Aeoliah (pronounced: Ay-oh-lee-ya) was born and raised in
Germany until he was ten when he immigrated to the US with his parents
in 1960. He completed his university training at the University of New Mexico
in 1972, graduating cum laude with a degree in fine arts. His works of art have
been exhibited in world museums such as the Art Institute of Chicago and the
Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. During his early teens, he took formal music
lessons on the violin and played in his local high school orchestra. However,
his true love was always the piano. In 1979, while he was in process of completing
a painting entitled Music of the Spheres, he began to hear tonal harmonies that
corresponded to the healing tones and colors in the painting. He then got the idea
that light and sound are somehow linked as universal forms of energy, and this
in turn, became his inspiration and vision to create his first album, Inner Sanctum
in 1980. What started out as impressionistic, improvisational textures of
electronic and acoustic instruments blending together in rich harmonic
overtones of transparent, ethereal sound, later evolved into more structured
compositions which have since, become well known classics of the
New Age meditation & healing music genre.
