Artist description Bill Rhodes is an accomplished pianist and electronic composer, with credits including 28 Albums from 1978 to present. His Broadcast and Film Credits include The Lillehamer Olympics for European Broadcast, and various projects on German Independent Cable TV. He holds a Masters Degree in Musical Composition, and was Professor of Music at Monmouth University (NJ) from '88 to '94. Bill is currently performing nationally and in South Florida, and is also employed as a freelance product specialist (Studiologic Master Controllers & More...) in the Electronic Music Industry. He counts among his friends Bob Moog, Larry Fast, Keith Emerson, Steve Walsh, Mark Vail, Craig Anderton, and Sean P. O'Connor (a.k.a. CE Behr) of Behrland AudioWorks in Deer Park,

Music Style Electronic Classical

Musical Influences Stravinsky, Ravel, Keith Emerson, Wendy Carlos, Tomita, Larry Fast, Ravel, De Bussy, Bach, Gershwin, Rachmaninoff

Similar Artists Isao Tomita, Tangerine Dream, Keith Jarrett, Kitaro, Rick Wakeman, Larry Fast, Keith Emerson, Yanni, John Tesh, Jean Michel Jarre, Wendy Carlos, Phillip Glass, Dominic Frontieri, Rick Wakeman

Artist History For Jazzical Records 1978 - "Tropicsphere" 1979 - "Sphere Of Influence" 1982 - "Ruprecht's Works" 1990 - "Bill Rhodes" 2000 - "Concerto for The New Earth" 2000 - "Piano Album" (Out of Print) 2001 - "Rhodeworks Vol. 1" 2001 - "Me Helix, You Axis" soon - "Eclectic" For Innovative Communication ("IC") 1991 - "Twilight Zone" 1991 - "Burning Faith" 1991 - "Mindbreak" 1991 - "Sculptures" 1992 - "Music for The Next Century" 1993 - "Stardancer" For Arcade Records 1994 - "The Best of New Age" featuring Rick Wakeman, Tangerine Dream, Bill Rhodes, Ryuichi Sakamoto (Yellow Magic Orchestra) and others

Group Members Bill Rhodes

Instruments Piano, Sampled Piano, Synthesizer, Multitrack Environments.

Albums In Current Release: Me Helix, You Axis... and, now, the ALL NEW, Rhodeworks Vol. 1 from Rhodemusik, 200. ECLECTIC COME SOON. FILM at 11.

Press Reviews "A combination of jazz and classical music, laced with electronics and pyrotechnic keyboard performance" -- Craig Anderton, EQ Magazine "[Bill] Rhodes is the only other electronic musician besides Wendy Carlos capable of playing and writing true multi-orchestrated electronic music." -- Electronic Musician Magazine "Mr. Rhodes has a superb sense for melody paired with a brilliant playing technique" -- Hans Ochs "[Me Helix, You Axis...] sounds very powerful. There's a lot of exposition of the themes through the journey... I'm glad to hear that everything is going so well for you. Keep up the good work!" -- Larry Fast, of Peter Gabriel and Synergy fame

Additional Info Coming Soon, ........."Eclectic" (don't expect homogeniety on this one!)

Location West Palm Beach (Count This!), Florida - USA

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