Stan at a keyboard of the “electronic” variety
Please allow me to introduce myself. My name is Stan Owen, Jr.
With my mother as my teacher, I began studying the piano and music theory at the age of seven. My father did much to encourage progress in my studies—both musical and school-related. As an adolescent, my musical accomplishments were so consistently rewarding that I never sincerely considered any other occupations/vocations than musical ones.
I attended Birmingham-Southern College (BSC, 69-70), the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH, 70-71), and then Samford University (SU, Birmingham, AL, USA, 71-73). I graduated from Samford with a degree in Music-Education with an emphasis in piano-performance.
Thereafter, I spent 10 years with music as my primary vocation – teaching music, tuning pianos, serving as church organist, nightclub-band musician, and piano soloist. These years were productive but nearly ended in my starvation and financial ruin. Facing dire economic consequences, I went back to school, taking both undergraduate and graduate computer science and software engineering coursework. I completed my Masters of Science coursework in 1995.
I began my software-engineering career at Intergraph Corporation (Huntsville, AL, USA) in 1985. During the years since then, until last year I have consistently worked in the area of digital cartography. The maps that our customers make are used by civilian and military mapping-agencies and public-safety dispatch agencies in the US and throughout the world. During this time I have lead software development and maintenance teams of various sizes. As part of this work, I have been enriched by highly effective, cooperative work with team-members in India.
I nurture a small business, Creative Minds’ Music, that specializes in producing custom musical accompaniments and arrangements for church, school, dance, and theatre. My electronic music recording studio uses Apple Macintosh with Digital Performer as my recording/digital audio workstation software. Solo classical and jazz piano performance continues as one of my primary interests. To that end, one of my lifetime projects is my goal to eventually record all the significant piano pieces that I’ve ever performed. Please revisit us to see what’s new. Stay tuned!
The goal of CreativeMindsMusic Musings is to share information about the music I produce. I look forward to your comments and requests, using the email form below, for information about our custom accompaniments, performances, and audio/video productions.
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