Michael Dulin

Michael Dulin is an American pianist and composer. In addition to performing his original music, Dulin has appeared both solo and with orchestra in performances of classical music. He has also toured as keyboardist with the Motown group, the Temptations.

Four of Dulin's albums The One I Waited For, Atmospheres, Follow The River and Timeless II have reached the #1 spot on the Zone Music Reporter (formerly New Age Reporter or NAR) Top 100 Radio Airplay Chart. Two of his albums have been awarded the New Age Reporter's NAR Lifestyle Music Award in 2004, its inaugural year for Atmospheres (Best Instrumental Album – Piano), and again in 2005 for Timeless (Best Neo-Classical Album). Dulin was also a finalist in the Carnegie Hall International Piano Competition in 1985, and was awarded the Silver Medal in the Second Annual International Audio-Video Competition in New York. Dulin and his business partner, Dan Whiteside, own and operate Equity Digital, a music label, and PSI Digital, a digital recording facility both located in Birmingham, Alabama. This was followed up by A Nice Boy From Brooklyn in 1999, a collection of songs by composer George Gershwin.

In 2002, Dulin released his third album The One I Waited For, a debut of Dulin's original piano compositions. The music on the contemporary instrumental music featured Dulin's solo piano performance with the usage of occasional synth work. The album peaked at #1 in May 2003 on the ZMR Top 100 Radio Airplay Chart, The album was #3 on the ZMR Top 100 Airplay Chart for 2003.

Dulin continued to explore the New Age genre on his 2003 release Atmospheres, his second release of original piano based compositions. The album peaked at #1 in September 2003 on the ZMR Top 100 Radio Airplay Chart The album featured Offutt on Native American flutes and Dulin on piano and keyboards. The inspiration for the album came from a week Dulin spent in the mountains of North Carolina. Dulin has stated that the music was not intended to be representative of Native American culture, but the wooden flutes were the perfect medium to express the beauty of the untouched world.

In 2004, Dulin released Timeless, a collection of classics. He has taken familiar melodies from the 19th and 20th century piano repertoire and gives them a new age styled interpretation. In an interview, Dulin had expressed his views that classical music was dying, and needs to be brought back to the attention of the general public. By updating some of these easily accessible pieces, he has made a step in that direction without compromising the integrity of the music in any way. The album peaked at #12 on ZMR in Dec 2004 on the ZMR Top 100 Radio Airplay Chart, and was #86 on the ZMR Top 100 Airplay Chart for 2005.

Dulin released an album of Christmas standards in 2005 with Christmas at Our House. The album peaked at #9 in Dec 2005 on the ZMR Top 100 Radio Airplay Chart.

In 2008, Dulin released his fourth album of original material, and his third as a solo recording artist, on Follow The River. In an interview Dulin has stated that the inspiration for the album came from his observation that the journey of life is like a river. The main melody on the title track that opens the album also came to Dulin when he was sitting on a rock looking down at the river. The album peaked at #1 in June 2008 on the ZMR Top 100 Radio Airplay Chart,

In 2011, Dulin released Timeless II, the follow-up to his 2004 release, Timeless. On this album, Dulin has moved away from the New Age genre, back to his Classical music roots with interpretations of works by Bach, Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, Chopin, and Saint- Saens. The instrumentation is based on the piano with strings, organ, and other non-piano sounds complementing with subtle accents. The album peaked at #1 in April 2011 on the ZMR Top 100 Radio Airplay Chart,

Dulin released These Are the Moments in 2012, a collection of his original music and arrangements from six of his releases from 2002 to 2012. The album is a collection of Dulin's contemporary instrumentals and his performances of classical music. The album has been featured in the Best New Age Albums in 2012.

Dulin's arrangement of Erik Satie's Gymnopedie #3, Simply Satie, was featured in the soundtrack of 2014's Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles by Academy Award-winning director Chuck Workman.

In 2015, Dulin released My Beloved, another album of original compositions dedicated to his wife, Jan. It was named 2015's Best Solo Piano Album by Enlightened Piano Radio.

His music has also been heard in an episode of the final season of NBC's hit sitcom Parks and Recreation.

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