Dimension - Music

For A Piano Player He's Had Quite A Ride. During The Last Ten Years Alone Ben Dowling Has Performed At Some Of The Most Prestigious Venues In The World - From The Montreau Jazz Festival In Switzerland To The Blue Note Nightclub Scene In Tokyo To New York's Lincoln Center To The Greek Theater And Hollywood Bowl In LA. A "musician's Musician " He Was Deeply Involved In The Development Of Modern Sound Synthesizers During His Tenure With Korg In The Late 80's And Early 90's Developing The M1 Wavestation And Oasys Synths. As A Producer A Music Director For Grammy And Academy Award Winning Artists A Synthesist For Joe Zawinul And Michael Jackson As Film Score Composer For The CINE Golden Eagle Winning United Nations Documentary A Place To Stand Or As A Co-Writer On The Whispers New Gospel Hit Thou Art With Me Dowling Continues To Astound With His Recent Release Of Jazz Fusion Project World Rising Featuring Will Kennedy Bob Sheppard And Mindi Abair - Currently Playing On More Than 100 Jazz Stations Around The US. "I Love Making Music. It Is A Spiritual Practice For Me Training To Be In The Moment In A Very Profound Way - Whether It Is Improvising Composing Or Finding The Inner Artist And Bringing That Out In Production. It's All So Amazing." While It Might Be Expected That A Keyboardist Could Play In As Many Technology-Laden Fields Of Music What Is Unexpected Is The Virtuosity Of Dowling's Pianistic Touch And Approach. With A Unique Suspensive Pedal Technique Reminiscent Of Chopin And Keith Jarrett His Solo Piano Music Has Been Embraced By Everyone From Kenny Loggins To Best Song Academy Award Nominee Bird York - Performing With Her Recently At Several Hollywood Benefits And Award Shows. But It Is As A Complete Musician That Dowling Truly Shines. With Furious Technical Chops Combined With Multiple Tradition-Informed Sensibilities Dowling Can Rock Out In A Straight-Ahead Fashion Ala Hancock And Evans Swim In Contemporary Classical Waters To Playing Nu-Gospel With The Agape International Choir - All With Complete Commitment And Authenticity. Collaborating With Other Artists Seems To Be Thematic In Dowling's Life Demonstrated With His Multi-Media Exploration With Painter And Visual Artist Mark Wagner In Visionsound's The Path Of Peace Released On CD/DVD Hybrid "DualDisc" In 2007. Currently On Tour With Earth Wind & Fire's Al McKay He Scored The Film Spiritual Liberation Featuring American Mystic Michael Bernard Beckwith - In Addition To Performing In His Recent PBS Special The Answer Is You With Niki Haris Siedah Garrett And The Agape Choir - And Recording Structures Of The Heart A Series Of Improvisations With Georg Faust Principal Cellist Of The Berlin Philharmonic. Awards And Honors Over The Years Dowling Has Accrued Multiple Gold And Platinum Records A CINE Golden Eagle For Documentary Scoring And Multiple Technology Awards For Synthesizer Developments. In Addition His Original Compositions Have Been Featured On Recordings Broadcast Radio And Television - And Internationally In Association With The United Nations. Discography Tom Coster "Did Ja Miss Me" - 1989 Programmer Freddy Hubbard "Times Are Changin'" - 1989 Programmer Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe "Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe" - 1989 Songwriter Tom Coster "From Me To You" - 1990 Programmer Starr Parodi "Change" - 1991 Programmer David Patt "Intimate Notions" - 1991 Programmer Greg Walker "Love You So Good" - 1991 Producer Michael Jackson "Dangerous" - 1991 Programmer Yellowjackets "Greenhouse" - 1991 Programmer Michael Jackson "HIStory" - 1995 Keyboardist/programmer Kathleen Gibson "Jungle Bungalow" - 1997 Producer Equator "Equator" - 1998 Producer JD Martin "One Heart" - 2000 Producer Suzanne Teng "Mystic Journey" - 2001 Keyboardist Jami Lula "Something's Calling Me" - 2001 Producer Benjamin Dowling "Ahimsa" - 2001 Artist/producer David Newman "Soul Freedom" - 2001 Producer Al McKay "Live At Mt. Fuji Jazz Festival" - 2003 Keyboardist Al McKay "Live In Europe" - 2004 Keyboardist Korg Oasys "Love Embraces All" - 2005 Artist/producer Andre Delano "Full Circle" - 2005 Keyboardist/producer Ester Nicholson "Child Above The Sun" - 2006 Producer Ben Dowling/Mark Wagner "The Path Of Peace DualDisc" - 2007 Artist/producer Charles Holt "I Am" - 2007 Producer Ben Dowling "World Rising" - 2009 Artist/producer Film/Documentary/Multimedia Music United Nations 50th Anniversary - "A Place To Stand" - 1995 Score - Winner Of Golden Eagle Interactive Earth - 1997 Score Interdependence - 1998 Score Power Shift - 2003 Score Spiritual Liberation - 2009 Score read less