MUSIC THAT IS ROOTED IN NATURE.
“Her music melds a passion for the environment with knowledge of the folk traditions of America, Bali, and Japan to form a unique voice from the Pacific Northwest.”
- Oregon ArtsWatch
lyrical · compelling · synergistic · illuminative
Wildfires and Waterways
The quartet created gentle, flowing lines that made it easy to visualize scenes of a watery journey to the Pacific Ocean. Fluttering, buzzing and glissandos conjured the wildlife, landscape and rhythm of the river.
- Oregon Arts Watch, feature review, James Bash
a “stunning album,... a mix of calm and focus… interesting, colorful and evocative.”
- National Flute Association Quarterly summer issue
Press
“Grossman’s environmental music poignantly expresses the mission and values of Columbia Riverkeeper, where she is composer-in-residence.”
— Oregon ArtsWatch
“The effect of the musically-immersive experience was mesmerizing; all present were clearly enraptured by the sounds of wind instruments mingled with the resonance of the natural surroundings”
— East Portland News
This concert offers “a sacred sense of place, and the ways music–and musicians–can find and support the meanings inherent in that sacred sense of place. It is through the act of naming, honoring, and protecting these sacred places that they remain sacred."
— Oregon ArtsWatch on Deena’s 2023 concert “Flutes in the Garden”
