AWARD-WINNING COMPOSER, LOUIS ANTHONY deLISE, RELEASES HIS SIXTH FULL ALBUM, "IRIDESCENCE"

Even in today's ever-burgeoning music industry, it is uncommon to find a serious composer with real pop music credentials or a pop musician with academic awards and published concert music. Composer Louis Anthony deLise is such a unique individual. He has arranged and conducted for R & B songstress, Patti LaBelle and last year was awarded a highly prestigious Fellowship from the New Jersey Council on the Arts. Now, composer deLise is releasing his sixth album of original compositions, "Iridescence," featuring Grammy®- winner, oboist, and composer, Nancy Rumbel along with cellist Vivian Barton Dozor of the Opera Philadelphia Orchestra, John McMurtery, flutist with the Las Vagas Philharmonic, and Celtic World Orchestra guitarist, Bruce McFarland.

The album includes nine new compositions, with one, the title track, "Iridescence," cowritten with Nancy Rumbel. While most critics classify deLise's music as "New Age" or "neoclassical," deLise prefers, "post-genre," as his recordings usually include elements of pop, classical, New Age, and West Coast cool jazz of the 1960s.

"I'm just as likely to include an improvised piano solo as I am to adhere to the strict rules of tonal voice-leading," deLise says.

Born in Philadelphia and reared in rural Bucks County Pennsylvania, deLise earned a doctorate in composition, taught in the music departments of several colleges, and worked as a support musician in orchestras, accompanying Lou Rawls, Dianna Ross, Tom Jones, George Shearing, Henry Mancini, Dave Brubeck, Luciano Pavarotti. deLise has arranged and or produced on recordings for Miss LaBelle, William DeVaughn, and the band, Halestorm.

Janet Mawdesley from Blue Wolf Reviews said, "Iridescence is intimate, intricate, charming, and delights and entertains the very soul." Kathy Parsons of Mainly Piano called the album, "Warm, reflective, and often very soothing. . .a perfect anecdote to the chaos the world is currently enduring." Bjørn Tore Fasmer in the New Age Music Guide says, "'Iridescence' will for sure become a modern classic."
Composer Louis Anthony deLise resides in Cherry Hill, New Jersey with his wife, Theresa. Most of their adult children live in the Philadelphia region.

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Get the album "Iridescence" here: https://orcd.co/ladlirid
Release Date: August 16, 2024
Official artist website: https://www.louisanthonydelise.com
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