Biography
of:
Michael
Dean Giamo was born and raised in the Philadelphia area. In
his early years Mike became fascinated with art, music,
medicine (he wanted
to be a heart surgeon when he was about four years old), was infatuated
with mountain climates and nature in general, fell in love with the
sea (and, therefore, ships and all manner of sailing vessels), archeology
(especially ancient Greece
and
Egypt) - and at age 6 - pipe organs. While pursuing all of his early
interests as he grew up, by
the
time
he was a teenager (with the help of his multi-talented father)
built
a small 7-rank
pipe
organ in his
parent's
home. As
Mike got older he eventually
combined
many of his interests into
career goals,
all of which
cluminated, with the advent of the digital
age and computers, into his career as a multimedia
producer and web designer. Along
the way Mike was classically trained as a pianist and later as a
pipe organist. He
eventually taught himself to play acoustic guitar, compose multi-tracked
music, and write and perform his own, live, multimedia stage shows. "The Soothsayer's Advice" is the premier CD from composer Michael Dean Giamo. A smooth blend of New Age, Classical, and Jazz motifs, this melodic CD is comprised of mystical, restful and thought-provoking music as well as various rhythmic compositions. This CD was very positively reviewed by PJ Birosek of Musik International in the July/August edition of "New Age Retailer" magazine; and the album went to the Number 1 spot on RCA's Cable Radio "Music Choice" in the Summer of 1997 as well as appearing on several 1997 Top-10 album playlists published in "New Age Voice." Michael performed an original and very visually-based show in the greater Philadelphia area to promote his music, with an eye to take it nationally someday. This CD continues to receive significant national attention on New Age and Jazz FM cable TV and radio programs. Click HERE to select full-length samples (.mp3 format) of some of Mike's compositions. Before and high school he apprenticed with Brantley A. Duddy Pipe Organ Builders of Skippack, PA, before going to work in 1973 at Austin Organs of Hartford, CT, where Mike learned much more about the fine art of pipe organ building, tonal finishing, and tuning of the instrument. After entering college 4 years later, Mike worked for two summers as part of a team rebuilding the Solo and Orchestral divisions of the great Wanamaker Organ in Philadelphia. His love of ancient music, Gregorian chant, baroque and liturgical music - and more recently - the more complex and harmonic New Age compositions that became prevalent at the turn of the new millenium have inspired Mike to produce dozens of compositions of intriguing styles (with some utilizing his voice as "instrument"). This culminated in "The Soothsayer's Advice" and led him to select sixteen compositions for inclusion on his first CD.
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"The
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