Presbyterian Church on Spokane's South Hill

John Conte, pianist, holds Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the Peabody Institute/Conservatory of Music of the Johns Hopkins University. Further education includes graduate studies in Jazz Performance and Music Theory at The Manhattan School of Music and Chamber Music at The Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada. He was the assistant conductor to Maestro Franco Bertacci of the Lyric Theatre Orchestra of NY/NJ. His teachers include Robert Weirich, Ann Schein, Leon Fleisher, Karl Ulrich Schnabel, Harold Danko, and Gary Dial. He was the pianist, orchestrator/arranger and musical director for Alexander Kariotis and the Rock Opera Orchestra. He has written, recorded, and produced scores for the independent feature films "Black Eyed Susan" and "Mass of Angels.” He taught music at Fairleigh Dickinson University and Drew University. New York venues at which he has appeared include Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Katie Murphy Amphitheatre, Don’t Tell Mamma, Theater Row Theater, Laurie Beechman Theatre/West Bank Café, Rockwood Music Hall, Creative Voices Theatre, Cornelia Street Café, and the NYC International Fringe Festival. He has recorded at NYC’s Power Station/Avatar Studios, MSR Studios, and London’s Abbey Road Studios. Artists he has worked with include David Sanborn, Darryl “DMC“ McDaniels, Dayna Kurtz, John Leone, Ula Hedwig, Michele Ragusa, Judy Kang, and Brannon Cho. He is the pianist/organist at Hamblen Park Presbyterian Church.