Jesse Sprole Piano Studio

After a few busy months, I had an interaction with one of my student's grandmothers that was meaningful enough to encourage me to log on and post this video.

My student's grandfather recently passed away, and I was asked to play for the gathering after his funeral. In order to demonstrate what I could offer I played A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square (a relatively obscure WWII-era Jazz tune) after our lesson.

As I was playing on the century-old Steinway grand piano that had been in their family for generations, my student's grandmother was drawn out to listen. She didn't know how she remembered, but the melody and title came back after untold decades to reignite her own memories of the music's connection to her life.

It was a beautiful experience, and continued through the day of her dear husband's funeral, when she came up to the piano as I was playing songs from the Bette Midler movie For the Boys, and we shared a tearful and timeless human moment.

A rare moment of pure presence that I will cherish for the rest of my life.

A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square — Jesse Sprole, piano — Brent Edstrom, arranger A lovely Jazz standard written in 1939 by Manning Sherwin that cuts through the fog of time to bring a gust of spring into tired hearts.

My wife and I have settled in another wonderfully vibrant and creative part of the world, and I'm excited to start the next chapter of my piano studio in the Massachusetts Pioneer Valley.

I am accepting new students in and around Easthampton as well as across the world via a cool new music-focused video chat app Forte!!

Many exciting things to come, but first up... some Chopin!

~~~Happy Holidays Everyone!~~~

https://youtu.be/vkaMWxr2ZCE

Chopin – Fantasie Impromptu (1835) – Jesse Sprole, Piano Featuring the 1835 version of Frédéric Chopin's well-known masterpiece, as found by Arthur Rubenstein in the estate of the Baroness D'Este in 1960. A fascina...

Cranking the keyboards to 11 and resurrecting the spirit of a rock machine a decade passed, our ragtag two zombie crew has hobbled together this little piece of eye candy for all you hard rockin ghouls and goblins🤘👻🤘

Type O Negative - arr. Jesse Sprole - Love You to Death
https://youtu.be/1MYCMhCcIvo

Mural by Phillip Adams, 'Still Life'
https://www.muralarts.org/artworks/still-life/

Type O Negative - arr. Jesse Sprole - Love You to Death - YouTube For Halloween this year, I decided to step back in time and arrange the goth metal classic 'Love You to Death' by Type O Negative. The band was led by a devasta...

More Mural Music rising from the grave!

Just in time for Halloween, the next arrangement will feature the goth metal classic 'Love You to Death' by Type O Negative under the hauntingly beautiful 'Still Life' by Phillip Adams.

https://www.muralarts.org/artworks/still-life/

Good morning everyone!

Just uploaded the latest installment of Philly Mural Music!

Full of timely and cathartic reggae vibes, Skankin' Sweet highlights that amazing feeling of upliftment we experience after getting home from an exhausting, maybe even traumatic day, peel off our work clothes, crank some good tunes, and release all that pent up stress in song or dance or tears or hugs from the ones we love. Wishing everybody that feeling today!

Chronixx - Skankin' Sweet - Arranged by Jesse Sprole Piano arrangement for my students. Respect and love to Chronixx. Respect and love for this blessed, cathartic tune. Respect and love for Philly and it's peop...

More Mural Music on the way! Another feast for the eyes(Philly😍) featuring my arrangement of Skankin' Sweet by Chronixx.

UPDATE! You can watch the video here: https://youtu.be/OO1BQ9pDVNc

If you're feeling stressed and just want to mellow out with some peaceful solo piano music and the beautiful scenery of Northern Norway, check this out:

Jesse Sprole - quiet This began as an attempt to allow my dad a glimpse into the quiet, late night impov I kept guarded in headphones as a kid. What came out was a string of medi...

Just a quick update..

I've been having a lot of fun learning how to edit videos from found footage and started uploading the results to my youtube page here: http://bit.ly/JesseSprole

I'll be organizing by playlist as the content grows. I've got new Mural Music in the works, and will be continuing to release videos featuring the electronic music I've written over the last few decades... Stay tuned!!

Jesse Sprole A place to showcase projects developed for my piano students. Piano lessons are available in West Philly and around the world via zoom. jessesprole.com bit.l...

130 pianists from around the world gather virtually to wow us with the Debussy/Mulan Mashup premiere!! Thanks so much to Hugh Sung for bringing us together and working so hard to edit and produce something wonderful. After listening a couple times(use headphones!) you can really hear how beautiful and powerful it is to bring so many of us together in music.

Look closely and you'll see Ya Ching and I; drops in the ocean of sound...

130 pianists Debussy/Mulan Piano Orchestra MASHUP This exciting project is another way that Cunningham Piano Company is helping us all to make music together...while apart. This ORCHESTRA of pianos - featuri...

Thursday morning
First recording with the new rig was a success!
New music video coming SOON!!