Misha has written more then 130 works for a variety of instrumentations,
as well as music for over thirty theater shows, including an original
score for Y2K Survival Guide with Leonard Nemoy. Misha has composed
a significant amount of music for network television, including programs
such as Good Morning America, All My Children, Lincoln High and One
Life to Live (ABC), Passions (NBC), The Chris Isaak Show (Showtime)
Young and the Restless and First Monday (CBS), and DVD release of
Laverne and Shirley. Among his nineteen books are the Mel Bay Publications
best-sellers Jazz Piano Chords (nr.1 in Jazz Piano since 2002), Jazz
Piano Scales, Jazz Piano for the Young Beginner, Jazz Piano Album,
Step By Step, How to Improvise Classical Music on Piano and Piano
for Adults.
Mr. Stefanuk was a monthly columnist for Creative Keyboard and
served as adjudicator at the Chopin Youth Piano Competition in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin in 2004-06. Mr. Stefanuk was a prize-winner of the Stereotypes
and Nations Composition Competition held by Muzica Centrum Art Society
in Cracow, Poland for his composition Equinokse for oboe, string
trio and prepared piano, and of the Concerto Aria Composition Competition
at Belmont University for his piece The New American Symphony. He
was also named Outstanding Piano Player at the l29th Lionel Hampton
Jazz Festival, and has won full scholarships at Belmont University,
Washington State University, and Skidmore Summer Jazz Institute.
Misha and his
wife, Evan, teach over one hundred students at Johnson Ferry Conservatory
of Music in Atlanta Georgia and privately. Among them are recording
artists, TV personalities, winners of national and regional competitions,
and teachers. Misha's students attended a number of prestigious
music schools in US, and abroad. Mr. Stefanuk has released over
twenty CDs varying from Contemporary Classical to Jazz, including
a recording of Bach’s Inventions. In 2007 Mr. Stefanuk became
the musical director of The
New Opera, the company dedicated to produce new operas
written in English and for contemporary audience with productions
and CD recordings of Misha’s operas An
American Story: George Gershwin, Wolfy,
The
Kitty Who Lost Her Meow and The
True Story of Wolf and Red Riding Hood.
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