Guest Biography
Information on Michael "Piano Squall" Gluck
| Name: | Gluck, Michael "Piano Squall" |
| Title: | Pianist |
| Resides: | Redwood City, CA USA |
| Home Page: | http://www.michaelgluck.com/ |
| Biography: | 
Michael "Piano Squall" Gluck performs videogame/anime music piano concerts to fundraise for charity.
Since 2003, Gluck has given concerts in seventeen different states to benefit organizations such as the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Race for the Cure, Baltimore Reads, the Maryland Food Bank, the Matthew Foster Foundation, and Tsunami Relief. He has been a musical guest at thirty-one anime conventions, including Sakura-Con 06 and 07, A-Kon 06, and Otakon 05, where he performed for an audience of three thousand people. Gluck donates all proceeds from concerts to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society to help find a cure for the disease that destroyed his grandmother's life. In 2007, Gluck released his debut charity album, entitled GAME, which became the first videogame/anime piano solo CD to be published by an independent musician. Proceeds from GAME benefit the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. In 2008, Gluck was employed by videogame publisher EA to create an orchestral arrangement of the Ultima Online main theme, which was featured in the official trailer entitled "Fall of Magincia". Gluck's music has been featured by IGN, MTV, Newtype Magazine, GamesRadar, GameDaily, The Otaku, Destructoid, VGMusic, RPGamer, RPGFan, The Armchair Empire, SquareSound, QJ, and Music4Games. On his website, MichaelGluck.com, Gluck makes the sheet music of his original arrangements available for free download, with the option to donate to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. |
| Guest at: | ConnectiCon 2004 - July 16-18 in West Hartford, CT Yasumi Con 2004 - August 14-15 in Miami, FL Kunicon St. Louis 2005 - March 4-6 in St. Louis, MO Tekkoshocon 2005 - April 8-10 in Monroeville, PA T-MODE 2005 - May 13-14 in Virginia Beach, VA Kunicon Atlanta 2005 - May 27-29 in Atlanta, GA Kunicon Denver 2005 - June 17-19 in Denver, CO Yasumicon 2005 - July 9 in Miami, FL ConnectiCon 2005 - July 15-17 in Hartford, CT Otakon 2005 - August 19-21 in Baltimore, MD Llamacon 2006 - February 25 in Great Barrington, MA Nohcon 2006 - March 4 in Amherst, NY Sakura-Con 2006 - March 24-26 in Seattle, WA Tekkoshocon 2006 - March 31 - April 2 in Monroeville, PA Anime St. Louis 2006 - April 8 in St. Louis, MO A-Kon 2006 - June 9-11 in Dallas, TX Anime Mid-Atlantic 2006 - June 16-18 in Richmond, VA ConnectiCon 2006 - July 7-9 in Hartford, CT Ikasucon 2006 - July 14-16 in Cincinnati, OH AOD 2006: San Francisco Animation Convention 2006 - August 4-6 in San Francisco, CA Yasumicon 2006 - August 12-13 in Miami, FL Anime Festival Wichita 2006 - August 18-20 in Wichita, KS KumoriCon 2006 - September 2-4 in Portland, OR Nan Desu Kan 2006 - October 6-8 in Denver, CO Sakura-Con 2007 - April 6-8 in Seattle, WA Anime St. Louis 2007 - April 20-22 in St. Louis, MO Anime Mid-Atlantic 2007 - June 15-17 in Richmond, VA 27 guest appearances |
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