Lewis/ Hulsmann/ Edwards/ Hiraga/ Shapiro - Atlantic Crossing / Rhapsodic ImagesThis album features violin virtuoso Kees Hlsmann, concertmaster of the Rotterdam Philharmonic, and pianist Matthew Edwards performing "Atlantic Crossing, " the duo version of Peter Scott Lewis' acclaimed "Second Violin Concerto, " originally commissioned and premiered by the Rotterdam Philharmonic. In addition, the CD features the Hiraga Wyrick Shapiro Trio, an excellent group from the San Francisco Symphony performing "Rhapsodic Images, " Lewis'

When legendary Joe Bonamassa was eager to be involved

In the Dominican Republic

With his playing noted for it's "tremendous virtuosity and stylistic versatility

based on a poetic Slavic melody

Michael Oman

and of renewal

Up against a seemingly impenetrable immigration system

The most significant statement of global creative optimism for a generation

Chaim Taub

"Julius Windisch's trio with Igor Spallati and Fermín Merlo

The amusing Peanuts® Gallery follows with a quote from Beethoven

Joe McCoy and other writers alongside her self-penned material and her versions of many well-known blues and jazz standards