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James received a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Performance from Yale University in 2001 in New Haven, CT. Before that, James graduated from the University of Houston in Houston, TX with a Bachelors in Music Performance in 1994. James has been teaching since 1996, and his styles include jazz, rhythm and blues, pop, Broadway, and classical, among other styles. He is currently on the staff at UCLA as a collaborative pianist and vocal coach for the music department, and over the summer has been on faculty at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, CA and as opera coach for the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival. He frequently performs throughout Southern California in well-known venues, piano bars and cabarets. He has directed and played for numerous Broadway productions and for numerous headlining shows. James is also a concert pianist, performing concertos with several symphonies. His awards include prizes in the New York Concert Artists Guild International Competition, the National Chopin Competition, the Washington International Piano Competition at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., the Olga Koussevitsky Piano Competition in New York, the Salon de Virtuosi Awards in New York, the Houston Symphony Ima Hogg National Young Artist Competition, and the title of Top Instrumentalist in the World Championships for the Performing Arts in Burbank, CA.
Personality rating: outgoing
James has been teaching piano and singing at Melody Music Studios since:
10/14/2011 |
