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. Dr. Martineau has recorded more than ten CDs in various genres, and has also been featured on numerous other artists' recordings, as pianist, music director, and producer. He provides scores, arrangements, original compositions, soundtracks, sound design, accompaniment, private instruction, and musical direction for a diverse and eclectic client base.

Dr. Martineau works in multiple capacities with many different idioms and styles, from world fusion and jazz, to avant-garde, industrial, rock, pop, and classical. Last year he orchestrated string arrangements by Vanessa Carlton for her new album "Heroes and Thieves", released in October 2007. He has also authored a book on music theory released October 2008 entitled "The Elements of Music," published by Walker Books/Bloomsbury and distributed both nationally and internationally. His film scores have been featured in documentaries broadcast on PBS stations around the US since 1998. He also provides music cues and backgrounds for a large variety of multimedia projects. He has been playing the piano for 34 years, performing since 1989 at numerous venues in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York, and most recently, the 10th International Festival of Dance and Music in Bangkok, Thailand. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.