Conscious Evolution - Santa Barbara
	Global Resonance Network

Growing up on a farm in the Flint Hills of Kansas gave me a deep love of nature. I remember taking long solitary walks along the creek and in the hilly pasture of our land. I sometimes imagined that the trees were singing to me. The clouds in the sky seemed almost like living creatures as they gently shape shifted across the sky. I was surrounded by a family of musicians and by the sound of music, and began piano lessons at the age of six. I also studied clarinet, playing first chair in band and orchestra throughout high school, and sang soprano in choral groups and as a soloist. I majored in voice at the School of Fine Arts, University of Kansas, in Lawrence, KS, and then studied piano with Nigel Coxe, receiving a music degree from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, MA.

When I became aware of the terrible injustices suffered by the American Indians, I began working to restore treaties to the American Indians, in Boston, MA, and Woodstock, NY. I worked for Lew Gurwitz, a co-defender for Leonard Peltier, and helped to raise support for The Longest Walk which convened in Washington, D.C. in July 1978. I was a co-founder of the Eightfold Council, based on the spiritual and governmental principles of the Iroquois Confederacy (Six Nations). This work and its association with Oren Lyons, chief of the Onondaga, the Firekeepers of the Six Nations, wise elders among the original American people and world leaders, educators, historians and scientists who participated at Eightfold Council meetings gave me a different perspective on the history of the United States. I believe that we would have an entirely different technology and culture today if our government leaders considered the well-being of all living beings now and for generations to come, one of the core principles of the Six Nations.

I began writing songs about animals - whales, dolphins, eagles, buffalo, wolves and more - and the natural world. As “Octavia Neptune,” I sang these songs, accompanying myself with autoharp and backing tapes as an opening act on Daevid Allen’s U.S. tour in 1980. These songs have been recently remastered at Tantrum Studios in Montecito, CA.

For two decades, while these life experiences were germinating and laying groundwork for my current occupation as a serious composer of classical music for acoustic grand piano, I was occupied with raising my baby daughter, teaching piano with a full schedule of students, accompanying choral groups and solo artists, and working as music director in churches and in children’s theater.

I also studied vibrational healing, became a Reiki Master in 1992, and earned a doctorate from the American Institute of Holistic Theology. My main interest in healing is healing the earth.

In 2003, I released my first CD of acoustic piano music, PIANORAMA, and in 2006, my second CD, PIANORAMA II: Ode to the Satellite, recorded in Albuquerque, NM, by Philip Vaandrager.

Since March 2004, I have lived in Santa Barbara, CA, where I had resided nearly a year while traveling and touring as a singer/songwriter the early 1980s. In 2006, I met Sjoerd Koppert, owner of Tantrum Records and Studios, who began recording my music for acoustic grand piano at Tantrum Studios in Montecito, CA. Tantrum Records is announcing its first release of my acoustic piano music, the album Tracks on the Moon. The music for Tracks on the Moon commemorates an epic achievement and a time of great hope for humanity, as it was perceived by millions of people around the world.