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We are excited to announce our 2023 SoloPiano.com Album of The Year Nominees!

Congratulations to all of the Solo Piano Artists who continue to create heartfelt and moving piano music from around the world. This year we represented over 14 different countries from 6 different categories.

Also, we want to take a moment to say thank you for all of those that continue to support us and our platform. This year we underwent one of our biggest ever back-end updates and changes. So many hours went into this, and we are super proud to continue to offer solo piano artists a FREE SoloPiano.com page, like we have for many years now.

Please take a moment to view our nominees from 2023, and be sure to add them to your favorite playlists and support their music!

Link to Nominations Here: https://solopiano.com/blog/view/the-solopiano.com-2023-album-of-the-year-nominees

Ward De Vleeschhouwer Pianist - Composer Gerald Krampl Hovig Nassanian Livio Ventura Roger Evernden - musician Greg Harradine, Composer Juan María Solare Lynn Tredeau Solo Piano Charles Szczepanek Philip Campbell Music Doug Hammer Paolo Cognetti Michael Borowski Lisa Swerdlow Michael Martinez Pete Calandra Music Tobin Mueller Joe Alterman Robin Meloy Goldsby Omar Akram Grégoire Jokic

We are so sad to share the news of the passing of one of our artists on SoloPiano.com. The remarkable George Winston 😢

If you are familiar with piano music, then Mr. Winston is no stranger. He was a significant, and for many the sole, inspiration in becoming many solo pianists today.

His brilliance, combined with his humility in constantly giving back to the poor, was unmatched. We will continue to share more about George in honoring is amazing life.

To give back to his causes, please check out the links below. Our deepest condolences and prayers are with his family and loved ones during this time.

Thank you, Mr. Winston. Your Legacy WILL Live on! 🙏❤️

We are deeply saddened to share the news that George Winston has passed on after a 10-year battle with cancer. George quietly and painlessly left this world while asleep on Sunday, June 4, 2023. George courageously managed serious cancers, including having a successful bone marrow transplant for Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS) in 2013 at City of Hope, in Duarte, California, that gratefully extended his life by 10 years. Throughout his cancer treatments, George continued to write and record new music, and he stayed true to his greatest passion: performing for live audiences while raising funds for Feeding America to help fight the national hunger crisis along with donating proceeds from each of his concerts to local food banks. Across an illustrious career spanning more than 50 years, George’s music first became known and loved by his fans with the release of his two most iconic albums, Autumn (1980) and December (1982). George's recordings evolved with the times while garnering a GRAMMY Award for Forest (plus five GRAMMY nominations) and selling over 15 million albums. George touched the hearts of generations with his acclaimed solo acoustic piano compositions. From his early days in Montana, Mississippi and Florida, to his later life living in the San Francisco Bay Area and touring to cities worldwide, America’s beautiful landscapes and natural seasons shaped his singular instrumental folk piano. With 16 solo piano albums to his name, George recorded brilliant piano music, which includes tribute recordings for Vince Guaraldi, The Doors, a Hurricane Katrina relief benefit, Gulf Coast and Louisiana Wetlands benefits, September 11 benefit, a cancer research benefit for City of Hope, the Peanuts episode “This Is America Charlie Brown: The Birth Of The Constitution,” among others. George’s legacy includes his beloved catalog as well as an archive of his own acoustic guitar and harmonica recordings, and albums by an array of Hawaiian slack key artists on his own record label, Dancing Cat Records. George is pre-deceased by his parents, George and Mary Winston, and is survived by his sister, niece and nephew.

The family of George Winston will hold a private memorial service. For donations in memory of George Winston, please visit:

Feeding America:
https://tinyurl.com/GeorgeWinstonFeedingAmerica

City Of Hope Cancer Center:
https://tinyurl.com/GeorgeWinstonCityOfHope

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center:
https://tinyurl.com/GeorgeWinstonSloanKettering