Alan Z - Piano, Voice, Drums Piano, Voice, Keyboards, percussion San Diego, CA

Alan is a highly acclaimed music composer, arranger and performer with over 20 years of experience in the entertainment industry, including the recording industry, motion picture production, theater, radio and television. Alan has further expertise in training and program development within individual, corporate and educational environments.

Alan started piano lessons at a young age under the tutelage of Aurora Serratos which developed into more serious career choice in his early teens by being part of a fairly accomplished rock band. He began studying solfege under the acclaimed chamber music conductor Jorge Cordoba in Mexico City which led him to enroll in the CIEM.

After a number years of classical training in that music academy, Alan was awarded full tuition scholarship by Berklee College of Music and headed for Boston, MA. Upon graduating Berklee in 1997 he has being leading, for the past 12 years, an alternating triple life of composing, performing and recording music for theater, film and advertising as well as performing in jazz groups and teaching. Alan has been featured and documented countless times in radio, newspapers and other media and has been part of a long list of established groups and performing artists.

Alan is a dedicated teacher who has campaigned to do basically one thing, to simplify. Music is one of those art forms surrounded by mysticism and buried in complexity. Alan prooves this wrong time and time again with his mission of continually clarifying something that is, in nature, simple but so misunderstood that is usually taught in truly exotic ways. He has done this out of personal experience. He takes his approach from the best teachers who taught him, and these were many. This, and a deep understanding of psychology and education make him a fail-safe choice among the many.

Learning in depth the ghost behind the machine of the mechanisms of music. Which are the cultural and the technical.

The cultural being: different, perceptions and expectations of music in different cultures. The different styles, rhythms, melodies and ethnic scales used. Historical and sociological influences on music.

And the technical being: Physics of sound, mathematical structures in music, physical development for instrumental application, study of standard requirements of theory and practice for the instrument.

And this only being the tip of the iceberg. Hey, not forgetting that this is fun, it's all in how it's taught and he does that well.

Jazz, Latin, Classical, Piano, Music Theory, Arranging, Composition, Improvisation, Orchestration, Counterpoint, Harmony, Vocal Coaching and Singing.

Piano, Voice, Keyboards, percussion