Mikel Estrin: Performer / Instrumentalist / Leader / Composer, Arranger, Producer and Sound Engineer with over 20 years of performance experience on classical, traditional and ethnic instruments including frets, woodwinds, percussion, keyboards, etc. Excellent sight reading and improvising in a wide variety of styles.
Clarinets
- Eb Sopranino, Bb Soprano, C Soprano, Eb Alto, Bb Bass Clarinets
Albert system: C, B, Bb, G, Eb clarinets (all LP)
Saxophones
- Bb Soprano, Eb Alto, C Melody, Bb Tenor Saxophones
Flutes
- open and closed hole concert Flute, C & Db and Eb piccolo(s), alto flute in G, oboe, bassoon, soprano & alto recorders, misc. flutes and whistles, kaval, blackwood albert flutes & piccolos, zurna, pipiza, gaida, taep yong so, pirkiri, ney, mey, native american flutes, occarinas, shakuhachi, nose flute, slide whistles, penny whistles, Heart family flute, diavlos
Misc
- Mandolins, oud, lute-o-lin, cumbuc, saz, baglama, soprano, concert, baritone & tenor ukulele, balalaika, domra, tambura, cavaquinho, autoharp, samisen, banjo, lap steel, zourna, gaida, ocarinas, lyra, dulcimer, harmonicas, guimbard
Keyboards & Percussion
- Synthesizers, keyboards, MIDI drums, dumbek, hand drums and shakers of all sizes, traps with full array of cymbals & percussion FX
Guitars & Bass
- Acoustic, electric and 12 string guitars from Gibson, Martin, Novax, Fender Strat/Roland MIDI guitar, fretless and fretted electric bass, fanfret guitars and bass,
Recording
ProTools with Digi002, ADAT, Sonar Producer, Finale, Sibelius, Hard Disk Mac & Windows
Performance / Composition Special Abilities & Qualifications
- Fluent French and Modern Greek; conversational German and Italian; some Spanish.
- Write, arrange, produce, sound design, perform, and engineer music.
- BA magna cum laude in Music Composition/Education, Long Island University.
- Post graduate work in Paris at the Sorbonne in Ethnomusicology, at the Conservatoire Nationale Superieur de Musique in Paris in electroacoustics, and studies at the Institute of Oriental Languages.
- Post graduate work at UC Extension and Bay Area Video Coalition in film, video and multimedia
