Sony targets crossover for Mulligan. (Classical news).

Simon Mulligan, who can list such luminaries of the classical music world as Yehudi Menuhin, Alexis Weissenberg and Lynn Harrell among his mentors, could be on the verge of a successful crossover career with the release of his debut solo album under Sony Classical's UK imprint. Mulligan's (pictured) Piano rolls out on April 7, its contents reflecting the breadth of the musician's tastes and enduring desire to break down conventional genre boundaries.

The opening track recalls the British artist's collaboration with leading Hollywood composer Michael Kamen on the Band Of Brothers OST. Other tracks include the Aria from Johann Sebastian Bach's Goldberg Variations, Mulligan arrangements of Eric Clapton's Tears In Heaven, Sting's Fragile, the slow movement from Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, such keyboard favourites as Debussy's Clair de Lune and Chopin's Nocturne In E-flat Major, and the Andante from Shostakovich's Second Piano Concerto.

"Some of the repertoire ideas have been in my mind for years, while others were added as snap decisions," says Mulligan. "For example, I decided ...