Zone Music Reporter (formerly ''New Age Reporter'') is a website tracking New Age, world, and instrumental music. The site features weekly playlist, monthly airplay charts, and album reviews. Premium services are also offered to artists and their management compiling custom airplay reports for that artist.
Awards
Past winners
The Zone Music Reporter sponsors the yearly ZMR Awards yearly (Formerly the ''NAR LifeStyle Music Awards'') since 2004. Past winners include
Marc Enfroy
Marc Maurice Enfroy (born 1965) is an American composer, songwriter
A songwriter is a musician who professionally composes musical compositions or writes lyrics for songs, or both. The writer of the music for a song can be called a compo ...
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Paul Adams,
Michael Dulin
Michael Dulin is an American pianist and composer. In addition to performing his original music, Dulin has appeared both solo and with orchestra in performances of classical music. He has also toured as keyboardist with the Motown group, the Tempt ...
, Jeff Oster,
Bill Leslie,
Jeff Pearce,
Áine Minogue
Áine Minogue (born 27 May 1977, Borrisokane, County Tipperary) is an Irish harpist, singer, arranger and composer, now living in the Boston area. She has recorded thirteen solo albums in styles generally categorized as Celtic, world, folk, spiri ...
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Peter Kater
Peter Kater (born 1958) is a German-born American pianist, composer and Grammy Award winner.
When he was four, he moved with his family from Germany to New Jersey. He studied classical piano at an early age. In 1977 when he was eighteen, Peter mo ...
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Will Ackerman
William Ackerman (born November 16, 1949) is an American guitarist and record producer who founded Windham Hill Records.
Career Early years
Ackerman was born in Palo Alto, California. His adoptive father was a professor of English at Stanfor ...
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Starr Parodi,
Ricky Kej
Ricky Kej (born 5 August 1981 - Dhaka, Bangladesh) is a multi-Grammy Award-winning Indian music composer and environmentalist. He has performed at venues in over 30 countries including at the United Nations headquarters in New York and Geneva. ...
,
Al Conti
Al Conti (born 9 March 1968) is a Grammy-nominated New Age composer, arranger, producer, and multi-instrumentalist.
Biography
Al Conti is Argentinian-born and currently resides in the United States. Since 2006, Conti has led an impressive music ...
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Michael DeMaria
Michael Brant DeMaria is an American psychologist, author, and musician.
Music
DeMaria's album ''Siyotanka'' was released in January 2009 debuting at #2 on the Zone Music Chart, a music airplay tracking agency. It climbed to #1 on the Chart in F ...
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Darlene Koldenhoven
Darlene Koldenhoven (born October 9, 1950) is an American musician. Darlene won a Grammy Award for her singing.
Career
Grammy recipient and is a three-time Grammy nominee for the lead soprano in Clare Fischer's 2+2.
She was the featured sopra ...
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Sangeeta Kaur
Sangeeta Kaur is a Grammy Award winning Vietnamese American classical/crossover, new age vocalist, composer, performing artist, and producer. In 2022, she received a Grammy Award for ''Best Classical Solo Vocal Album'' for ''Mythologies'', making ...
, Aomusic,
Kerani
Kerani (1968) is a Dutch composer, orchestrator, and producer of Hungarian heritage known for her sophisticated and meticulously crafted music, infused with classical influences. She is recognised for her contributions to various media project ...
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Fiona Joy
Fiona Joy Hawkins, known professionally as Fiona Joy, is an Australian vocalist and pianist. Her collaborations have included five albums produced by Will Ackerman. Her influences include George Winston, Michael Nyman, Chopin, and Mendelssoh ...
, and
Amethystium
Amethystium is an ambient/ electronica/ neoclassical music project created by Norwegian producer, composer and multi-instrumentalist Øystein Ramfjord. Under the Amethystium name, Ramfjord has released five full-length albums (''Odonata'', ''Aph ...
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Categories
* Album of the Year
* Best Ambient Album
* Best Celtic Album
* Best Contemporary Instrumental Album
* Best Cover Art
* Best Dance/Dub/Club Album
* Best Electronic Album
* Best Groove / Chill Album
* Best Holiday Album
* Best Instrumental Album (Acoustic)
* Best Instrumental Album (Piano)
* Best Native American Album
* Best Neo-Classical Album
* Best New Artist
* Best Piano Album - Solo
* Best Piano Album - with Instrumentation
* Best Relaxation/Meditation Album
* Best Vocal Album
* Best World Album
References
External links
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American record charts
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