“International artist/educator, Colleen Adent, is well-known to concert goers, performing artists, and composer/arrangers. Audiences were utterly delighted with her dazzling virtuoso arrangements that featured works by Stephen Foster, favorites from the American Songbook, and cherished folk songs. Colleen brings to her work a distinctive amalgam of her high-end piano skills along with a gifted approach to arranging.” —Jill Timmons
I provide musically engaging, highly crafted arrangements for advancing students and professional musicians alike.
As a skilled and artful improviser, Colleen has a lifetime of experience as an arranger. Her arrangements have been commissioned by leading international vocal artists such as John and Mary Giger, Robert Hale, William Harness, and Janice Johnson and Jill Timmons. Her output also includes a number of popular choral arrangements. She has been commissioned to write piano duets, and performances of her two-piano, eight-hand arrangements have come to be a highlight of the Michael Allen Harrison Ten Grands shows.
She has recently established Lifesong Publications, providing refreshing, artistically satisfying piano and vocal arrangements for advancing students and professional musicians alike. These arrangements are available on Sheet Music Plus, as well as her website.
Her collection of hymn arrangements for solo piano, Fount of Every Blessing, has been published with Fred Bock Music Co. along with Above All Else, Your Name Be Praised, a volume of songs arranged for vocal duet with piano accompaniment written by Colleen and her husband, Nathan Adent. Together they have written over twenty vocal duets, some arranged for choir and piano accompaniment which have also been published by Fred Bock Music Co. As the Director of Music at Glenwood Church in Vancouver, WA, Colleen has arranged a plethora of music for use in the service, instrumental as well as vocal. She often plays for communion, fashioning thought-provoking arrangements that are tailored to the message and the moment.
One of Colleen’s favorite opportunities as a soloist is requesting notes and song choices from the audience, and in response crafts a thoughtful, cohesive, and yet spontaneous arrangement. On livestreams via YouTube, she brings this art form to life creating fresh, harmonically satisfying, and unique arrangements instantly at the requests of the viewers. Whatever the occasion, Colleen artistically spins tasteful and beautiful arrangements, appropriate for the moment at hand. Her extensive repertoire and knowledge allows her to perform stunning arrangements that will engage and enrapture the listener.
Endorsements
Just listen to that first note from Colleen and you are already being transported to another plane of existence. The sounds that emanate from Ms. Adent’s fingers are so lovingly and beautifully formed as she performs her arrangements of well-known melodies and her own compositions. Her virtuosity, her passion, her brilliance in improvisation as a classically trained pianist is so captivating, it draws one in, uplifts you…leaves you in a state of gratitude, thanking God for this amazing musician. This, is what I experience every single time I have the fortune of sharing the stage with Colleen, every single time I hear her perform!
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Colleen’s piano arrangements are beautiful, creative, and artistic. Suitable for preludes, offertories and postludes, and will enhance your worship service greatly! Her piano stylings lend themselves to developing musicians as well as those who are advanced. Not only are Colleen’s arrangements heartfelt, but in the wide field of published works, Colleen’s offerings stand out as technically accurate and thoughtfully crafted. I strongly encourage your use of these stellar works!
- Dr. Clayton Erb
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International artist/educator, Colleen Adent, is well-known to concert goers, performing artists, and composer/arrangers. I have worked with Colleen for many years, and most recently I commissioned six arrangements for voice and piano, featuring a broad range of American music. As part of a US tour, our audiences were utterly delighted with her dazzling virtuoso arrangements that featured works by Stephen Foster, favorites from the American Songbook, and cherished folk songs. Colleen brings to her work a distinctive amalgam of her high-end piano skills along with a gifted approach to arranging. I look forward to her next publication!
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Any time I play an arrangement from Colleen, it's an instant crowd pleaser with both classical and non-classical enthusiasts alike. Her music has helped me grow in technique and inspires me with new ideas. It's truly a gift that she shares these with the world.
- Angela K.
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Colleen’s musically and technically exquisite arrangements are straight from her heart and soul. She is one of my dearest friends, and when I play her arrangements I can feel her smiling through the music and sense her shining presence. Colleen’s beautiful craftsmanship displays the love of Christ, and has left and will continue to leave a stamp on the world that points us all upward to heaven through her gifts. What a treasure it is to create music with her, to play her God-given masterful arrangements, and to simply know her! Please take a moment to listen to her arrangements, and play them if you can! You will be profoundly blessed.
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I have struggled to find interesting arrangements for solo pieces I could play in church...until I came across Colleen's work. Her arrangements are interesting and moving, both to play and to listen to. They are clear to follow but challenge me--she utilizes lots of interesting rhythms and is creative melodically which forces me to really "read" the music rather than fake my way through her pieces. I look forward to more of her publishing work in the future!
– Julie H.
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Your arrangements are so beautiful and so unique. I appreciate that they are true to the original songs, yet so creative at the same time. One of the most important things to me about my favorite types of arrangements are that they are not "gimmicky" or too "flashy." There is a marriage between simplicity and difficulty that you have mastered without the "cheesy-ness" of a lot of arrangements I find from others out there!
- Jennie G.
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Your arrangement of “Over the Rainbow” was one of the best I ever heard!
- Helen, friend and attendee of Seattle’s Ten Grand’s concert, 2018
