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Biography
For over 30 years, Spencer Brewer has been a composer/pianist/performer on the cutting edge of instrumental music- inspiring audiences and listeners worldwide with his piano skills and hauntingly unique melodies.
With 17 solo and duet albums currently to his credit, he received acclaim for his #1 hit record on Billboard, R & R, The Gavin Report and the Mac Report, "The Pipers Rhythm". His 1989 release "Dorians Legacy", went #1 on the charts, lodging in Billboards Top 10 chart for 9 months in the NAC market. His release, "Torches on the Lake" with world famous windman Paul McCandless charted on Billboards Contemporary Jazz chart and won rave reviews nationwide.
Spencer's music is being heard and used the world over daily due to his unique gift for weaving memorable, enchanting melodies within beautifully lush arrangements. His music has been featured on The Opray Winfrey Show, The Barbara Walters Show, the 1988, 1992 and 96 Olympic World games, NPR, CNN, virtually every airline in the skies and 100's of other TV programs and movies across the globe on a daily basis. He wrote the National YMCA theme song, the National Big Brothers/Big Sisters Theme Song, the theme song for the Japanese Postal Service and scored Lee Mun Wah's award winning films on racism "The Color of Fear" and "Last Chance for Eden'. He also contributed music for feature films such as "Heartwood" with Hillary Swank & Jason Robards, 'The Gifts of Grief" with Isabel Allende and Reverend Cecil Williams and was honored as the National Musical Ambassador for Big Brothers/Big Sisters for five years performing across America with many celebrities. |
In 1995 he started Laughing Coyote Productions, spencerbrewer.com, a digital recording studio dedicated to recording and producing audiophile recordings for the acoustic music market. Some of his clients have included Alex de Grassi, Joe Craven, Holly Near, Gene Parsons, Barbara Higbie, Michael Manring, Phil Aaberg, Darol Anger, Steve Erquiaga and many others. In 1999 alone, he engineered and produced 24 recordings out of his Northern California facility with over 200 recordings made out of LCP to date. One of his hobbies is collecting vintage microphones to help the myriad of recording projects that cycle through LCP.
In 1998, he was the founder of the startup corporation, HighWired Inc, highwiredinc.com, MyFunVoice.com, mixxee.com. HW is a 'first to market' company providing the world-wide Telecom and web-based messaging industry with the ability to create and combine a wide palette of rich-media content with a person's voice message to enable users to have a more unique, creative and fun experience on virtually every platform of messaging available. HighWired makes messaging fun and easy across all digital and web based platforms worldwide. The entire 2500+ content library was made at his facility. |
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In 2003, with two partners, he started the Ukiah Music Center, ukiahmusic.com, a music store where 'musicians are helping friends make music'. His passion, which also helps fuel the store, is restoring, buying, selling, tuning and doing virtually anything with the piano. In any given year he works on 100's of pianos and is a member of the Piano Technicians Guild. From his love of the piano, he also hosts once a month a radio show entitled, 'The Wonderful World of Pianos' which documents the composers, players and manufacturers lives and music since the inception of the piano. The show is heard on the local NPR station KZYX, KZYX.org.
Spencer firmly believes in contributing back to his local community of Mendocino County. While donating dozens of private concerts over the years for local non-profit agencies, sixteen years ago he started and still runs the highly successful "Sundays in the Park" free six-part summer concert series with over 20,000 attendees a summer in Ukiah, CA. It is also the only on-going solar powered concert series in the world. He has also created the series' 'Live at the Playhouse', 'The Professional Pianist Series', 'Happination', 'Bandslam in the Plaza', 'Acoustic Café at the Center' and is a consultant to many performance organizations throughout the area regionally. |
