Bio

Updated July 2, 2011
Kevin Weed
(714) 337-9874
Email: PianoWeed@aol.com

Conductor/Music Director:

  • Musical director/conductor for over 50 productions with Newport Harbor High School’s drama dept , also choral pianist– 25 years
  • Corona Del Mar High School drama dept – 10 years; choral pianist 17 years
  • Conductor for The Titanic May 2011 at Calvary Chapel, Downey
  • Assistant music director for Opera Pacific’s Opera Camp – 8 years
  • Mystery Café/The Gourmet Detective, also composer and pianist – 8years
  • Our Lady Of Refuge Catholic Church Children’s Choir – 3 years
  • Cor Marie Youth Choir – 3 years
  • Self Realization Fellowship Christmas Choir – 1 years
  • Guest and substitute conductor for: the Madrigal choir at Corona Del Mar High School, Prelude String Orchestra, Garden Grove/Orange County Symphony, Orange County Catholic Chorale

Pianist and Organist:

  • Cornelia Connelly High School- 6 years; Pianist for performances in The Riverside Church in New York, Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, Henry and Renee Segerstrom Concert Hall in Costa Mesa
    • 2010 tour to England and Ireland:
      • Farm Street Church of the Immaculate Conception – London
      • Chapel at St. Leonards – Mayfield School – Mayfield
      • Great St. Mary’s Church/The University Church – Cambridge, organ
      • Warwick Castle – Warwick
      • Priory School – Birmingham
      • St. Patrick’s Cathedral – Dublin, organ
      • Saint Mary’s Pro-Cathedral – Dublin
      • Farmleigh House and Estate – Dublin
    • China in 2008 –Pianist for concerts in the Olympic Village, Beijing Central Conservatory, Xi’an Conservatory, Nanjing Art Institute, Hangzhou Zheizhang Concert Hall, Shanghai-China Welfare Institute Children’s Palace
    • Organist and pianist for catholic mass in Beijing and at Sacred Heart in Shanghai
    • New York in March 2007 – Organist for a concerts in St. Patrick’s Cathedral and Holy Trinity Church
    • Italy in 2006 – Organist for masses in Florence Duomo, St. Peter’s Rome, and Trinita di Monti. Organist for concerts in Chiesa Santa Maria in Valvendra, Lovere; Saints Giovanni et Poalo, Venice; Santa Maria dei Ricci, Florence
  • St. Boniface Catholic Church, Anaheim, also pianist – since Jan. 2009
  • Meistersingers – since 2007
  • 2005 – Australian tour with Four Seasons Youth Orchestra and Chorale
    • Concerts in Sydney Opera House and Town Hall
    • Organist for a special recital at St. James Episcopal Church, King Street with violist Dr. Christine Placilla
  • Our Lady Of Refuge Catholic Church, Long Beach – 18 years
  • La Purisima Catholic Church, Orange – 2 years
  • Orange County Catholic Chorale – 3 years
  • William Lock’s The Musica Sacra Singers, also organist – 2 seasons
  • First Presbyterian Church, Garden Grove- guest
  • Solo recitals at CSU Fullerton; Newport Harbor High School; First Presbyterian Church,Garden Grove; The Gem Theater; Our Lady Of Refuge Church, Newport Public Library

Pianist:

  • Voice adjudications and competitions SEP, NATS
  • Vocal studios of Kathleen Martin, Nadia Smeltzer, Patrick Goeser, Janet Smith
  • Recitals with: Alyssa Wills, Nadia Smeltzer, Steven Humenski.
  • Ballet and modern dance classes and concerts – UCI, SAC, Cerritos College, Chapman University, West Coast Ballet Center
  • BonesWest – trombonist and pianist for BonesWest jazz trombone ensemble. – 4 years
  • Carden Hall – occasional concerts, musicals and graduations

Organist:

  • Annual Orange County Prayer Breakfast- 4 years
  • Sub-Dean for Orange County American Guild of Organists – 2 years

Bagpipes, penny whistle, Irish flute, harp:

  • Recorded on Highland Bagpipes: “Rhythm of My Heart,” Rod Stewart; “Tubular bells 2,” Mike Oldfield
  • Member of The Irish Band, Innisfree – Three tours to American military bases in Okinawa and Japan
  • Member of the band “Tradition”- winners of Best Band at Topanga Banjo/Fiddle Contest, and First Place Long Beach Blue Grass Festival
  • The Irish Band, Innisfree – Three tours to American military bases in Okinawa and Japan
  • Winner in Scottish Highland Bagpipe competitions:
    • The MacCrimmon Quaich, Santa Rosa
    • Southern California Piping Championship in Costa Mesa
    • 3rd Place in open piobaireachd at Pleaseanton
  • Toured and competed with the pipe bands: Cabar Feidh, the Gordon Greys, LAPD, BeachCities Pipe Band
  • “Brigadoon”: Musical Theater West, Chapman University, Downey CLO, Buena Park CLO, Irvine HS, Mission Viejo HS
  • Penny Whistle player with Celtic Harper, Dennis Doyle on his recording,“Irish Blessings”

Composer:

  • 15 years composer/arranger (also percussionist, pianist and librarian) for the Garden Grove/Orange County Symphony:
  • 14 Annual musicals and movies with the Da Vinci Academy at Newport Harbor High School
  • Old World Overture for the “All Beethoven” concert of The Orange County Catholic Chorale and Meistersingers, 2009
  • Rondo for Horn and Band for Pat Taylor and the Huntington Beach Concert Band
  • Mystery Café/The Gourmet Detective - Abracadaver, Nancy Hardy and the Riddle of the Sphinx, Death Under Cover
  • Harpsichord Concerto – for Corona Del Mar’s spring 2009 concert (Vivald’s Gloria)
  • Organ Concerto, and Antiphonal Sonata for Brass and Organ for a 2009 joint concert with Praise Symphony Orchestra, Our Lady of Refuge Church and OCAGO
  • Light Armour – 7 songs on the “light verse” of Richard Armour; for Judy Boland, Susan Junes and Sandy Bron, 2010
  • In 2008, Kevin composed a program of Music for Organ and Bagpipes. Kevin, playing the bagpipes with Larry Kolokowski, organist, performed the program at First Presbyterian Church, Garden Grove, CA, and in Escondido; both of these were for local American Guild of Organists chapters.