Sharon West

Hi and thanks so much for stopping by my website!
Welcome to Fall (at least here in the northern hemisphere)!  

Like I had said in my summer post, I am a huge advocate of continuous learning….and I am continuing to take a number of online classes currently in Film Scoring, Music Composition and Production Music….I am very pleased with how a number of my new songs are sounding so will keep you apprised of progress with them and when I might be able to produce a new CD (hopefully by spring 2024).

I recently…


Hi and Welcome to Spring (at least in the northern hemisphere).  I hope the weather is as nice by you as it is here in the Chicago area….the birds are chirping early every morning, the buds are slowly emerging as if from a long slumber, and the flowers are starting to break through the ground to search for the sun once again.  The circle of life continues endlessly…..  

I have been keeping myself very busy over the (long) winter by working on a number of new pieces, and studying all kinds of new music….I…

Hi there....Since I have wrapped up descriptions of all the tracks from latest CD, Lake of Dreams, last month I thought it might be kind of interesting to actually write something more truly blog-is this month!   

As I have described on my Home Page in the past, I am taking quite a few online music courses these days along the lines of actual music production as well as true composition courses (more in the cinematic composing vein).  I thoroughly enjoy these courses as we study a number of scores from…

This month’s discussion of tracks from my latest album, Lake of Dreams, is discussing what I was thinking about while composing Tracks 11 (Room for Hope) and 12 (Wherever You Go)!  In writing this blog today, I find both of these tracks have a common theme of Hope for the future and being Optimistic.  In today’s world, that may seem somewhat naive and far-fetched, but we do have many things to be grateful for, even in the worst of times. 

Track 11, Room for Hope, is a song about sometimes feeling a sense of…

This month’s discussion of tracks from my latest album, Lake of Dreams, is discussing what I was thinking about while composing Tracks 9 (Elegy and Hope) and 10 (Travels in Time)!  In writing this blog today, I find it a strange twist of serendipity that I am talking about these 2 tracks that have some things in common with the Elgar Variations that I discuss on my home page this month, at least from an emotional standpoint. 

Track 9, Elegy and Hope, is about dealing with loss in our lives (Elegy) and yet…

May 2022

This month’s discussion of tracks from my latest album, Lake of Dreams, is discussing what I was thinking about while composing Tracks 7 (The Language of the Soul) and 8 (Meditato)!  I would call these 2 tracks my most “spiritual” on this album, as they encompass some truly esoteric but introspective ideas. 

Track 7, The Language of the Soul, draws on the idea that our souls, who we are in our deepest selves, really doesn’t convey information in the same way we communicate to others in our physical…

April 2022 

This month’s discussion of tracks from my latest album, Lake of Dreams, is discussing what I was thinking about while composing Tracks 5 (Angels of the Night) and 6 (On Wings of Love)!   

On Track 5, Angels of the Night, I was thinking about a couple different things….one particular area was the selfless and kind service of all of our courageous and compassionate doctors and nurses helping people who have gotten ill during the Covid epidemic, all around the world.  In many ways, they truly are…

I’ve always been interested in what artists were thinking about as they were creating a piece of music, or painting or dance, or whatever creative piece of art they created.  So I have decided to share what I was thinking about while creating each of the songs on my latest album, “Lake of Dreams.”   I am up to tracks 3 and 4 on the new album, so here’s what I was thinking about while creating these pieces: 

Track 3: Hidden Worlds 
The world is full of mysteries…whether they be things outside of what we can…

I thought I’d start blogging again as I’ve got a lot of stuff I’d like to share these days… 

So after finishing my latest album, I thought it might be a nice idea to share what I was thinking about when working on each of the songs, although this obviously should in no way influence whatever you think or feel when you listen to any of the songs.   

This goes all the way back to the mid-1990s when I went on a trip to Italy with a couple friends for about a week or so…..We were in Florence and trying to see…

Happy Holidays to you!  I hope this note finds you well this year….this year has felt like something out of a Lemony Snicket novel for me....a series of Fortunate and Unfortunate events (repeat as needed, lol!).  The first part of the year was busy working on music and some consulting projects when I had a serious fall at my health club (just walking and tripped, no kidding) and ended up breaking my left shoulder and arm in 4 places … so I ended up having to have surgery for that and about a 3 month…