Chris Novak - Keyboards & Piano

Teaching Credentials

• 28 years experience on piano
• 22 years experience on keyboard and programming
• 20 years live performance
• 10 years teaching experience
• Trained by husband-and-wife Julliard graduate concert pianists Frances Veri and Michael Jamanis (www.paacademymusic.com)
• Chief programmer, Sybersound Records from 1995-2000 (www.partytyme.net) (http://new.umusic.com/News.aspx?NewsId=291)

Performance Highlights

Courses Available

• Technique: Beginner to advanced scales, arpeggios, stamina and balancing exercises
• Classical: Elementary to college
• Blues: styles, forms, progressions, left-hand rhythms, solos
• Jazz: comping, theory, styles, solos
• Salsa: exercises, techniques
• New Age: styles, improvisation, performance
• Improvisation and Composition
• Live and Studio Performance
• Synthysizer performance and programming
• Midi Training
• Sequencing: basic and advanced techniques
• Production