Hearing is believing: Rachel Flowers, the incredibly talented blind musician

In a world filled with noise, there is another sound worth hearing, and her name is Rachel Flowers.

She is a multi-talented instrumentalist and composer born in 1993, fifteen weeks prematurely, losing her eyesight as an infant due to Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP). Rachel began to play the piano at the age of two, endowed with perfect pitch, and became a student of the Southern California University of Music at four. There she also learnt to play the flute, mastered the Braille Music Code and made herself familiar with adaptive computer music applications. She is best known for her YouTube videos featuring her interpretations of music by Emerson, Lake & Palmer performed as a solo artist on the piano and organ.

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Award-winning producer/director Lorenzo DeStefano was so impressed that he followed Rachel for two years in order to shoot an amazing documentary showing her performing at various venues, playing Las Vegas, demonstrating her gift in schools and composing and playing her own music with a symphony orchestra.

Among the incredible musicians appearing with Rachel in the film are the legendary Stevie Wonder, Grammy winner rocker Dweezil Zappa, the late Progressive Rock icon Keith Emerson, Grammy winning jazz trumpeter Arturo Sandoval, the young Bay Area jazz pianist Taylor Eigsti, and 50 members of the Santa Barbara Youth Symphony performing Rachel’s original composition, At The End Of The Day.

Produced & directed by Lorenzo DeStefano
http://www.lorenzodestefano.com/
Licensed by Poorhouse, 2017