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Broadcaster and chart-topping choirmaster Gareth Malone releases Music for Healing, his brand-new album on Decca Records/Universal Music Canada - the country’s leading music company - featuring solo piano, choir and strings. Each piece is named after a month of the year, reflecting the essential role that the natural rhythms of time play in the process of healing and restoration. In recent years, Gareth has worked with communities that have been through very challenging times. 2018 was also personally challenging as it brought a busy filming schedule at a time of change: his grandfather passed away and his wife was expecting their third child. Musicmaking took on a new, therapeutic quality for Gareth, and Music for Healing came into being. Returning to his first instrument, the piano, Gareth wanted to combine its natural acoustic with the warmth of a choir and the energy of a string quartet to create a very special album: “After many years conducting choirs under extraordinary circumstances, for example the Military Wives choir, I felt that I had neglected my first love: writing music. I bought a new piano in 2016, began to practice in earnest and to compose. Around that time, I worked on the Choir for the Invictus Games, an incredible experience but an emotional one. I moved from that to work with friends of the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire: another life changing and life affirming project. Music for Healing is a personal journey through the year and is inspired by my own feelings about each month: birthdays of loved ones, marriages, funerals – all are in this music. This music helped me to heal.”