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NEW AGE REPORTER review by RJ Lannon
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WIND AND WIRE REVIEW by Bill Binkleman
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WIND AND WIRE REVIEW by Michael Debbage
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"CRAIG URQUHART takes you even deeper into the possibilities of solo piano music... subtle as moonlight reflecting on ocean waves, yet [retaining] a thoughtfulness and elegance that betray [its] classical origins."
    LINDA KOHANOV, Pulse Magazine

"One of the finest independent pianists in America."
    BRADLEY TORREANO, All Music Guide

"One of New Age's most transcendant voices"
    PETER MANZI, New Age Voice

"Wonderful!"
    RICHARD MAURO, Sacred World Music

"A beautiful addition to the collection of a fan who love's new age piano music."
    JONATHAN WIDRAN, All Music Guide

"Craig Urquhart's On This Wondrous Sea was especially effective."
    ALLAN KOZINN, The New York Times

“...notable for sensitive and knowing settings of the Whitman text.”
    DAVID HALL, Stereo Review

"... simply excellent music... an exceptional CD!”
    NORVEL TROSST, Producer, "Soundspace"
    KPBX-FM, Spokane, WA.

“...sensitive piano playing"
    STEPHEN HILL, Hearts of Space

“... peaceful and well performed.”
    CYNDY MOFFETT
    KMXT-FM, Kodiak, AK

“... beautiful, deep and beautiful... and sometimes like a prayer.”
    KAZUKO AMANO
    Concert pianist, Tokyo

“... a visionary pianist.”
    FREDDIE BLUE FOX
    WDST-FM, Woodstock, NY

“I’m a big fan!”
    LOUISE HIGMAN
    WUOT-FM, Knoxville, TN

"CRAIG URQUHART a truly gifted composer... his tonal approach is not merely 'sincere' , but genuinely moving, with a private beauty of its own."
    LEONARD BERNSTEIN

"The new piano solo album by Michigan-born Craig Urquhart will please fans of best-selling New Age pianists like Jim Brickman. With solid classical credentials, including a five-year stint as musical assistant to the eminent composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein, Mr. Urquhart walks in streams but his eyes are on the stars. "The Astronomer," a deeply tranquil portrait in sound of the evening sky, envelops and comforts us. Mr. Urquhart explains that "nature is what gives us music." Leonard Bernstein once accurately praised Mr. Urquhart's music for its "deceptive simplicity and honesty," calling it "genuinely moving with a private beauty of its own."
    Benjamin Ivry - Spirituality and Health Magazine, Jan 1, 2005

"In the midst of all this were short gems by Craig Urquhart.... Urquhart's settings of Walt Whitman poetry were conservative but original, faithful to the texts and appropriate for a singer of Slattery's talent."
     Joseph Dalton, Times Union, Albany, NY