Artist • Composer • Publisher • Recording Artist
Lisa Pressman is an accomplished pianist, vocalist, and composer. Lisa’s passion is to create vocally inspired melodies within sophisticated harmonies that lift the listener out of their everyday thoughts and concerns to guide them to be more open to God.
“My hope is that listeners will take away with them the sense of God’s beauty and peace that I feel is instilled within our music.”
~ Lisa Pressman
From her earliest days of studying the classical repertoire which evolved into her embracing all musical styles, Lisa brings to her artistic vision a deep and vast musical knowledge. Currently Lisa performs weekly as a solo pianist at a 5-star resort for Afternoon Tea, entertaining her audiences by playing everything from Cole Porter to Coldplay, both before and beyond. Lisa is also the pianist for her branch church overseeing all the musical details of each service. Every performance is infused with her love of music, her love of life and her love of God.
“Pressman has a way with the piano; it is an extension not only of her own body, but of her heart and soul too… ”
~ Steve Sheppard, One World Music
Lisa’s husband and frequent collaborator, pianist/vocalist Tim Ponzek, is also a composer of sacred vocal solos with sheet music available on Watchfire Music.
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Audience and Press Reviews
"...Pressman strikes an excellent balance between heart and mind. Revealing their creator's keen, analytical sensibility, the compositions are sophisticated in their construction, yet a vivid emotional dimension is expressed too. Her attempt to give authentic voice to nostalgia, joy, melancholy, serenity, and appreciation is successfully realized in the performances. That she's a vocalist as well as pianist is intimated by the vocal-like character of the songs' melodies, which one could imagine being sung as easily as played...."
"…this has to be one of the most ambient and calming solo piano albums I have listened to in years. Pressman has a way with the piano; it is an extension not only of her own body, but of her heart and soul too… there is sensitive tenderness of touch and a reflective construction here that is utterly sublime and very easy to listen to. Quiet Goodbye by Lisa Pressman is one of those albums that will drift into the open heart of the listener, set up home and never want to leave, and it shouldn’t, for this could with ease, be a musical home of sorts, and certainly a panacea that cures all ills, as music always does of course."
“The talents of this eminent musician are far reaching and equally balanced. The fact that Lisa is a singer as well as a pianist directly and beautifully impacts the sound quality and timbre of melodic construction. A deep sense of peace prevails and beckons elegant listeners in. Serenity and healing is always within her music and that will last us forever.”
“…. There is something so tranquil here, you’ll find yourself listening again and again…. What really strikes you throughout the entire album, by the way, is the peace, calmness, and restorative feeling of every composition. One can literally feel all stress melting away.”
