Hello and Welcome. Pianist/author/composer/food lover……………………….. I hope this glimpse into my artistic and music life will enlighten people, just a little, into my, albeit personal, persona. My musical life started in earnest early in life, during my ‘high-chair’ years. I would often fill glasses with differing amounts of water and discover new sounds, new notes, I would have been 3 or 4 years of age. My mother started to take me to piano lessons at age 5 or 6. I was never forced or anything like that, just a profound interest in the instrument, even at that early stage. Growing up I continued to discover new musical adventures, continued (some) lessons , school musicals, high school rock bands, and the like.. early childhood performances…. in the end, create my individual musical being, my unique slant of musicality. I have performed in Melbourne now for almost 3 decades, in a myriad of musical guises, performing, teaching, recording….. but predominantly as a solo pianist in many of Melbourne’s hotels, clubs, bars and restaurants and currently have been performing @ Crown Casino, Melbourne for almost 12 years. I released my first music cd in 1996, a 17 track instrumental cd under the working title “Rain in my Bathtub”, In 2006 my first cookbook was published, Italian cooking with an accompanying original 11 track music cd……. “PLAYING WITH FOOD”, with my father on the cover, a celebrated chef in Melbourne for nearly 4 decades. Sadly he succumbed to cancer only very recently. My publisher Mark Zocchi (Brolga Publishing, Australia) believed in my work invested his faith, time and importantly, monies , I am very grateful. At the end of 2008, my second (also through Brolga) was released, more Italian cooking with another accompanying original 17 track music cd titled “MUSIC TO DINE FOR”. Currently I am back in the studio remastering ( and a little tidy up) of my first cookbook cd “Playing with Food”, I will reissue it as as separate CAFEcd in 2009/10…I will also reissue my debut cd “Rain in my Bathtub” ……Book three is currently being discussed with my publisher…. with progress and luck, inspiration and hard work I will have it (and cd number 4) on the shelves in 2010……please stay tuned!!! thank you very muchly for listening www.galliano.com.au