MacMusicGuy Experience

Highlights of the MacMusicGuy's career, by area. Check the news page for highlights on recent activities.

Performing - Teaching - Studio - Writing - Jobs&Gigs - Styles

Performing - back to top

Solo pianist at numerous weddings and events (lots of jazz, pop, light classical).
Perform almost every Sunday with tom&co, the praise band at Vineville North Baptist (NOT your average praise band!).
Keyboardist for the Joey Stuckey Band (rock, country, jazz) and the Bob Huellemeir orchestra (swing, big band, swing era pop tunes).
Music Director/keyboardist for 10 community and college theatre musical productions in South Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia.
Accompanist, Macon State Chamber Singers.
On-call keyboardist for the Grapevine, a popular middle Georgia oldies band.

Teaching/Education - back to top

Teach private keyboard and piano lessons at Young America Music School - students of all ages (5 to 85).
Have over 15 years experience teaching piano and other music courses at the college level (Macon State College and Chattanooga State Technical Community College).
Accompanied his Macon State piano student who competed in the 2006 Macon Symphony Concerto Competition (She performed the Kabalevsky Conerto #3 in D).
Earned a Masters Degree in Piano Performance from the University of South Carolina (studied with John Williams). The Bachelors in Music in Piano Performance was earned at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (studied with Earl Miller).

Studio - back to top

Have writing, keyboard performing, arranging, sound design, production credits
Arrangements and/or keyboard for tom&co, Cathead Dooley, Skeebo Knight, plus recordings by Joey Stuckey and the Bob Huellemeir Orchestra. The Blessed Blend album "Journeys through the Mist". Also had a hand in teh Grammy-nominated audiobook by Ed Grisamore
Styles include jazz, rock, country, pop, new age, classical, and several "et ceteras".

Arranging and Writing - back to top

Have co-written and/or arranged music that has been performed Macon and elsewhere. Was the arranger and producer for Seasons by tom&co, which has received airplay in North America and Australia, and was featured on the Oasis CD's Christmas 2004 Acoustic Sampler and played on the internet radio show Joey Stuckey's Audio-Style. A track from Seasons was also selected for inclusion into a CD produced for an Australian public radio membership drive in 2006.

Wrote the music and produced the recording for Vineville Baptist's Vacation Bible Xtreme in 2005, 2006, and 2007. (The recording was done in-house on equipment at the church and in his studio)

Have also worked on jingles for Douglas County, Vineville North Baptist, others.

need some music written down, or charts worked out? I offer music transcription services in connection with Shadowsound Studios.

Has received the ASCAPlus award from ASCAP for 4 years running for public performances of original music.

Jobs and regular gigs - back to top

Praise band director and audio editor, Vineville North Baptist, 1994-present
Head, Music Department, Macon State, 1990-1997
Keyboardist, Bob Huellemeir Orchestra (since 1992)
Keyboardist, Joey Stuckey Band (since 2000).
Technical Director, Vineville North Baptist, 2004 - 2006.

Styles - back to top

Just about all of them! Why not ask about your style?