Michael E. Email & Phone Number

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Hired as part-time faculty for private piano lessons to beginning, intermediate, and advanced students of all ages and to direct small jazz ensembles.

Hired and trained to teach weekly private piano lessons to beginning and intermediate students of all ages. Have successfully maintained a studio of over a dozen students.*Performance bonus received April, 2024

Berkeley, Ca, Us

Hired to teach, direct, and arrange the Advanced High School Jazz Combo. Recruited to curate repertoire, lead rehearsals, prepare for spring recitals.

Michael Echaniz is one of the brightest musicians, composers, and artists emerging from the West Coast. A pianist since five, Michael has studied music at Santa Clara University, California Jazz Conservatory (B.M.), and CalArts (MFA.) Michael is an avid performer, playing and recording alongside internationally-renowned artists such as Jeff Denson, Romain Pilon, Wu Man, Gerald Cleaver, and Friction Quartet in venues such as Black Cat, the Art Boutiki, and Yoshi’s, as well as Umbria and Montreux jazz festivals. Michael has won numerous awards, mostly recently, the 2021 ASCAP Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composers Award and a New Music Workshop at the 2022 International Jazz Composers’ Symposium (ISJAC). Supported by InterMusic SF’s 2020 Music Grant Program and New Music USA’s Creator Development Fund in 2022-23, Michael will soon release Seven Shades of Violet (Rebiralost), an ambitious, virtuosic, symmetrical concept album of original compositions and arrangements on Ridgeway Records. Michael’s forward-thinking original music embraces rhythmic complexity, haunting melodicism, fluidity between improvisation and through-composition, influence from disparate styles of classical, world, and pop music, and deep emotional connection.

Experience teaching beginning piano technique to 5-6 year old students. Has taught advanced workshops on jazz performance and advanced rhythm at the California Jazz Conservatory, Santa Rosa Junior College, and El Cerrito High School.

Prepared charts of detailed, accurate transcriptions of recorded jazz arrangements using Sibelius software.

• Taught professional workshops at the California Jazz Conservatory on advanced rhythm o Prepared curriculum, flow of topics, worksheets, PowerPoint, in-class demonstrations• Taught group workshops throughout the Bay Area on jazz performance through the California Jazz Conservatory’s Blue Ensemble program o Communicated fundamentals of jazz performance to high school and community college students o Offered advice on academia and musician life

Valencia, Ca, Us

Maintain a full studio of jazz piano students alongside teaching assistant roles in Transcription and Aural Skills classes. Responsible for tutoring, grading, mentorship, and providing curriculum.

Unexpected personal sabbatical from full-time employment and academic pursuits due to an abrupt, severely-prolonged, life-threatening health crisis with numerous unsuccessful, debilitating treatment interventions. Currently resolved and in complete remission >3 years. Fully healthy and at full working capacity since September, 2020.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Assisted a prominent San Francisco political consulting firm in data entry (Excel),professional errands, and receptionist help.

Master Of Fine Arts - Mfa, Jazz/Jazz Studies

Bachelor Of Music, Jazz/Jazz Studies

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba (Incomplete), Music

High School Diploma