Misha Stefanuk

Misha V. Stefanuk (* 1967 in Moscow , Russian SFSR ) is an American composer, pianist and music teacher.

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Stefanuk started playing the piano at the age of five and composed his first piece of music when he was nine. He studied music theory at the Moscow Conservatory and attended the Moscow Studio for Improvisational Music and the Russian Music Academy, where Kirill Volkov and Dmitry Blum were among his teachers. As a pianist he performed with the ragtime and Dixieland band Patephone in Holland and Spain.

After emigrating to the USA, he studied composition at Belmont University and music education at Boston University . He also attended the Skidmore Jazz Institute and studied at Washington State University with Gregg Yasinitsky , Charles Argersinger and Frank Mantooth . He was a pianist in two university big bands and founded the jazz trio Mooseknows , with which he recorded two CDs. At the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival he was recognized as an Outstanding Piano Player . He appears regularly with Nat Sherman at 5th Ave in New York , and is organist at Mount Carmel Church in Orange.

Stefanuk is also a columnist for the music magazine Creative Keyboard and a regular juror at the Chopin Youth Piano Competition in Milwaukee. Together with his wife, the singer, piano and singing teacher Evan Marie Dozier-Stefanuk , he teaches at the Johnson Ferry Conservatory of Music in Atlanta. In addition to instrumental works, Stefanuk has composed music for more than 20 theater productions and 30 video projects, as well as several operas (including The True Story of Wolf & Red Riding Hood , 2009, The Kitty who Lost Her Meow , Wolfy , 2008 and An American Story: George Gershwin , 2007 ). He has recorded more than 20 CDs with works from the fields of new music, jazz and pop.

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SURNAME	Stefanuk, Misha
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Stefanuk, Misha V.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American composer, pianist and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	1967
PLACE OF BIRTH	Moscow