Michael Kerr:  

Life From michaelpatrickkerr.com Michael Patrick Kerr is a professional bassist and acoustics/audio engineer who creatively blends his love of art with technology. Michael is equally comfortable on stage or in the studio amid most styles of music. He prefers the collaborative work of songwriting and arranging within a group setting. Michael plays fretted and fretless electric bass, upright bass and keyboards. From an early age growing up in a small town near Baltimore, Michael always had a deep interest in music, studying both violin and trumpet from the age of nine. At the age of fourteen he picked up the bass, driven by the excitement he felt listening to the likes of Geddy Lee, John Paul Jones and Chris Squire. His high school career was filled with bass playing; participating in the jazz band, orchestra, symphonic wind ensemble and numerous theatrical presentations and talent shows, in addition to his gigging original rock group –Trilogy. Trilogy evolved into Last Chance and continued to play the Baltimore/Washington rock circuit, long before its members were of legal drinking age. Two years at a local community college offered the beginnings of a very intense music and engineering education. Michael participated in all the school had to offer musically: orchestra, jazz ensemble, music theatre, music theory and private instruction in string bass, bass guitar and piano. A highlight at the community college was a extended run of the musical Hair that played to packed houses and rave reviews. Years of dedicated practice lead to a successful audition at the University of Miami. At Miami, Michael continued studies in jazz, rock, theory and performance and even participated in a jazz choral group (yikes!). Michael returned to Maryland to finish up a degree in Audio Engineering at the University of Maryland and pursued graduate work at The American University where he became immersed in the recording arts, electronic music and analog sound synthesis. Through these years, Michael was the bassist with The Michael Kelly Group which toured the Mid Atlantic playing original acoustic folk rock and Doom Cookie an alternative rock three piece. In this period Michael also toured the mid-Atlantic with Color Factory, the electric version of Michael Kelly’s project in a completely original rock format. In 1996 Michael did a six month stint on the ...Expand for more