The Clavinova Travels the Road to Shalom

When Shelli Stuck Pierce was a little girl practicing her piano lessons at night, she never dreamed she would someday produce a CD of religious music of her own.

After years of practice, her hard work has finally paid off. The result is “The Road to Shalom,” a religiously inspired CD of instrumental music which Pierce recorded entirely on the Clavinova. The CD contains contemporary as well as traditional Christian music, utilizing the Clavinova’s full range of instrument and orchestral sounds.

Pierce chose to record her CD on the Clavinova for its voicing and its ability to layer several instrumental performances over the initial keyboard performance. She perfected the piano voice orchestration and then mixed the peaceful sounds of the English and French horns, followed by strings, orchestra, and finally the xylophone and sax.

As she built up the music, instrument by instrument, Pierce continuously played back each song from the disk until she had what she liked. She then sent it to Herald House Publishing in Independence, MO, where she was featured as the main selection of the month in September.

Shelli Stuck Pierce used the soothing sounds of Clavinova to record “The Road to Shalom” in its entirety.

A pianist at heart, Pierce is no stranger to the Clavinova. As an elementary school music teacher, she uses the CVP35 as accompaniment to her choral and strings students. She also plays on the Clavinova CVP59 at the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints where she is music director, pianist, and organist.

At home, Pierce plays her own CVP59 in the evenings to her children, to help them fall asleep. After they’ve gone to bed, she slips on the headphones and plays into the night.

The love for music, and the Clavinova, runs in the family. Still loving the music at age 72, Pierce’s father uses the guide lamps on his CVP96 to play along with Frank Sinatra’s “This Will Be Our Shining Hour.”

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