Heather Pinkham (@heatherpinkham)

Copy of Successful performance of Nowhere and No-When in Las Cruces, New Mexico! On March 29th and 30th, 2025, Heather Pinkham performed her own piano concerto, Nowhere and No-When, with the Las Cruces Symphony Orchestra in New Mexico, USA!

Copy of Successful performance of Nowhere and No-When in Las Cruces, New Mexico!

On March 29th and 30th, 2025, Heather Pinkham performed her own piano concerto, Nowhere and No-When, with the Las Cruces Symphony Orchestra in New Mexico, USA!

04.03.2026 11:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Playing on this nice Kawai today at 13.30 at De Lichtkring in Amersfoort! If you're in the neighborhood feel free to swing by!

#pianistsofinstagram #pianistslife #kawai #pianist #pianomusic #concert #amersfoort #musicianlife

15.02.2026 12:14 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I wanted to share that I've been accepted for the NES Artist Residency in Iceland for the month of January! It will be cold but hopefully also very inspiring to work on several commissions while I am there for the month. I will try to get a pic of the Northern Lights!

#Residency #ComposersLife

27.12.2025 10:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Still buzzing from the Concertgebouw performance with @Ralph van Raat and the Rotterdam Philharmonisch Orkest. If you’re curious to hear my piano concerto, you can hear it back on NPO Klassiek. My piece starts at 32'10"! www.npoklassiek.nl/uitzendingen...

#Concertgebouw #NPOKlassiek

28.10.2025 10:02 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Interview for Intrada Magazine about the upcoming Dutch premiere of my piece, Nowhere and No-When! The premiere takes place this Friday in De Doelen at 20:00, then the next day again for NTR ZaterdagMatinee at 14:15! Saturday's performance will also be live broadcast on NPO Klassiek!

#composer

02.10.2025 11:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

In the lead-up to the Dutch premiere of my piano concerto, Nowhere and No-When, with Ralph van Raat as soloist and the Rotterdam Philharmonic for the ZaterdagMatinee in the Concertgebouw, I had an extensive interview with Thea Derks for De Nieuwe Muze! theaderks.wordpress.com/2025/09/08/c...

09.09.2025 10:15 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Everywhere and for All-Time Everywhere and for All-Time is a piece that explores the connections between the cosmos, modern scientific findings, and ancient Hindu cosmology. Recently, cosmologists have come up with a theory that differs from the Big Bang: they call it the “Big Bounce Theory.” Rather than our universe starting from a singular point before time existed, the Big Bounce Theory posits that time and space have always existed and always will exist, with the universe going through cycles of contraction and expansion; in a sense cycles of “death” and “rebirth.” Therefore, the Big Bounce marks the time when another universe died and gave birth to our current universe. This modern scientific thinking is perfectly in line with ancient Hindu cosmology from as long ago as the 15th century BCE. According to Hinduism, time is infinite with a cyclic universe, where the current universe was preceded and will be followed by an infinite number of universes. The different states of the universe are cyclically created and destroyed by the Holy Trinity: Brahma, the creator, Krishna, the preserver, and Shiva, the destroyer. As the soloist, Maya serves as all three at various stages in the piece. According to Hindu teachings, we are currently in the fourth and last yuga (world age) of the universe, Kali Yuga. This is believed to be an age when virtues are at their worst, being right before the destruction of the current universe which then ushers in the first phase of the cycle again. The cyclical nature of the universe’s death and rebirth are represented in several ways in the piece: the first being a certain rhythmic structure, or tala (5,2,3,4) that comes back throughout the piece. The second being the palindromic structure of the piece: it ends exactly as it began, but in reverse. As inspiration for the piece, the composer made use of the following text which alludes to the cyclical nature of the universe according to Hindu belief: From Fervour kindled to its height Eternal Law and Truth were born: Thence was the Night produced, and thence the billowy flood of sea arose. From that same billowy flood of sea the Year was afterwards produced, Ordainer of the days nights, Lord over all who close the eye. Dhātar, the great Creator, then formed the sun and moon exactly as before. He formed in order Heaven and Earth, the regions of the air, and light. Rig Veda 10.190.1-3, c. 1500-1200 BCE Heather Pinkham   *The electronic sound at the beginning of Movement II is a simulation of the Big Bang, created by (c) John G. Cramer – 2013 of the University of Washington.

Everywhere and for All-Time

Everywhere and for All-Time is a piece that explores the connections between the cosmos, modern scientific findings, and ancient Hindu cosmology. Recently, cosmologists have come up with a theory that differs from the Big Bang: they call it the “Big Bounce Theory.”…

02.09.2025 19:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Before Sunrise This piece was a commission for someone who had lost his sister, Kayly, at a young age to drugs and alcohol. The piece was written as a way of celebrating her life - her positive sides as well as her destructive sides, and shows her different stages of life from childhood to adulthood.

Before Sunrise

This piece was a commission for someone who had lost his sister, Kayly, at a young age to drugs and alcohol. The piece was written as a way of celebrating her life - her positive sides as well as her destructive sides, and shows her different stages of life from childhood to…

01.09.2025 17:29 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It was so much fun recording my CD in the @Zeeuwse Concertzaal! It was wonderful to collaborate with the amazing @Ralph van Raat for my two piano compositions, and intense but deeply rewarding to record these compositions.

CD to be released most likely in early spring! Stay tuned for updates!

19.08.2025 09:02 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Liminality (Main Title Theme) This is the main theme I composed for my conceptual game project, "Liminality." The game concept explores a post-singularity world where a protagonist, after trying to escape a life of total technolo

Lately I've been mucking about with some electronic music, something a little different from what I usually write. If you're curious or looking for something to zone out to, head over to my SoundCloud and give it a listen!

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08.07.2025 09:01 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Practicing one of my pieces, Crooked Still, for the upcoming CD recording with my compositions with Zefir Records! I might look a bit bored but I swear I am not! Just hot and tired 🫠. Release day is still a ways off, but I will keep you posted here!

#pianistsofinstagram #pianistlife #composers

01.07.2025 09:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

After performance

At piano with orchestra

At piano with orchestra, close up

Outside of SpacePort America, New Mexico

I forgot to post here about my performance with the Las Cruces Symphony, where I performed my own piano concerto, Nowhere and No-When!! Also, a few pictures of Spaceport America, where I got to tour Virgin Galactic! It was a great time!

#pianists #composers #composerslife #pianistslife #lascruces

28.06.2025 10:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It was wonderful to perform at the MuziekSalon Spronk at the Nieuwe Veste in Breda with Rogier de Pijper for his Flute Colors Stedenproject! We performed my piece, Before Sunrise, among other newly composed works! #composer #newmusic #pianist #contemporaryclassical #flute #breda

06.02.2025 11:17 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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