I am Mike LeVasseur, an organic musician who started playing classical piano when I was seven years old. A native of New York City, I have a degree in piano performance from CCNY. I have performed at many major venues in New York including the Playboy Club, Dangerfield's, The Village Gate, The Vanguard, and Gerde's Folk City. While in New York, I also performed and was a musical director with several off-Broadway productions, cabarets and worked at numerous piano bars. In 1976, I performed excerpts of one production at the White House for the annual Pageant of Peace. I also toured the country and overseas with Grammy award winner Kirby Stone (Bauble, Bangles and Beads) and with other acts.
Since moving to Atlanta in the early 80’s I have entertained with many bands for private parties and corporate events and has been a member of Hotlanta, Tiffany Entertainment, Celebrity Orchestra, Daddy-O-Strut, Peachtree Music Syndicate, Totally Savage, Big Daddy Jr, The Boomers, The Atlanta Machine and Nick and The Healers. In spite of my legitimate training I morph from style to style with ease. My playing is full of passion and the sheer joy of making music; I even have a Steinway in my bedroom! My playing is both inventive and inspired and I live to play.
Major Maestro is an all-original funk project that started in 1975. We recorded our first album but before we completed the project, our producer disappeared and all we had was a rough 2-track reel-to-reel master with vocals missing from several songs. In 2012, I remastered this reel-to-reel and added vocals and as you can tell by my profile pic, I recently performed these songs on Alpha Centauri!
This profile page also contains original jazz, solo piano and many electronic compositions that I wrote and performed using only electric pianos, synthesizers and various keyboards.
Enjoy this funk! It is upbeat and musically responsible! And for more content, visit my website at www.MajorMaestroMusic.com.
