The Team

Jason Martineau

webmaster
graphic designer
editor
music consultant

Jason is a true Renaissance Man, who has been working on a wide variety of projects with Michael since 2000.  These have included: designing and maintaining this very website; graphics for six CDs, numerous posters, postcards, and flyers; editing teaching articles, grants, and scores; consultation on musical arrangements and general organizational development. Presently Jason is providing consultation for Michael's upcoming book, "The Art of Musical Creativity."

Jason Martineau is an award-winning pianist, composer, arranger, and instructor, and has been active in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1995. He has composed numerous works for orchestra, chamber ensembles, solo piano, and chorus, as well as a full-length musical, multiple film scores, and over 200 songs, both instrumental and vocal. Classically trained in composition at the University of South Florida, San Francisco Conservatory, and Manhattan School of Music, Mr. Martineau has recorded more than ten CDs of his own, and runs his own music business. He has also been featured on numerous other artists' recordings, as pianist, music director, and at times producer. He provides scores, arrangements, original compositions, soundtracks, sound design, accompaniment, private instruction, and musical direction for a diverse and eclectic client base. Recently he orchestrated string arrangements by Vanessa Carlton and Stephan Jenkins for Vanessa's album "Heroes and Thieves", released in October 2007. Mr. Martineau works in multiple capacities with many different idioms and styles, from world fusion and jazz, to avant-garde, industrial, rock, pop, and classical. He has been playing the piano for 32 years, performing since 1989 at numerous venues in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, and New York. 

www.jasonmartineau.com
www.martineauarts.com

Andrew Reissiger

administrative assistant
researcher
studio support

Andrew’s work with Michael is multifaceted. It includes: stage managing and designing/creating promotional materials for all four of Michael's project bands, investigating performance venues, researching for Michael's upcoming Art of Practicing book, creating and maintaining listings at music teachers’ directory websites, and overseeing the maintenance of Second Sight Studio.

Andrew Reissiger is a composer and accomplished multi-instrumentalist on the nylon-string guitar, electric guitar, and Bolivian charango.  For a decade, he has helped to bring the charango—a traditional Andean instrument—into the world of jazz, chamber music, African and Balkan styles.  
 
Andrew is co-founder of the group "Dromedary", an internationally recognized world music ensemble that filters traditional forms into new compositions and arrangements for Bolivian charango, Turkish cümbüs, Appalachian lap dulcimer, mandolin, and guitar.  He has collaborated with Puerto Ricans Roy Brown Ramirez, Tito Auger, & Puerto Rican-American Tao Rodriguez-Seeger on Que Vaya Bién, a CD that Jaime Torres Torres of El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR) calls “one of ten best productions of 2006.”  Andrew also regularly performs with Ugandan vocalist Omega Bugembe Okello.

With seven critically acclaimed recordings to his name, Andrew Reissiger has had the opportunity to perform in Puerto Rico, Europe, and throughout the United States.  He has shared the stage with the likes of Fania All Stars member Luiz “Perico” Ortiz and Eddy Navia of Sukay and has opened shows for Inti-Illimani, trumpeter Dave Douglas, guitarists Al Di Meola and John Jorgenson, dobroist Jerry Douglas, and even Pete Seeger.  Andrew has performed on National Public Radio’s Mountain Stage and his music can occasionally be heard in between news stories on All Things Considered.

Andrew Reissiger has also produced and consulted for documentary film.  He hosted the popular radio show "World Tour" for 3 years which aired statewide on Georgia Public Broadcasting.  He has produced segments for KALW in San Francisco and The World Vision Report.