Pianist Michael McNeill has cultivated a unique style rooted not only in the jazz music of Paul Bley, Hampton Hawes, Thelonious Monk, and Chick Corea but also in the modern classical music of Arnold Sch�nberg and Karlheinz Stockhausen. McNeill's new trio with bassist Ken Filiano and drummer Phil Haynes debuted in Cambridge, MA in August 2007. His trio with trumpeter Paul Smoker and Haynes toured the northeast in October, 2005 and performed at Baltimore�s An Die Musik and at New York�s Tonic, among other venues. McNeill has also led groups in Boston and his native Rochester, NY, performing his original music as well as creative restructurings of standards. As a classical pianist, he has performed solo piano music by composers from Bach and Beethoven to Schoenberg and Stockhausen, and has played in the premieres of nearly a dozen chamber and solo works. He holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Theory from Nazareth College, and a Master of Music degree in Modern American Music Performance from the Longy School of Music.