an intense resistance to this, I eventually agreed to take a bold, brave step, to write a piece on the subject and send it off to the boy, now man, in question.

I went into a mediation, into an open and free state ready to receive messages. This time an Israeli song came up in the channeling, “Song of After the War” by Arik Einstein and Shem Tov Levi. I immediately saw the connection with my feelings of unrequited love, and the piece was written with this song’s melody in mind.

I sat next to the piano and the sounds flowed from within me. The fingers gliding over the keys without me knowing where to next. After, whenever I listen back, I am always stunned with the results.

The piece that was written as a result released the feelings of ‘what if’ and sadness I had, but also described my acceptance as a grown up. It is worth noting that during the process I felt as though my right shoulder was literally being torn off from my body. The pain was almost unbearable, and the emotions, of the child within, were running wild. I finished the song and sent it off.

What happened after was simply incredible! On that day, in fact only a few seconds after sending it, my body became very calm, a sort of calm one experiences after a great physical effort, like after a long run or aerobic exercise. My body loosened, freed up and essentially healed almost instantaneously.

I imagined this relief would pass, just as it did in the past when trying out other therapies. But the days passed, weeks and even months and the pain did not return. It simply disappeared without a trace! To today, the power, as well as the simplicity of the entire process continue to amaze me.

I’ve carried on my back this feeling of ‘what if’ for years, and this piece of music helped me close a circle. A circle in which I managed to release this person.

I know that this piece has in its power to release and heal every woman who ever experienced this feeling in an unrealised romantic relationship. The healing is done in a very simple way. All that is needed is to listen to the piece. Perhaps a few times, perhaps in sections, or perhaps even in one hearing while washing up or busying oneself with mundane things. All according to the personal feeling of each and every one. One needs only to listen!

Enjoy! Comments are welcome.

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הארץ המובטחת – אהבת נעורים שלא התממשה

לאלו מכם שתוהים כיצד למעשה עובדים התהליכים שאני מעלה מדי פעם, המשלבים יצירה בתיקשור, אני מצרפת את התהליך האישי שלי עם כל החשיפה שבו. זאת בתקווה שבעקבותו יתבהרו ויובנו תהליכים אלו אם אפילו במקצת

כעשרים שנה לערך סבלתי באופן יומי ומתמשך מכאבי גב. כאב שבין השכמות, בסמוך לעמוד השידרה בגב העליון, שפשוט סירב לעזוב אותי במנוחה. במשך השנים ניסיתי כמעט כל סוג תרפיה ידועה לי: אוסטיאופתיה, פיזיותרפיה, רפלקסולוגיה, דיקור סיני, יוגה ועוד שיטות רבות. אך לשוא! הכאב בשלו

התחלתי לעבוד עם אישה מקסימה שעזרה לי דרך מדיטציה והתבוננות פנימה. כתוצאה מהתהליך שעברתי גם נפתחתי לערוץ של תיקשור והתחלתי לתקשר בעצמי ואף ליצור יצירות מתוקשרות.

יש לציין שאני פסנתרנית קלאסית במקצועי. והנה נפתח בפניי עולם שלם שמשלב מסרים בתוך יצירות. יצירות שיוצרות ריפוי מיידי פשוט מעצם ההקשבה אליהן

באחד המפגשים הבנתי שכאבי הגב הם סימן, מעין איתות שהגוף שולח לי כדי שאעבוד על נושא שהדחקתי במשך שנים. הנושא היה אהבת נעורים שלא התממשה

למרות התנגדות עזה שהייתה לי הסכמתי לבסוף לקחת צעד נועז ואמיץ, לכתוב יצירה בנושא ולשלוח אותה לבחור שבו היה מדובר

נכנסתי למדיטציה, למצב פתוח ומשוחרר לקבלת מסרים. הפעם עלה שיר בתיקשור שלפני, השיר של אריק איינשטיין ושם טוב לוי ״שיר של אחרי מלחמה״. ראיתי את החיבור לתחושות שלי בנושא האהבה הלא ממומשת והיצירה התכתבה בעצם עם המלודיה של השיר

התיישבתי על יד הפסנתר והצלילים כמו קלחו מתוכי. האצבעות מרחפות על הקלידים ואינני לגמרי מודעת לאן הן מובילות. כשאני מקשיבה אחר כך לתוצאה אני תמיד המומה

היצירה שנכתבה שיחררה את תחושת הפיספוס והעצבות ויחד עם זאת תיארה את ההשלמה שלי כבוגרת. יש לציין שבמשך התהליך הרגשתי שהכתף הימנית כאילו נקרעת מגופי. הכאב היה כמעט בלתי נסבל והרגשות, של הילדה שבתוכי, השתוללו. סיימתי את השיר ושלחתי אותו לאותו בחור

מה שקרה בעקבות היה פשוט מדהים! ביום השליחה, למעשה כמה רגעים אחרי השליחה, גופי נכנס למן רוגע, כזה שחווים אחרי מאמץ גופני גדול, כמו ריצה ארוכה או התעמלות אירובית. הגוף נרפה, השתחרר ונרפא למעשה כמעט באופן מיידי

תיארתי לעצמי שההקלה הזו תחלוף, כפי שקרה בעבר עם תרפיות קודמות. אך הימים עברו, השבועות ואף החודשים חלפו והכאב לא חזר. הוא פשוט נעלם לבלי שוב!
העוצמה וכמו כן הפשטות שבתהליך כולו ממשיכים להדהים אותי עוד היום

נשאתי על גבי במשך שנים את תחושת הפיספוס והיצירה הזו עזרה לי למעשה לסגור מעגל. מעגל שבו הצלחתי לשחרר את הבחור הזה

אני יודעת שיש בכוחה של היצירה לשחרר ולרפא כל אישה שאי פעם חוותה איזושהי תחושת פספוס בקשר זוגי. הריפוי בטיפול נעשה באופן פשוט. צריך רק להקשיב ליצירה. אולי כמה פעמים, אולי קטעים, ואולי אפילו בשמיעה אחת תוך כדי שטיפת כלים והתעסקות בדברים אחרים. לפי ההרגשה האישית של כל אחד ואחת. יש רק להקשיב

תהנו! אשמח לשמוע תגובות

CONSENT

Perfect timing! The piece C-O-N-S-E-N-T. Just in time for planet earth’s shift into the fourth dimension tomorrow on 21.12.12

This piece is about consent… wait for it… consent to be god also! This concept might come as a shock to some of you.

Earth is being reborn as we speak into a higher dimension (the fourth dimension). This is an end of an era, an end to planet earth as we know it (as predicted by so many).

Contrary to those predictions though, we are moving into a new, higher, divine energy. And it’s frequency is loving, compassionate, gentle and powerful.

If we agree to open up our hearts to it we will receive the gift of abundance that will make our wishes come true and help us realise our true purpose here on earth.

Most people find it hard to agree to have it easy, to open up the heart, to become god also. Resistance starts building up. This piece was channeled through me in order to overcome these resistances and to help open up and agree to receive the gifts of this new energy.

So lets have a toast ‘Lehaim’ (‘to life’ in Hebrew) to a happy, blessed and abundant new year and era!

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איזה תיזמון. היצירה ה-ס-כ-מ-ה! בדיוק בזמן לקפיצה האנרגטית של כדור הארץ אל תוך המימד הרביעי מחר ה21.12.12

.יצירה זו היא על הסכמה…חכו לזה…הסכמה להיות אלוהים! הרעיון הזה עלול לזעזע חלק מכם

כדור הארץ עובר ממש ברגעים אלה לידה מחדש אל תוך מימד גבוה יותר, המימד הרביעי. זהו סוף עידן, סוף לכדור הארץ כפי שאנו מכירים אותו, כפי שניבאו כה רבים

אך בניגוד לנבואות אלו, אנו עוברים אל תוך אנרגיה חדשה, גבוהה יותר ואלוהית. התדר הוא של אהבה, חמלה, עדנה ועוצמתיות

אם נסכים לפתוח את ליבנו אליו נקבל מתנות של שפע שיגשימו את משאלותינו ויעזרו לנו לממש את הייעוד שלנו פה עלי אדמות

רובינו מתקשים להסכים שיהיה לנו קל ,מתקשים לפתוח את הלב, להסכים להיות אלוהים. ואז התנגדויות מתחילות להיווצר. יצירה זו תוקשרה דרכי על מנת להתגבר על קשיים אלו ולעזור לנו להיפתח ולהסכים לקבל את מתנות האנרגיה החדשה הזו

!אז בואו נשתה לחיים לשנה ולעידן של אושר, ברכות ושפע