Chad
Michelstetter
 
                Unlike
many modern-classical composers, Chad Michelstetter came to the field through
blues and heavy metal music, beginning with bass guitar at fourteen in
1989.  In 1995, he began retraining,
learning classical piano and began performing works such as Debussy’s preludes,
Bach inventions and sinfonias and had a couple of major performances of
Beethoven’s Sonata Opus Twenty-Four, which was performed at the Schaum Music
School in Mequon, WI to an audience of over 100.
                Majoring
in composition and theory at Antioch College, under award winning composer and
friend of Bela Bartok, Dr. John Rinehart he later continued pursuits in both
classical and heavy metal performance through to 2002.  He later came to Hayward, California to study
under Drs. Frank LaRocca, Jeffrey Miller and David Stein at California State
University-East Bay.  His professors are
the founders of Composers, Inc., one of the premiere modern music performing
groups here in San Francisco....