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Browse piano sheets by Marc Sabatella on Zen Virtual Piano. Marc Sabatella is a pianist, composer and educator who has lived in Colorado since 1988. Before moving to Pueblo in 2024 he performed regularly as a jazz pianist in the Denver area and taught at the University of Denver, Regis University and elsewhere. He was trained in classical music and grew up on pop but is mostly recognized professionally as a jazz pianist. Being trained in classical music while growing up on pop and recognised as a jazz pianist hints at a musician comfortable crossing idiomatic lines. He has been based in Colorado since graduating from college with degrees in math and computer science; after leaving Berkeley in 1988 he moved to Fort Collins to work for Hewlett-Packard and began playing professionally throughout Colorado. In 2005 he went back to school for a master’s degree in composition at the Lamont School of Music at the University of Denver. Employment, professional playing and teaching in one career suggest a musician at ease in more than one kind of room. He is the author of A Jazz Improvisation Primer, one of the first online music education resources at the dawn of the World Wide Web, which was issued in print in 1996 as A Whole Approach to Jazz Improvisation, and for the past decade he has been known worldwide as one of the developers and chief proponents of the free and open source music notation app MuseScore Studio. Writing a primer in the early days of the web and later helping to build a free notation program suggests a habit of sharing tools openly. While teaching beginning music theory courses he worked with a couple of students who were blind and discovered that there was little support for accessibility in traditional music software and educational systems; a big focus of his work over the past decade has been making music software, music education and notated music available and usable to musicians who are blind or visually impaired. A classroom encounter with blind students points to the origin of what has since become a decade of work on accessibility. As a performer he is comfortable solo or with various configurations of a group he calls the Spanish Inquisition. His composition “Mystic Reverie,” written in the late 1990s, was a tribute to the larger-scale works of Charles Mingus, and when scaling big-band writing down for an octet he wanted to preserve the saxophone soli sections, the brass-dominated shout choruses and the contrapuntal sections. A tribute to the larger works of Charles Mingus, together with an effort to keep big-band features in a smaller ensemble, suggests a composer who thinks in sections and ensembles as much as in solos.
Browse piano sheets by Marc Sabatella on Zen Virtual Piano.
Marc Sabatella is a pianist, composer and educator who has lived in Colorado since 1988. Before moving to Pueblo in 2024 he performed regularly as a jazz pianist in the Denver area and taught at the University of Denver, Regis University and elsewhere. He was trained in classical music and grew up on pop but is mostly recognized professionally as a jazz pianist. Being trained in classical music while growing up on pop and recognised as a jazz pianist hints at a musician comfortable crossing idiomatic lines.
He has been based in Colorado since graduating from college with degrees in math and computer science; after leaving Berkeley in 1988 he moved to Fort Collins to work for Hewlett-Packard and began playing professionally throughout Colorado. In 2005 he went back to school for a master’s degree in composition at the Lamont School of Music at the University of Denver. Employment, professional playing and teaching in one career suggest a musician at ease in more than one kind of room.
He is the author of A Jazz Improvisation Primer, one of the first online music education resources at the dawn of the World Wide Web, which was issued in print in 1996 as A Whole Approach to Jazz Improvisation, and for the past decade he has been known worldwide as one of the developers and chief proponents of the free and open source music notation app MuseScore Studio. Writing a primer in the early days of the web and later helping to build a free notation program suggests a habit of sharing tools openly. While teaching beginning music theory courses he worked with a couple of students who were blind and discovered that there was little support for accessibility in traditional music software and educational systems; a big focus of his work over the past decade has been making music software, music education and notated music available and usable to musicians who are blind or visually impaired. A classroom encounter with blind students points to the origin of what has since become a decade of work on accessibility.
As a performer he is comfortable solo or with various configurations of a group he calls the Spanish Inquisition. His composition “Mystic Reverie,” written in the late 1990s, was a tribute to the larger-scale works of Charles Mingus, and when scaling big-band writing down for an octet he wanted to preserve the saxophone soli sections, the brass-dominated shout choruses and the contrapuntal sections. A tribute to the larger works of Charles Mingus, together with an effort to keep big-band features in a smaller ensemble, suggests a composer who thinks in sections and ensembles as much as in solos.
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He is a jazz pianist, composer and educator in Colorado, the author of A Jazz Improvisation Primer, and one of the developers and chief proponents of the free and open source notation app MuseScore Studio.
He works on making music software, music education and notated music available and usable to musicians who are blind or visually impaired.
He returned to school in 2005 for a master’s degree in composition at the Lamont School of Music at the University of Denver.