Reviews:
Ever Ever On (2010)
When Evening Falls (2007)
Bio:
Tom Salvatori
Nylon String Guitar Composer, Chicago, IL USA
Iris Litchfield
Grand Piano Composer, Bromley, UK
Record Label and Publishing: Salvatori Productions, Inc. (ASCAP)
Website: http://www.salvatoriproductions.com
Salvatori Productions, Inc. (established in 1995) is a record label specializing in quiet and minimal ensemble music that features original compositions recorded with real players on real instruments at all times. Tom Salvatori is the guitar composer for the CD releases and also manage licensing and publishing. He is partners in the business with his brother Mike, who arranges and manages all studio production. Mike is also a renowned composer in his own right - a 30 year veteran Chicago jingle writer (Flintstones Kids) and specialized in composing for video games (HALO series).
Salvatori Productions signed grand piano composer Iris Litchfield (Bromley UK) in 2004 to feature her works on CD releases. Iris is a career mathematician turned piano composer, and her timeless and tender music is now for the first time being recorded and released rightly to be shared with a worldwide audience.
Awards/Recognition: Two of our recent CD releases, Late Night Guitar (Salvatori) and When Evening Falls (Salvatori and Litchfield, arrangements by John Catchings), made their debut at #2 on the NAR Top 100 Radio Play Charts. Late Night Guitar was named Winner of the 2002 Children's Music Web Award in the Classic Recording for Children category. When Evening Falls was named Winner of a NAR Lifestyle Music Award as Best Neo-Classical Album of 2007 and was featured on several Top10 - Best of 2007 music reviewer lists in the contemporary instrumental music category, and received a review and highest recommendation on MainlyPiano.com.
2010 brings the release of Ever Ever On (Salvatori and Litchfield) - the most ambitious project release for Salvatori Productions to date - a new 2-CD set that presents new compositions on nylon string guitar (Salvatori) and grand piano (Litchfield) – and again featuring the warm and tender string arrangements of John Catchings…this time in full-on chamber string ensemble (with real instruments and real players)… produced and recorded in Nashville, TN.
