Gwen Greenway - Resume

Skills

  • Music Composer, Arranger
  • Sound Engineer
  • Certified piano teacher, jazz, pop, classical, song-writing, harmony and theory
  • Strong organizational and management skills

Experience

  • Creator of specific workshops for songwriting, television themes, and jingles
  • Writer of "Undercover" piano book. This book contains all of the lead sheets from the CD as well as a note to note transcription of all the solos!
  • Writer of "Basic Keyboard Principles" - a lesson and reference book for pop and jazz students
  • Writer, composer, producer, and arranger of the CD "In the Shade", by Undercover
  • Publisher and distributor of Music History Flashcards
  • Designer and teacher of "Playing the Piano by Ear, The Key!" offered at Capilano College
  • Pianist in a ten-piece band aboard the Starlight Dinner Train
  • Director of the electronic music program at the Arbutus Club, Vancouver

 

Education

  • On-going studies in piano for professional development which have included lessons with the following professional pianists: Lloyd Abrams (jazz piano and composition), Bob Murphy (jazz piano), Bob Doyle (jazz piano), Kim Darwin (jazz piano), and the late Kathy Kidd (Latin/Afro jazz piano)
  • Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, London, England, certificate in teaching jazz piano (created and taught by Charles Beale)
  • Bullfrog Recording School, Vancouver, B.C., certificates in Recording Engineering
  • Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, B.C., electronic music composition (taught by Barry Truax)
  • Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto, Ontario, Associate of the Royal Conservatory of Music (A.R.C.T.) in piano (taught by Carol Jutte)
  • York University, Toronto, Ontario, bachelor of fine arts majoring in music (piano and harpsichord-harmony taught by Peggy Samson, with a secondary major in southeast Indian drumming-taught by Trichy Sankaran)
  • McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, bachelor of music program (majoring in piano, taught by Reginald Bedford)