Michael Dulin

A neo-classical pianist informed as much by New Age and jazz as the great composers of the past, Michael Dulin was born September 17, 1952 in Birmingham, Alabama. He gravitated to the piano as a boy, and went on to study music at the Alabama School of Fine Arts as well as Julliard. He garnered attention as a finalist at the 1985 Carnegie Hall International Piano Competition, and he spent time touring as the keyboardist for the beloved Motown act The Temptations. After forming his own record label, he issued his his recording debut in 1998 with Michael Dulin Plays Beethoven, Mendelssohn & Claude Debussy, a traditional classical album. The follow-up, 1999’s A Nice Boy from Brooklyn, concentrated on works from George Gershwin. For 2002’s One I Waited For and 2003’s Atmospheres, Dulin composed original works that revealed the depth of his interest in New Age music. He brought a New Age spin to established classical pieces from Chopin, Debussy, and Liszt on 2004’s Timeless, and reworked a number of classic Christmas songs into his style for 2005’s Christmas at Our House. After a brief hiatus from recording, he returned in 2008 with Follow the River, which incorporated jazz elements into his sound. The next decade saw the release of albums such as the traditionalist Timeless II (2011), which featured the notable “Alone”, a reworking of Chopin’s “Prelude in E minor, Opus 28”, and 2015’s My Beloved, an entire album of new work inspired by and dedicated to his beloved wife.

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