Alex Lacamoire Interview | Keyboards for Live Performance | Berklee Online | Adriana Balic

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Cuban-American composer Alex Lacamoire talks about his musical beginnings and shares the practices that made him a better musician, in this interview with Adriana Balic, for her Berklee Online course, Keyboards for Live Performance: Techniques and Technology. Lacamoire emphasizes the importance of transcribing, saying he learned a lot by trying to figure out the parts of an arrangement using only the ears and the brain. When playing the piano, he says he likes to incorporate all the different instruments of a piece into it. He discusses how time-consuming the writing process can be, and how it’s much easier with today’s technology, but holds the belief that the old school process was an important aspect of his growth.

Alex Lacamoire is a Berklee alum (1995) who studied jazz, arranging, and film scoring, majoring in professional music. He was born in Los Angeles, but moved to Miami with his family when he was nine years old. He has played piano since the age of four, attended fine arts and performing arts middle and high schools, followed by Berklee College of Music in Boston. Lacamoire is a Tony- and Grammy-winner, and he earned the Kennedy Center Honor in 2018. His most successful work was with the musical theater production of “Hamilton.” He was the pianist/keyboardist, conductor, musical director, arranger, orchestrator, composer, and music producer of the cast album.

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ABOUT ADRIANA BALIC:

Adriana Balic has toured the world as a member of popstar P!NK’s band since 2003, on keys, backing vocals, and guitar. In November 2019, Balic completed P!NK’s Beautiful Trauma World Tour, which broke records, playing to more than 3 million people and making it the 10th highest grossing tour in Billboard Boxscore’s history. Balic’s media credits include “Saturday Night Live,” Apple Music, “Top of the Pops,” iHeartRadio Live, and “American Idol.” Other artists Balic has played with include Gwen Stefani, Wrabel, Sheila E., Brenda Russell, Chris Stapleton, Peabo Bryson, and the US National Touring Theater Production of “Jersey Boys.” She plays Roland keyboards and is a Roland Artist. She has been on faculty at Berklee Online as the Pop/Rock Vocals instructor since 2010.

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