About Fred P.
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Irish Tenor
Jan, 2005 - Dec, 2015Harp4all
My last performance as a professional singer, was Christmas Business Party accompanied by Sara Chasse on harp. We performed many 18th-19th Century Christmas Carols. We would also perform at Kaiser Riverside and Kaiser Moreno Valley, California to volunteer music therapy. Our first day in ICU was a powerful testimony for the power of music therapy. I had just finished singing a few folk songs when a nurse told me that the man whom we were outside performing had just relaxed enough to fall asleep. Medical staff was afraid for this patient because he had already maxed out his Rx and still wasn't showing good signs. The tears in the nurse's eyes and sentiment in her expressed how important what we were doing. Another heart warming experience happened when we were on pediatric floor. I had just finished singing and a woman, a mother with swollen eyes with tears and most powerful expression of joy I had ever seen. She told me that she remembered us performing when you baby was born and now she returned with her sick baby and before we shared our music she had changed from total worry to hope. She hugged me and thanked me with so much sentiment. Music therapy in hospitals is needed perhaps just as equal as medical professionals and that's not coming from me, but from many nurses and physicians that expressed appreciation for us. Nurses and physicians that had put in long hours felt refreshed and renewed senses in the medical care they shared. Among volunteering at Kaiser hospitals, we also volunteered at Air Force Village West near Air Force Base between Riverside and Moreno Valley. There is no greater experience then sharing music with people. We performed many, very many Weddings, funerals, business parties, and even public town and city music shows.
Maestro
Mar, 2008 - Oct, 2015Harp4all Music Conservatory
My background was listening to Opera from the Met on Saturday afternoons which inspired me to sing. Singer, Researcher, Musicologist, Trumpet and Cornet player, Teacher of piano, violin, singing, brass winds (cornet, trumpet, trombone, F horn, bugle); harp transport specialist, sound engineer, marketing, and computer technician. music instruments repairs.
Music Instrument Repair Tech
Jan, 2006 - Oct, 2015Harp4all
Part of living as a musician is living by scraping by. I had to repair music instruments of students and for ourselves. I was IBM certified in 1994 to repair computers, this I owe to being able to repair any music instrument. However, I replaced flute pads once and vow never again.
Education
AA & Music, Politics, History, Sociology, Child Development Special Needs
Sep, 2007 - May, 2011Riverside Community College
AA & General
May, 2009 - May, 2011Norco College
Awards
Teacher of the Year
Sep, 2014American College of Musicians - Piano Guild
Languages
German
Limited Proficiency
Italian
Limited Proficiency
Russian
Limited Proficiency
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