Music
Peter-Anthony Togni "Nocturne"
RELEASE DATE: OCTOBER 31, 2025
Originally an improvisation by Peter-Anthony Togni on his album “Piano Alone” (2013), Nocturne is an ethereal and expansive contemplation drawn from classical and jazz influences. Guiding the listener from spacious quietude to tender sweetness to impassioned outpourings of sorrow and resolve, it radiates compassionate humanity through Jennifer King’s exquisite expressive voice.
Nocturne was transcribed in 2022 by Peter-Anthony specially for Jennifer, and was intimately recorded at Jennifer’s home in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
“This Nocturne glows and I love its warmth. It will be released just before the November super moon, as the season turns towards winter. I think of the moon and Peter-Anthony’s Nocturne as quiet companions for this shifting time, connecting us to our inner selves as we brave the longer nights together.”
Souvenance
RELEASE DATE: APRIL 25, 2025
Jennifer King’s solo piano album Souvenance is a collection of nocturnes, romances, and meditations grounded in the romantic era and branching into the 20th century. Including rarely heard music by Ethel Smyth, Clara Wieck-Schumann’s beloved "Notturno", and Jennifer’s own meditation on Joni Mitchell’s "Blue", the album is an introspective journey rich with heartbreak, hope, strength, and tenderness. Recorded in Jennifer’s living room, Souvenance invites the listener to sit on the piano bench beside her for a deeply personal experience of the music. Souvenance’s composers are all women, most of whom faced formidable gender-based barriers to having their voices heard.
1. Méditation, Op.31 — Mel Bonis | 2:52
2. Romance sans Paroles, Op. 56 — Mel Bonis | 2:11
3. Soirées musicales, Op.6 No.2 Notturno in F major — Clara Wieck-Schumann | 4:54
4. Nocturne (Kanon in Gegenbewegung) — Ethel Smyth | 2:49
5. Notturno in G minor, H-U 337 — Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel | 5:15
6. 6 Romances sans Paroles, Op.76 No.1 Souvenance — Cécile Chaminade | 2:24
7. Nocturne in B major, Op.165 — Cécile Chaminade | 4:24 (single)
8. 6 Romances sans Paroles, Op.76 No.6 Méditation — Cécile Chaminade | 5:11
9. Caprice II Nocturne “Gute Ruh”, E.96 — Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté | 7:22
10. Jazz Nocturne — Dana Suesse | 3:49
11. Blue — Joni Mitchell, arr. Jennifer King | 4:43
Cécile Chaminade: Nocturne in B major, Op. 165
RELEASE DATE: MARCH 7, 2025
In honour of International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month, I’m sharing Cécile Chaminade’s beautiful piece, Nocturne in B major, Op. 165. You can find it wherever you stream your music.
"Locked in Orbit" by Ken Shorley
RELEASED; January 11, 2023
Locked in Orbit is a “deep space” piece, with the overlapping phrases representing different slow-moving things in orbit (planets, meteors, what have you) which circle around a star in different lengths of time. Also, the static/still quality of it in some way reflects the composer’s lockdown brain… the feeling that things are motionless and yet somehow still moving slowly around… something?
This work was composed as a gift to Jennifer by composer and percussionist Ken Shorley or Zhorli.
O Mistress Moon: Canadian Edition
Release Date: January 14, 2022
ECMA winning Classical Album of the Year for 2023, O Mistress Moon: Canadian Edition is the latest release by solo pianist, Jennifer King. This album is a sequel to her successful earlier recording of the same name, now as a special all-Canadian version. The project features twelve contemporary Canadian piano works selected by King for their relationship to the environment, especially of the moon, outer space, and the night.
“This collection is designed to offer introspection, to provoke thought and appeal to those looking for a musical meditative journey through calmness, but with a wide emotional scope… there is a therapeutic bent to its sound scape, with the intention of helping to ease stress during the current world pandemic,” says King of the music she chose for the recording.
King has linked each of the compositions to a monthly full moon, connecting both its name in both folkloric and the Mi’kmaq name. As the names of each full moon relates to nature and the changing seasons, the music has been partnered each month by both the composition’s name, intention, and its overall atmosphere.
Twilight Hour
Released: October 30, 2020
Twilight Hour: Collected Stories for Piano, a collection of twelve short piano works inspired by fairy tales. The recording features an accompanying video by multimedia filmmaker Katrina Westin.
The twelve tracks on Twilight Hour range from dreamy magical-sounding works like two Preludes by Dmitry Kabalevsky to the energetic Fox Dance by Hungarian composer Léo Weiner.
Doolittle: Minute Études “Excerpts” (Live)
Released: August 16, 2019
Doolittle: Minute Études “Excerpts” (Live) features excerpts from a series of piano pieces by composer Emily Doolittle. Each piece explores one idea, whether it’s an interval, a rhythmic pattern, or an effect.
O Mistress Moon
Released: July 20, 2018
O Mistress Moon is a collection of two centuries of Nocturnes and night inspired music from composers Chopin, Britten, Satie, Debussy, Barber, Poulenc, Schumann, Scriabin, Respighi, and Juno award winning composer Derek Charke. The music promises to transport you to the moon and back on a peaceful, thought-provoking journey.
O Mistress Moon: Canadian Edition
“In the Falling Dark 1” by Derek Charke
February 12, 2021
Snow Moon/ Snow Blinding (Folkloric/Mi’kmaq)
Composed by Derek Charke in 2014 as a commission by the Muzikon series for pianist Barbara Pritchard. The work is about the time of day known as dusk or twilight. In French this hour is known as ‘Entre Chien et Loup’ (translated as between dog and wolf). The mood begins from a recurring chorale to shimmering, repeated chord patterns opening to brooding moments and spaciously improvised solemn reflections.