3127 Betlou James Place

Baltimore, MD 21207

(410)944-4234

jazzstreet@aol.com

Biography

09/01/01

Pianist GEORGE SPICKA has composed over 300 diverse works ranging from jazz
to contemporary classical.

He founded JAZZ STREET STATION, an ensemble that performs the work of Greater
Metropolitan Baltimore area jazz composers. In 1994, he engineered and
produced the ensemble's debut CD, "TheRhythm Of Love," which was selected to
appear on the 1994 Grammy Nominations Ballot and nominated for a Washington
Area Music Association award in the contemporary jazz category. In the summer
of 2000, "Flashback" one of his compositions from this CD, achieved the rank
of #13 out of 800 listings in the MP3.com jazz vocalist genre.

Under his leadership as Artist Director and pianist, the group has performed
over six dozen concerts throughout the Mid-Atlantic region including the
Kennedy Centerfor the Performing Arts, Oregon Ridge Park, Blues Alley,
Baltimore Museum of Art, Wilmington Cityfest, King of France Tavern, Walters'
Art Gallery, Frederick Festival of the Arts, Charleston Jazz Series and the
Shore JazzSociety.

The group was selected as Round 3 Semifinalists in Musicians Magazine's "1996
Best Unsigned Band Competition," the only jazz group from Maryland in over
3,000 entries.

1996 saw the release of the CD single, "Go Home/Ride Me Home" by him and his
wife's original music roots rock band, "Jane Lamar & Snidley'sDaughter,"
which received extensive acclaim and airplay in Europe.  The same year, he
performed for 6 weeks as the on stage pianist in Center Stage's production of
Noel Coward's "Private Lives".

In 1997, they entered into a publishing agreement with Transition Music,
(Hollywood) and subsequently have had a song placed in the New Image
Entertainment film production, "October 22nd."

Honors: A former resident of Silver Spring, MD, he was nominated for the D.C.
Mayor's Award for "Outstanding Emerging Artist."  That same year, he was a
finalist in American Mensa's "Arthur SIG Exchequer Award" for artistic
excellence. He competed in the First Annual Theolonius Monk International
Jazz Piano Competition and has been awarded two music composition grants by
the Maryland State Arts Council for demonstrating "exceptional creativity and
originality."  He performed as a solo pianist for the Honorable John Conyers
(D-Mich) and the Congressional Black Caucus, and was featured as a
performer/panelist at the D.C. Federation of Musicians Jazz Symposium.  His
biography is listed in "Who's Who in the East" and "2000 Outstanding
Musicians of the 20th Century."

Education: He attended the University of Maryland as a Music Education
Major.  He has studied improvisation and composition privately with
internationally acclaimed jazz pianists/composers JessicaWilliams and Marc
Copeland, and studied composition and orchestration with 20th Century
composer John Stevens, himself a student of Pierre Boulez.

Media: His activities have been highlighted in International Musician, the
National Jazz Service Organization Jazz Journal, Music Monthly, the
Washington Post, the Baltimore Sun, Baltimore City Paper, and Alive magazine.

Radio features have included WBJC, WJHU, WEAA, WPFW and WTRI.

Organizations: He currently holds membership in the following: American
Federation of Musicians (locals 40-543/161-710), Broadcast Music Inc.(BMI),
American Mensa, Baltimore Composers Forum (Composer/Recording Engineer),
Baltimore Songwriters Association (Secretary).

Items Of Interest: Hobbies include fossil collecting and painting.  For two
years, he was a docent in the Smithsonian Institute's Museum of Natural
History Naturalist Center, where he reorganized and added over 100 new
specimens to the local rocks collection.  He has completed several hundred
paintings and has had several dozen pen & ink drawings published.