Performer / Instrumentalist / Leader
Excellent sight reading and improvising in a wide variety of styles.
Clarinets
- Eb Sopranino, Bb Soprano, C Soprano, Eb Alto, Bb Bass Clarinets
Albert system: C, B, Bb, G, Eb clarinets (all LP)
Saxophones
- Bb Soprano, Eb Alto, C Melody, Bb Tenor Saxophones
Flutes
- open and closed hole concert Flute, C & Db and Eb piccolo(s), alto flute in G, oboe, bassoon, soprano & alto recorders, misc. flutes and whistles, kaval, blackwood albert flutes & piccolos, zurna, pipiza, gaida, taep yong so, pirkiri, ney, mey, native american flutes, occarinas, shakuhachi, nose flute, slide whistles, penny whistles, Heart family flute, diavlos
Misc
- Mandolins, oud, lute-o-lin, cumbuc, saz, baglama, soprano, concert, baritone & tenor ukulele, balalaika, domra, tambura, cavaquinho, autoharp, samisen, banjo, lap steel, zourna, gaida, ocarinas, lyra, dulcimer, harmonicas, guimbard
Keyboards & Percussion
- Synthesizers, keyboards, MIDI drums, dumbek, hand drums and shakers of all sizes, traps with full array of cymbals & percussion FX
Guitars & Bass
- Acoustic, electric and 12 string guitars, Fender Strat/Roland MIDI guitar, fretless and fretted electric bass, fanfret guitars and bass,
Recording
ProTools with Digi002, ADAT, Sonar Producer, Finale, Sibelius, Hard Disk Mac & Windows
contact:
Mikel Estrin
PO Box 2557
Castro Valley, California 94546
Tel. (510)276-6880
email: [email protected]
Originals
Download "Industrialesq", an original composition by Mikel, playing all the instruments including: soprano sax, mandolin, and all keyboards, drums and samples: Industrialesq
(C) 2004 Mikel Estrin. All Rights Reserved.
Klezmer Examples:
Download the Gefilte Fish MP3 (Mikel on clarinet)
Download Sirba MP3 (Featuring Clark Welsh on Soprano Sax)
Download Skotsne MP3
+ 2008 J. Reader's Choice 1st Place Award: Best Klezmer, East Bay for Mikel Estrin - Haimish Music
+ Concerts and performances with Haimish Music featuring vocalist/guitarist Achi Ben Shalom; and Tikkun Band, San Francisco Balalaika Ensemble
+ August 2007 reedman on sax & flute with the group 8th Day at the Exploratorium & Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco.
+ December 2006 CD release "Journey to Shabbat" with Internationally famous Cantor Rita Glassman, vocalist and guitarist Achi Ben Shalom, & percussionist Katja Cooper
+ Performed on clarinet, mandolin, halil, & flute with Achi Ben Shalom,
+ Guest performer with The Hellenicks on oud, guitar, flute & baglama at Greek Festivals.
+ Clarinet, Guitar, keyboards and Baglama with Clark Welsh & Peter Rangaves in the OPA Band performances.
+ Bi-Weekly appearances on Friday nights at Noe Valley Ministry, San Francisco in Fall 2002 & Spring 2003 on a variety of instruments including acoustic & MIDI Guitars, soprano sax, flutes & percussion.
+ Founding member of the San Francisco Balalaika Ensemble including their performance at Davies Symphony Hall, SF.
+ Cabaret show at Nicks Restaurant in Pacifica with belly dancers and vocalist Peter Rangaves.
+ Performer/leader for private parties and weddings, etc. performing International repertoire on guitar, sax and clarinet.
+ Played keyboards with Pegasus in Belmont, and with the Argonauts in San Jose at St. Nicolas, and in the house band at Papa's Taverna in Petaluma.
+ Performances/concerts with Time Lords, OPA Band, Taverna, and The Golden Gate Gypsies.
+ Flute with Oakland Chamber Orchestra
+ Created, wrote and performed one man show "Mad Mikel the Magical Minstrel Man"; at Central Valley Renaissance Faire; and Heath & Harmony Faire.Included magic, jokes, clowning, and solo performances on over 15 musical instruments.
+ Parade marshal / conductor for Clown Theater Day at Lincoln Center, NYC sponsored by Sara Lee foods
+ Wrote, arranged and co-produced "Time Lords on Carnivale Street" recorded by Ron Reaser at Sound of New Orleans Studio in New Orleans, LA.
+ Hundreds of performances throughout the San Francisco Bay Area with Ellis Island Old World Folk Band as clarinet/soloist.
+ Composer of Broadway-style musical comedy "Abraham's Tent" with award winning playwright Gloria Blum in Hawaii.
+ Composer / Arranger of "Swimming in the Sky"; performance show by John Grimaldi, the multitalented actor/writer/acrobat/juggler/clown at Theater for the New City and Westbeth Theater Center, NYU, etc. in New York City.
+ Freelance performances and composition commissions for films, theater, television, radio and recordings in New York, London, Paris, Rome and Athens.
+ Performed on Sax, guitar, bass, flute, percussion, keyboards, etc. with: Wind Band, Ocarina Orchestra, Charlie Morrow, Shazaam, Charivari, Long Island Original Music Ensemble, Merriweather Consort, Purple Martin, etc.
+ Performances at clubs, venues, galleries, Museum Row, Ear Inn, Central Park, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, etc. Appearances in Europe with Melina Mercouri, Georges Guetari, Savopolos, Santana, Graham Allright, Steve Lacy, Bobby Few, Don Cherry, Craig Harris, Elvis Platin�, Le Grand Nebuleux, Th�atracide, etc.
+ Featured in film: "Saloperie du Rock And Roll" playing alto sax.
+ Prize at Bourges Electronic Music Festival, France, for original soundtrack score of "El Desdichado" performed by Philippe Dugu�.
+ Recorded on Warner Brothers, EMI, Capitol, Columbia, and others.
- Fluent French and Modern Greek; conversational German and Italian; some Spanish.
- Write, arrange, produce, sound design, perform, & engineer music.
- BA magna cum laude in Music Composition/Education, Long Island University.
- Post graduate work in Paris at the Sorbonne in Ethnomusicology, at the Conservatoire Nationale Superieur de Musique in Paris in electroacoustics, and studies at the Institute of Oriental Languages.
- Post graduate work at UC Extension and Bay Area Video Coalition in film, video and multimedia
