Gary Sill's work evokes the spiritual qualities in the elements surrounding him. The heart of this music is piano improvisation, drawn from the artist's skills as a lifetime performer and as a composer for film, theatre and video.

Over years of producing his improvisational recordings and study within the Sufi tradition, he has come to understand how the mystical aspects of his music magnetize listeners.

His compositions express the rich textures of the natural world to create an emotional landscape: one with stillness in rhythms and activity in ambience.

The Sufi master, Hazrat Inayat Khan, spoke of life in all its aspects as '…one single music; and the real spiritual attainment is to attune oneself to the harmony of this perfect music'. Sill's music creates a way to invoke this shared aspiration of humans - that we might meet for a time in such a setting.

Sonya Lea