Contemporary instrumental music featuring piano. Moods range from mellow meditative to love ballads to moderate dance.

13 MP3 Songs
EASY LISTENING: Mood Music, JAZZ: Smooth Jazz



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Born in Manchester, Jamaica, Bertram moved to the U.S. with his family in 1976 and started studying piano at the age of 7. During his childhood he was surrounded by many styles of music, including classical, jazz, blues, gospel, pop, rock, etc. His composing style is an outgrowth of all these genres. Particularly, he has studied jazz and classical intensely and is equally at home with Branford Marsalis, McCoy Tyner, Beetoven or Bach. He brings together both styles and techniques in a contemporary rendition. Among the qualities he likes to hear in music are melodic and harmonic beauty, warmth, gentleness, adventure, and enchantment.

Over the years he has given many solo and ensemble performances and has been musical director at several churches in the Washington, D.C. area. He performs regularly at Tuscarora Mill Restaurant in Leesburg, VA, the Ritz Carlton in Washington, D.C., and is a piano instructor at Melodee Music Studios in Sterling, VA. His major influences are Kenny Kirkland, Branford and Wynton Marsalis, Keith Jarrett, and several of the major classical composers.