St Louis, Missouri, United States
Saint Louis Youth Orchestra - Leonard Slatkin, director 1972 - 1973 Played in a band called 'People' featuring Dennis Potthast, Dan Titus, Bill Noltkamper and Steve Winter in bars and ballrooms in Alton, Edwardsville, Fairview Heights, Collinsville and Belleville, IL. UMKC Conservatory of Music 1974 - 1977 Berklee College of Music 1981 - 1983 Produced 1st commercial soundtrack for Shoe Show 1984. Submitted cassette tape to Jeff Back 1985, one of my tunes, "Behind the Veil" ended up on his Guitar Shop album. Cars members (dispossessed by Ric Ocasek's new solo contract with Epic) David Robinson, Elliot Easton & Greg Hawkes record their version of my tune "Stop the World" and make the local top 5 in 1987. Mimi Farina releases album "Solo" on Rounder Records, I play viola on a few tracks. Mark Egan, Robin Batteau, Banana (aka Lowell Levinger) played on this album. John Nagy produced this in a studio I helped build, called Fort Apache II in the Rounder Records building on Camp St in Cambridge, MA. Dizzy Atmosphere started working at Brandt's in spring of 1999. Since then the band has played most of the major music venues in St Louis, including the Missouri History Museum, the St Louis Art Museum, the Festival of Nations, Laumeier Art Fair, the Shaw Art Fair, the Whitaker Music Festival at the Missouri Botanical Garden, the Dark Room, the Webster Groves Jazz & Blues Festival and at the Sheldon Concert Hall in 2009 & 2013, portions of which have been broadcast by HEC-TV.
French, Latin & American Jazz
I've retired from Centene, it was a privilege and a pleasure to work with so many dedicated professionals.
St Louis' most adventurous community orchestra, now celebrating 51 years of music
performed at Powell Hall with St Louis Youth Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin - conductor and music director