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Canyon Concierto Maestro Romayne Wheeler Pianist, Composer, Artist, and Poet
Romayne Wheeler, a native of California, began to write music at the age
of seven. He spent 14 years of his childhood in Central America due to his
parent's work, orienting his style of composition toward the Latin
American folklore with its bright affirmative melodies and multiple
rhythms. After graduating from the Monterrey Bay Academy, Wheeler studied
at the Salzburg Mozarteum and at the Vienna Conservatory of Music. He has
performed on the piano in many of the great concert halls of the world,
and eventually he knew there had to be more to life than just becoming a
musical robot. The New York Times, in an article on Wheeler,
described how the impulse to get away from it all brought him, and
eventually his grand piano, to the cliff-side dwelling he now calls home.
Wheeler hired a dump truck, lined it with 15 mattresses and innumerable
potato sacks, and slowly hauled out his 1917 Steinway & Sons grand piano.
It took 17 hours to go the 80 miles from Creel, but miraculously, the
piano arrived without a scratch. He has lived in Cerro Colorado on the rim
of Batopilas Canyon since the early 1980s.
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