Michael Car.-

Doctor of Musical Arts in Music Composition and Piano Performance (Minor: Music Theory and Conducting) from the University of North Texas; Masters in Music Composition and Piano Performance (Minor: Musicology) from the University of North Texas; Bachelor Degree in Music Composition and Piano Performance (Minor: Music Theory) from the University of Southern Mississippi.

Private Piano Lessons with Mamie Hanshaw: Age 8: Third Grade through Sixth Grade. Freshman to Senior Years in High School: Piano Lessons from Gigi Sykes and Dr. Lawrence Michael Oden; Composition Lessons from David Broussard and Dr. Lawrence Michael Oden; Violin Lessons from Florence Illych and Sandra Goldberg; Trumpet Lessons (Elementary, Junior High, and High School Band) from Carl Bolender, Hudson Wolfe, David Brouddard, and Michael Tunnel.

Performed extensively through high school on the Mississippi Gulf Coast both as soloist and accompanist. During undergraduate years, performed throughout the southern portion of Mississippi as soloist and accompanist; During graduate years, performed throughout the Denton and Plano, Texas area, again as soloist and accompanist. Served as Minister of Music for the Bethany Bible Church for 3 years during the early 1990s in which I conducted and performed both as soloist and accompanist for weekly church services. Functioned as Resident Composer for the First Baptist Church of Wylie from 1995 to 1998. Served as principle organist at the First Baptist Church of Lavon form 2001 to 2013 and secondary pianist from 2001 to 2008, also functioning as one of the resident composers from 2000 to present. This year, I am planning on an 8 week concert tour of local Southern Baptist Churches throughout the North Texas Area to raise money for Foreign Missionairies. My program includes 2 Preludes from Book 1 of the Well Tempered Clavichord by J.S. Bach, 2 Sonatinas by Muzio Clementi from his 6 Sonatinas, opus 36, 2 Chopin Preludes from Opus 28 (Nos. 15 and 14), and Debussy's "Doctor Gradus Ad Parnessum" from his Childrens Corner, and his Arabasque No. 1 from "2 Arabasques".

I began teaching piano privately in my senior year in High School and continued through Undergraduate and Graduate years, After Graduate School, I taught music at Keystone Christian Academy and Bethany Christian School where I taught private piano lessons after school hours from 1992-1995. I then began a career in manufacturing, but continued to teach private lessons on and off from 1995 to present. I always loved teaching piano and have felt called back to this as a primary vocation. I look forward to sharing my joy and passion for music with every student I am entrusted with and am excited about working for Taylor Robinson Music!