New Horizons – The Music of Steve Hackett (Genesis)

This musical project comes from my passion for music Progressive of the late 60s and early 70s. In my opinion Progressive Rock is a highly creative and important movement in contemporary music. It blends rock with classical music – notably with Strawinsky, Bartok, Debussy, Bach and Beethoven – with Blues and with Jazz. The core of my creative idea is to make transcriptions of selected Progressive Rock compositions adapting them for Pipe Organ and Steinway 9Grand Piano, to enhance the musical qualities of the compositions and to give them a deeper acoustic feeling, closer to Classical Music, with the breath-taking beauty of these magnificent music instruments - the D274 9 Steinway Grand Piano and the Ruffati Pipe Organ of the Canadian Church in Rome. This album is a tribute to Steve Hackett, composer and guitarist, born in 1950 in London.