Biography afm melanie

Biography: Melanie grew up in Rosenheim, Germany and received her Master of Science at the University of Applied Sciences in Linz, Austria.
Singer and guitarist Melanie Durrant of Local 290 (Sudbury, ON) still asserts that performing live is “the best feeling in the world.”.
My recently founded research group (July 2022) aims to decipher the molecular basis underlying oral texture perception.

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Melanie Lynne Brooks

Biography

Born in Hartland, Wisconsin, Melanie Howell-Brooks lives in the Boston area and performs throughout New England and internationally. She enjoys playing across a variety of genres from jazz to classical, rock to pit orchestras. Most notably she has appeared with a number of world-class artists including Aretha Franklin, The Temptations, The Four Tops, Johnny Mathis, the Grammy-winning 8-Bit Big Band, Grammy-winning Generation Gap Jazz Orchestra, Jerry Bergonzi, David Liebman, Marshall Gilkes, Tiger Okoshi, Walter Smith III, Antonio Sanchez, Miguel Zenón, Anat Cohen, Charlie Rosen, Steven Feifke, Bijon Watson, and Oliver Lake. She also has appeared as a featured soloist with the Waltham Symphony Orchestra. While she predominantly appears on the baritone saxophone and bass clarinet, she also frequently plays other flutes, clarinets, and saxophones. She also speaks and understands Japanese at an intermediate level.

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Now is the right time to become an American Federation of Musicians member. From ragtime to rap, from the early phonograph to today's digital recordings, the AFM has been there for its members. And now there are more benefits available to AFM members than ever before, including a multi-million dollar pension fund, excellent contract protection, instrument and travelers insurance, work referral programs and access to licensed booking agents to keep you working.

As an AFM member, you are part of a membership of more than 80,000 musicians. Experience has proven that collective activity on behalf of individuals with similar interests is the most effective way to achieve a goal. The AFM can negotiate agreements and administer contracts, procure valuable benefits and achieve legislative goals. A single musician has no such power.

The AFM has a proud history of managing change rather than being victimized by it. We find strength in adversity, and when the going gets tough, we get creative - all on your behalf.

Like the industry, the AFM is also changing and evolving, and its pol

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Biography

Melanie Shore’s dynamic musical fluency on the piano and Hammond B3 has established her as an accomplished performer, sought-after studio musician, music director, and award-winning composer and arranger.

Over her career, she has performed with an array of artists, including Chuck Berry, Il Divo, Lea Salonga, David Archuleta, Debby Boone, Restless Heart, and Teddy Gentry from the Grammy Award-winning group Alabama, among many others. Melanie recently completed her stay as associate music director/conductor for the first U.S. national tour of Roald Dahl and Tim Minchin’s Matilda The Musical.

Melanie is currently music directing for Michael Feinstein’s Great American Songbook Foundation. Formerly, she served as musical director and arranger, as well as played keyboard/Hammond B3 organ alongside pop and country multi-platinum artist Collin Raye. She has been featured in and is a regular contributor to Joseph Gordon-Leavitt’s collaborative musical community, hitRECord. In addition, she has played for many national Broadway tours and also tours with the soul/funk/fusion gr