G. F. MLELY
by Carol Madden
Pianist-composer G. F. Mlely has been featured artist and composer in
concert, festival, and club venues throughout Europe and the United States.
His songs (writing both words and music) and compositions have been produced
and recorded by artists diverse from one another as Freddie Hubbard, George
Harrison, The Cunninghams (on a Grammy-nominated album), (guitarist) John
Tesh, Phil Perry, et al. Threnody, a composition from his critically
acclaimed solo piano album Re-Entry was picked for Typewriter
Dreams, a New York theater production produced and presented by the
Xoregos Performing Company.
G. F. Mlely is a creator of avant-garde multidisciplinary works. His
choral compositions have premiered in Hawai’i and in Los Angeles. His one-act
musical theater piece, And All That Jazz, ran 4 months onstage in San
Francisco, and Jazz Piano, his video series, ran over 2 years on Olelo
Television of Hawai’i.
He is author of essays (www.jazcraft.net/essaysmenu.html)
and commentaries (www.jazcraft.net/archives.html) on the
art, field, and politics of jazz and songwriting. He is author of a book,
“New Music And The American Christian - A Critical Look” (www.jazcraft.net/nmatacsegments.html).
He is author of “The 8-Tone Quarto-Modes Concept” (www.jazcraft.net/8tone.html),
a theoretical work which introduces a newly identified chord he proves
out as the diminished major.
G. F. Mlely is recipient of much international accolade (www.jazcraft.net/acclamations.html),
as well as having been subject of numerous articles, reviews, and profiles.
See journalist Nathan Gold’s article, G. F. Mlely, A Trail Of Endurance
on The G. F. Mlely Page [see below].
Schooling includes classical composition and piano at Danmark Musikskole
in Copenhagen, Denmark; orchestration and composition at Sherman School
of Music in Los Angeles; political science and psychology at Rutgers University
in New Jersey; and jazz piano and improvisation in private studies with
Lennie Tristano in New York.
He taught music theory, improvisation, and songwriting in San Francisco
(S.F. Community Music Center), Los Angeles, Honolulu (Pacific
Songwriters Workshop), organized student jazz ensembles in New York
City (Neighborhood House), Honolulu (Holy Family Catholic
Academy), and in Honolulu started the nation’s first secondary-school
Songwriting Workshop (Kaimuki High School). See Susan Essoyen’s
article, (http://starbulletin.com/2003/03/23/news/story4.html)
Memberships, prior and current, include the National Association of Recording
Arts and Sciences, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers,
the Songwriters Guild of America, the Music Teachers Association of California,
and the American Federation of Musicians.
G. F. Mlely has recently returned from a decade of living in Hawaii to
California, where he currently resides with his wife in Long Beach.
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