Marilynn Seits: Bio
Marilynn Seits - Jazz Pianist
Artist’s Bio: Pianist Marilynn Seits
I currently live in the Riverdale section of New York City and I am available for big band and small ensemble work as well as solo piano performances. I have an electric keyboard, complete sound system & car and having owned my own recording studio, I’m familiar with all types of audio & recording equipment, MIDI & digital recording & editing programs. My current musical engagements include Java Jo'z Cafe in Scarsdale and entertaining on the piano at several senior and community centers in Riverdale and the Bronx.
I began my musical career as a music major in the 1960’s at the U of Illinois playing in the Illinois Jazz Band with trumpeters Cecil Bridgewater & Jim Knapp. After college I moved to New York City, played jazz and club date gigs with Steven Scott & Bill Harrington and studied jazz & composition with Sir Roland Hanna, Jimmy Guiffre & Steve Reich.
I moved to Florida in 1994 where I built my own recording studio and released ten CD’s (both jazz & New Age music) on the CMR Records label. I composed most of the music on the CDs. In addition to my own jazz quartet, I played regularly with several 17 piece big bands in South Florida and such respected musicians as tenor saxophonist Ray Oram & legendary trombonist Art Sares. Many big band gigs involved sight reading charts for shows at the Coral Springs Performing Arts Center as well as improvisation.
With my children grown, I recently moved back to New York City. I have home recording studio and I continue to compose, teach and perform whenever I have the opportunity.
Marilynn Seits - Audio Engineering, digital editing, MIDI arranging
I had a small home studio for several years before building a 48 track full service studio in West Palm Beach in 1995. I recently sold the studio and moved back to New York City and I have a home studio here. The audio & MIDI recording & editing program I use is Pogic Pro 7 on an iMac along with Apogee Ensemble, MOTU MIDI Express interfaces, a Kurtzweil PC88 MX keyboard and Westlake monitors. I have composed and edited music for a dozen CDs using this setup, recorded many demos for clients and done MIDI arranging for clients' original songs. I have also edited and "cut" music from CDs for dressage riders and ice skaters to use in competition. I have a beautiful sounding Bosendorfer 6'6" piano in my living room for recording piano CDs along with a Neuman U67 tube mic and 2 Neuman KM 84's for inside the piano. I can also provide piano accompaniment for vocalists and print out lead sheets in the CORRECT keys for your voice. Visit www.cmrrecords.com for more info on past studio clients.
Sean McAusland - Cyban Productions
SEAN MCAUSLAND - graphics & audio engineering
Sean McAusland was an art major at the U of Vermont and has done original art work and designed the layout for all of the CDs on the CMR Records label as well as several designs for CMR Studios clients. He has also done the graphics for all of the promotional materials such as post cards, catalogs and ads for the company. In addition, as an audio engineer, he has engineered and done mixing and digital editing for dozens of projects at Creative Music Recordings. You can see examples of all of his engineering and art work on the web site at www.cmrrecords.com. Today, Sean lives in Asheville, NC where he has an art and recording studio in his home. He is available to do CD album graphics, web design, digital audio recording, mixing and editing. He is also available for location recordings and DJ work in the Asheville area. Contact him at cmr@cmrrecords.com.