Best selling Mel Bay author Misha V. Stefanuk started playing piano at the age of 5. He composed his first piece when he was 9. Mr. Stefanuk studied at the Moscow Studio of Music Improvisation Art, the Moscow Conservatory School, the Russian Academy of Music, Belmont University, Skidmore Jazz Institute, and Washington State University. He has written more then 90 works for a variety of instrumentations, as well as music for more than 30 theater shows. Y2K Survival Guide with Leonard Nemoy, for which he wrote the music, has sold more than 70,000 copies. Misha has composed a significant amount of music for network television, including programs such as One Life to Live(ABC), All My Children(ABC), First Monday (CBS) and the Chris Isaak Show (Showtime). Among his other works are the Mel Bay bestseller Jazz Piano Chords and Young Person’s Guide to Jazz Music. Misha V. Stefanuk judged the Chopin Youth Piano Competition in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Mr. Stefanuk is a prize winner of the Stereotypes and Nations Composition Competition held by Muzica Centrum Art Society in Cracow, Poland for his composition Equinokse for oboe, string trio and prepared piano, and of the Concerto Aria Composition Competition at Belmont University for his piece The New American Symphony. He was also named Outstanding Piano Player at the l29th Annual Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival, and won full scholarships at Belmont University, Washington State University, and Skidmore Summer Jazz Institute. Mr. Stefanuk has more than 20 CD’s commercially available varying from Contemporary Classical to Jazz, New Age and Pop.