Composer Debra Kaye’s debut Ravello release, And So It Begins, catapults the listener into her deep universe of sound – an expedition down one NYC street and up another, through the warp and weft of interior landscapes, to Taos Mountain, on a journey through a dream, a dying, a love – as she blends her classical roots with traces of jazz, pop, world music, the pulse of city rhythms, and the expansiveness of spacious landscapes. Ms. Kaye is on the faculty of the Mannes College Preparatory Division. She has received awards from ASCAP, Meet the Composer and Mannes College of Music, among others.