Mark Arthur Wyman
I have 30+ years of rich and varied experience in music in many areas, beginning with piano lessons at age five; classical, both solo and with symphony and chamber ensembles; many pop and rock bands, cover and original; jazz and improvisational; musicals; dance accompaniment; voice and choir accompaniment; tango; arrangement and original music, and transcriptions; much studio experience; audio-visual work involving video and film with music, and theater sound; computer-based music; digital recording on computer; live sound mixing and recording; conducting, musical directing, and orchestral/ensemble work, and much more.
Comfortable improvising, soloing, grooving.
Comfortable on acoustic piano and many different keyboards. Current gear includes Kurzweil SP2X and PC2X, Macintosh laptop running Mainstage/Logic, and Access Virus.
Excellent communication skills, written, verbal, and extra-sensorial.
Many transcriptions and arrangements of various styles of music, from tango to musicals (using Finale). Designer and publisher of argentine tango and folk books as Delf Music (delfmusic.eu)
Accepted at Rotterdam Conservatorium as tango pianist.
Currently living in Amsterdam NL, performing regularly. See an agenda on my site, harmonk.com.
Member NTB,
BUMA/STEMRA,
NORMA.
august 2008 - june 2009
Keyboards and Conductor in Sound of Music, VnV Entertainment
- auditions and rehearsal pianist, Focus Amsterdam
- 50% orchestra keyboards, 2d conductor Theater de Efteling, Kaatsheuvel NL.
2009 august
Keyboards in show Brel at Breakfast as part of Edinburgh Fringe Festival
with singer Donald Hawkins and keyboardist Wim Veenhof
25 shows, 6-31 august
2009 january
Auditions pianist for Mary Poppins, Joop van den Ende, Focus Amsterdam.
2008
Substitute keyboards and rehearsal/audition pianist in Tarzan, Joop van den Ende, Circustheater, Scheveningen.
Rehearsal/audition pianist in Les Miserables, Joop van den Ende, Focus Amsterdam and Luxortheater Rotterdam.
2007
Auditions, rehearsals, substitute for several musicals, choirs, singers; piano accompanist Noisy Voices Koor
Recording of Racing Club CD 'El aguante'
2003-2006
Piano accompanist Noisy Voices Koor
2003-4
Associate Producer, sound technician, camera op, and photographer on 'Tango Stories' (working title), a film about tango in Buenos Aires. Directed by Paul Lundahl, noted videographer and co-founder of eMotion Studios, Sausalito CA (http://www.emotionstudios.com/). Filming Buenos Aires, Argentina, editing San Francisco, CA, US.
1996
Master of Arts, Piano Performance and Literature, Mills College (Oakland, CA, USA), Dean's List. Studied with Goodwin Sammel, Julian White.
1992
Bachelor of Science in music, Piano Performance, San Francisco State University (USA), Summa cum laude. Studied with William Corbett-Jones, Carlo Bussotti, Karla Lemon.
ongoing
Giving of private piano lessons in Amsterdam.
Constant gigs and small performances.
Constant accompaniment of singers and choirs for auditions and rehearsals.
Transcribing, arranging and printing of many different styles of music with Finale.
Tango quintet Racing Club (www.racingclubtango.com)
Tango trio Milongón (harmonk.com/milongon)
Piano accompanist Cantina Vocaal (since 2003)
Piano accompaniment Donald Hawkins, Walther Duebel, Enrique Caruso, José Rivero, Mabel Gonzales and several other singers and choirs, including performances and recordings
Began classical piano studies at age 5. Regular performance and study of classical piano music.
Teen years and high school: jazz band, choral accompaniment, theatre; years of experience in rock bands and live music performance.
Mills College and San Francisco State University classical piano studies included many performances:
• classical solo, orchestral, and chamber music, from all periods
• musicals such as Candide
• vocal accompaniment and coaching
• jazz of every description
• bizarre experimental, improvisation and avant-garde
• and 20th-century and new music such as Cage, Rzewski and Crumb.
Studied classical piano with William Corbett-Jones (SFSU) and Goodwin Sammel (Mills College) and Julian White.
Also studied Theory, Conducting, History.
Outside of university, and since graduating, involved in many different musical groups:
• tango (Musical director of Orquesta Amago; Quinteto Racing Club; Quinteto Bandola Zurdo; MonTango; Parlando/Strictly Tango; Tango #9; my own quartet; various other groups)
• pop/rock covers (Burt Bacharach with Casino Royale, Herb Alpert, Neil Diamond with Super Diamond)
• original rock (Eighty Mile Beach with Beth Custer, Wild Bouquet with Mat Callahan)
• jazz (free, African, solo and large-scale improv)
• experimental and avant-garde (Pamela Z)
• cabaret (Julie Queen)
• musical theatre (Company, Sondheim; Oklahoma, Rogers and Hammerstein; Candide, Bernstein)
• orchestral performance with conductor (Copland, Stravinsky)
• musical direction (George Coates) and conducting (Thomas Day).
Many years dance accompaniment experience, classical and modern, with music or improv (Shawl-Anderson studio, Mills College, Julia Morgan theatre, UC Berkeley, DanSpace, all in CA, US; Park School, Amsterdam, NL).
Computerised music production and recording; music and video digitizing/encoding, composition, editing; web video, MIDI and MP3/MP4 encoding; DVD encoding and ripping; and MIDI software applications. Familiar with such software as ProTools, Quicktime Pro, Finale, Sibelius, Audacity, Spark, and iTunes.
Many recordings. Excerpts are on my site, harmonk.com - click on the left-side 'music' link. More available upon request.
References available upon request.