Jazz Pianist. Musicians' musician.
Started his life-long musical journey in Ohio.
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A graduate of the University of Pacific Music Conservatory (Dave Brubeck Institute).
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He currently teaches private piano lessons in Santa Barbara, California, where he has lived since the early '90s.
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Mel is a very gifted teacher, pianist, and composer. He has many years of experience as a performer both "in concert" and as a studio musician.
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Be it solo piano, small ensemble, or big band, Mel is equally adept.
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Mel has students of all ages and levels, ranging in age from 8 to 90.
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To learn more about Mel's musical history, check out this interview with the man himself featured on the Marion, Ohio music and arts site 43302.org
Taking classical piano lessons as a teenager, I developed a love and respect for the classics. It's all music - plain and simple! Human beings making *something* from nothing and trying to make the most beautiful, emotional, coolest, enlightened, artistic, rhythmic, and creative expressions that Humans can make.
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I have only one question as a listener: does it move me?
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All music hits me in the same places: the head, the heart, and sometimes the butt, and it really doesn't matter what style its categorized as.
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