Recorded In Chicago 08/03/2026 Fazioli Grand Piano
John trained beginning at age 4 and studied at Award Winning St Thomas More and thereafter with Margerat Melchevsky in NW Indiana, who was a Tchaikovsky Student Protege'. He Left Piano for years after a brief stint as a Union Musician, Returned and recently won Carl Reinecke for “Requiem in Blue”, Bach (UK) Composition and Beethoven 2nd Place for “Waltz of the Broken Hearts.” He was a trained Piano Technician out of College, and does not use AI, played throughout College and currently has over 100 Recorded Classical/Jazz Tracks. He currently publishes and composes only and does not perform or teach
Returned to the Acoustic Keyboard/Composing after long Hiatus and many medical challenges;
Experienced with Acoustic Piano, Sequential Circuits, Prophet, Analog, Currently Record on Fazioli in Chicago, Steinway Model B Sample, Kawai, Roland, Exclusively. Trained after Undergraduate as Piano Tuner Technician Unfortunately today Acoustic Piano Sales have went from around 350,000 in around 1920 to where most US households emphasized Music, to less than 20,000 in 2020 with only a handful of viable Instrument Makers still in business and many poor quality instruments that are essentially “non playable” . Personally and Professionally recommend Roland Digital Kawai, Acoustic and Digital, Yamaha Acoustic, Steinway.
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“Acoustic Piano Sales went from over 350,000 in the 1920's in the U.S. annually to less than 16,500 In approximately 2020. ” - Public Sales Data Mfg
— Musical Instrument Data Manufacturers
Song List
- Neverending - Bob Marquee
- For All We Have - Lystera
- Messiah Love - The Freejacks
- Seventy Six Secrets - Georgia Winfrey
- The Great Pillar of Salt - Aldergrove
- Memory Or Not - Claire Redwood
- Beams of Light - Severant Grey
- All Soldered - Wellington Free Market
- Smokestack - Friends of Friends
- Mixed Emotions - Ahab Fraught
- Lighthouse - Four Poor Souls
- Crux - Mastery
- Ego - Buried
- Carnival of Rain - Yellowknife
- Listless While - Virginia Treadfast
- Many Other Sorrows - White Hot Heaven
- Open Mirror - Eleven Lions
- Stood Up - Whalestone
- Nevertheless - Colin Brilliard
- Forty and Some Odd - EGK
- Sun Drums - Emily Watson
- Another Fine Morning - Golden Tapes