I began to understand how playing-from-listening actually worked. I just hunt-and-punched my way around for a week or so till I made some sense of it. "The very first tune I worked on was 'Blue Moon.' I already knew the melody, but had never played it without reading the music. I intuitively knew that there was something very wrong with this picture, and decided to do something about it. Yet, as odd as it may seem, many classical musicians, despite being vastly well-trained, often cannot play a simple song without consulting the sheet music. " It took two years of arduous, disciplined practice to train my ear to do something that some musicians do automatically. Pandolfi has strong followings on Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora, and all the major streaming sites.Īs a classically trained musician, Pandolfi had to teach himself to play music by ear.
It remains his top-selling album to date, with sales in excess of six hundred thousand units. His first recording, "By Request" is a compilation of Broadway and movie themes arranged for piano solo. He was a featured performer at the 1984 Summer Olympics, playing " Rhapsody in Blue." During this time he also studied comedy writing (an ability he was to use many years later to write his own show) and learned to play for comedy improv.Īfter spending 15 years in LA, Pandolfi moved with his family back to Greenville, where he created his recording label, MagicMusic Productions. He worked there for six years, performing with such entertainers as Jay Leno, David Letterman, and Robin Williams, among others. It was here that he became one of the house pianists for the Comedy Store. Upon returning to the United States, Pandolfi spent two years in Denver as part of a house band, Buddy Brown and the Bittersuite, and then moved to Los Angeles where he played for dance classes, acting seminars, actor/singer auditions, and in various piano lounges. In the evenings, he played at the Caribbean Beach Hotel, as part of a Calypso band called "The Castaways." From there he moved to Sussex, England for another two years, playing pubs and restaurants. Following his piano teacher, Thomas Redcay, he transferred to Texas Tech, where he earned his Bachelor of Music degree.Īfter college, Pandolfi moved to St Thomas in the US Virgin Islands for two years as a chorus teacher in a public school. He transferred to Baylor University, where he studied for two years. He attended Greenville High School, then Furman University, where he did his preparatory studies in music. He began studying piano at the age of five, and made his symphonic debut with the Greenville Symphony Orchestra at age 14, performing the Mozart piano concerto no. Pandolfi was born in New York and grew up in Greenville, South Carolina, where he still resides.
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