Disturbed (Mark Dillon)

I will be playing live once again this time in the city of Oshawa at Ochiba~Con 2014 on Saturday October 4th at  6pm. I am very late posting this because I’m also helping to run the convention (thought I’d give that a try). During some practice time today I was fooling around and recorded this preview for fun.

Ochibacon 2014 preview

I will be performing at ConBravo! the evening of July 18th as well as in and around the con for its’ duration, see you there!

On July 11th I’m going to be performing at Northern anime festival in Oshawa Ontario Canada at the student centre of Durham College at 14:45. Hope to see you there

Another May has come around and Anime North is now over. This year I enjoyed my time even more than the previous years and it made me realize how much more I could do when it comes to video game music on piano.

Performances

I played three times each for a coulpe of hours this year. One performance was Friday afternoon to evening in the TCC (toronto congress center) when I first arrived. I really enjoy playing in the TCC because large groups of people stop by every few minutes. The sheet music I brought to hand out went very quickly and I filled as many requests as I could.

The next performance was a scheduled concert in the Renaissance. In the past scheduled concerts have not normally drawn as many people as just stopping and playing somewhere but this time there were so many people that there were not enough chairs (I will request a larger area next year). I really enjoyed having such an enthusiastic crowd it gives me all the more motivation to practice and learn new pieces.

The third performance was similar to the first one in the TCC but was in the doubletree hallway instead. Overall I would say I had the most fun this year of all the AN conventions I’ve attended and I look forward to coming again next year.

To do

I made a few commitments while interacting with all of you and don’t think I’ll just forget it. Below is what I intend to do next after getting feedback from everyone at my concerts

1. Post sheet music for my mega man arrangements
2. Arrange, perform and post sheet music for the “prologue” from the final fantasy series
3. Pick and arrange a Konami tune like contra, castlevania, turtles etc

Let me know if I took any other requests from you that I did not list here.

Once again I will be performing live at Anime North. I will be there Friday May 22nd, Saturday May 23rd and Sunday May 24th. I never plan out all of my performance locations and times but I will know (soon) some of them and I will post them as soon as they are confirmed. Feel free to stop by and say hello.

If you follow any of the work I do on piano you probably noticed that my site was dormant, with little content and infrequent updates for the past year or so. After a lot of time spent thinking I decided to put some priority back in my music and one of its’ foundations has always been arrangements of video game music.

I took the time to upgrade my site. Soon I should have all of my old stuff up, for now have a look around and if you want let me know what you think.