"Dr. Jason M is an award-winning composer, pianist, arranger, and instructor, and has been active in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1995. He is a graduate of the University of South Florida, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and Manhattan School of Music, and 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 over twelve albums 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. M works in many different idioms and styles, from world fusion and jazz, to industrial, rock, pop, and classical. In 2007 he orchestrated string arrangements by Vanessa Carlton for her album "Heroes and Thieves." He has also authored a book on music theory released October 2008 entitled "The Elements of Music," published by Wooden Books and Bloomsbury, which has since been translated into German, Czech, Portuguese, and Japanese; also part of a larger, multi-author 6-book volume "Quadrivium", which is available in English, Italian, French, Dutch, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Czech, and Russian.

Dr. M has been playing the piano since the age of 5, and has been performing since 1989 at venues in the SF Bay Area, Los Angeles, and New York. In 2011 he joined the faculty at the Academy of Art University, teaching notation, theory, composition, orchestration, and counterpoint. He also has been a guest lecturer at UC Berkeley, the California Institute of Integral Studies, and was adjunct faculty at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music for the 2014-15 academic year. His second book for Wooden Books, entitled "Love: The Song of the Universe" was released worldwide in 2014.

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