Rachel Flowers

Rachel Flowers was born on December 21, 1993 near San Diego, California. She discovered the piano at the age of 2 1/2 and fell immediately and hopelessly in love. By the age of 3 she was working out pieces by Bach and Beethoven by ear, and at 4 years old was enrolled at the Southern California Conservatory of Music. When Rachel was nine years old, she was on track to become a concert pianist when a family friend put Emerson, Lake & Palmer’s The Endless Enigma on the turntable. In that moment her destiny was forever changed.. Ten years later, on September 8, 2013 at the Typhoon Restaurant in Santa Monica, Rachel met Keith Emerson for the first time. He was conducting the Orchestre Surreal in rehearsal for his upcoming conducting debut. Afterward Keith gave Rachel his baton, which now claims a treasured spot in her studio.
Rachel has practiced and performed pieces by Emerson for many years and many of them have been put on youtube, where she has built a huge following. It was therefore obvious that she should participate in the Emerson Tribute concert at El Rey theatre in 2016, and there she met with Terje Mikkelsen. Under his direction, she performed at the Emerson Memorial concert in Birmingham in 2017, and as a result invited to participate in the Beyond the Stars project.
Rachel Flowers is featured in the full-length documentary Hearing Is Believing (2016). Several of her original compositions plus collaborations with Arturo Sandoval and Dweezil Zappa are included on the Hearing Is Believing Soundtrack Album (2017). Rachel has two solo albums, Listen (2016), and Going Somewhere (2018), and a collaboration EP with Michael Sadler of Saga (2018).

August 2018