Member Since: 25/07/2007
Band Members: Misha Piatigorsky
( Pianist / Musical Director )
Winner of the 2004 BMI Thelonious Monk Composers Competition at Lincoln Center
Misha Piatigorsky was born in Moscow and immigrated to the United States in 1981. Educated at Rutgers University and Manhattan School of Music, he is one of the most innovative pianists and composers on today’s music scene, performing at such New York venues as Birdland, Iridium, and Dizzy’s Coca-Cola Club. His CD, “Uncommon Circumstanceâ€, was released in 2007, while his compositions can be heard on the movie soundtracks of Chaos Theory, Pretty Persuasion, RX and Danika.
Peter McLean
( Director )
Director and Billboard music producer.
Peter McLean, formerly head tutor at the Australian Academy of Dramatic Arts (1996-1999), arrived in New York in 1999 from Sydney to further his directing career. His first New York production was the very successful premiere of Barry Lowe’s Homme Fatale – The Joey Stefano Story. He then went on to direct the New York premiere of Australian Michael Gow’s Sweet Phoebe. Peter also directed a staged reading of Perry Brass’ The Harvest, adapted from his Lambada Literary Award Finalist novel, and the popular Death of the Piones, also by Perry Brass, for The National Arts Center. Peter recently directed the premiere of Robert W. Cabell’s, I, Sarah…The Divine starring Louise Martin.
As an actor, in Australia, Peter starred as Bernardo in West Side Story, and other plays include The Real Inspector Hound, The Wiz and Grease. Peter has also been featured in various films including the AFI award–winning Two Hands with Bryan Brown and Thank God He Met Lizzie with Kate Blanchett.
Influences: My Mother.
Aunt Ann and Aunt Helen
Great Singers
especially Carmen McRae and Sarah Vaughan.
Being in Europe and Japan.
History of all kinds.
Writers...
Shakespeare, Alistair Horne, Langston Hughes.
Other People…
John Glenn Paton (teacher)
Georg Solti (conductor)
Frances Wilson (teacher)
Peter McLean (director).
Record Label: D1 Music
Type of Label: Indie