Latest News from Southern View Sound & Music

The 3rd and last "Studio V" podcast episode exploring the grand piano is now available. It features piano technician Reid Schaefer, who is an expert on piano maintenance and tuning. He has cared for my pianos for over 3 decades, as together, we have tried to fine "tune" the sound and performance of the various pianos I have had during my career as a recording engineer. 
This episode gets inside the instrument and examines the materials and inner workings of the grand piano and the variety of sounds it can generate. It is a bit technical and extremely informative. 

Listen to Reid Schaefer Here

Southern View Sound and Music is presenting the 2nd in our series about the Grand Piano and fascinating people who play it. Colorado’s own Steve Barta will chat with Paul Vastola about Steve’s history with the piano, his catalog of enchanting Christmas albums, his Brazilian music stylings and his career revolving around his Steinway “B”.  Tune in to hear discussion and examples of Steve’s recording history with Paul and his collaboration with world renown Jazz flautists Herbie Mann and Hubert Laws. The series will air on www.coniferradio.com Monday evenings during August, 2022 at 7:00 and will be available here on our website.


Listen to Steve Barta Here

Paul's pocdast series "Studio V" will begin airing on coniferradio.com tonight June 20, and live each Monday at 7:00pm.  Now featuring stellar, internationally known Colorado pianist Lisa Downing and the story of her love for the piano. The series will highlight the Grand piano and artists who's careers center around the instrument. you can access the program through the link on our site. 

Listen to Lisa Downing Here


 

The Torii Gates are sacred wooden structures that were washed out to sea after the 2011 Fukushima earthquake and tsunami. Eventually, these structures floated across the Pacific ocean and were found 2 years later on a beach in Oregon. They were returned to their original location in Japan and rebuilt to great significance. A piano student of Lisa's painted a picture of the disaster and Lisa composed a piano piece to represent the event. A video about this story was created and won the Emmy.

I'm proud to have been featured in September 2016's "On That Note" the wonderful feature on Evergreen/Conifer area musical people. Corey Colombin wrote a 2 page description of me (Paul) and the services I will be providing to the foothills musical community. I have received many great compliments from Senerity readers. Corey really captured what Southernview Sound and Music's vision is.  I hope you get a chance to see it.