Mikel Bell
Piano Instructor
Mikel began playing the piano at the age of four, and started private lessons at the age of eight. As a senior in high school, he was sought after as a piano teacher, and soon found himself with twenty students of his own.
Over the next twenty years Mikel was employed as a church music director, performing and recording artist, studio musician, composer, songwriter, recording studio owner and producer/engineer, as well as piano instructor.
He returned to school in 2004, and received his Bachelor of Music in Composition in 2007 from Boise State University. There he studied composition with Prof. J. Wallis Bratt, played percussion in the BSU Symphonic Winds under the direction of Prof. Marcellus Brown, and sang in both the Jazz Choir and BSU's premiere classical chorus, Meistersingers. He received the Griff and Mary Bratt Music Composition Award for three consecutive years.
As a composer, Mikel has received numerous commissions, including works written for the Biotzetik Basque Choir, trumpeter Dawn Sandmeyer, the Kuna Middle School Choir, and several piano soloists. He served for three years as Composer-in-Residence for the Marsing School District in Idaho, writing music for high school and middle school bands and choirs. Mikel has more than forty works published by Lighthouse Music Publications, which include vocal solo and choral works, various instrumental ensembles, and piano solos. He has also composed music for radio commercials and film scores.
Mikel was the founder of the Idaho Composers Alliance, and is also a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), the American Composers Forum, the Center for the Promotion of Contemporary Composers, and the Christian Fellowship of Art Music Composers.
Mikel has over twenty-five years experience working with students of all ages, from four-year-olds up through high school, as well as adults. His students have always found him to be very engaging, fun and creative in his teaching methods.
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