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          Bill Kurzenberger is a dynamic keyboardist/guitarist/singer/songwriter from Columbus, Ohio.  An established solo artist, Bill plays keyboards and sings with The Resonators, the Bug Hounds, Skeleton Crew and Terrapin Moon.  Bill is also the newest member of the legendary Marshmallow Overcoat and is featured on their recent album. 
Solitary Road, Kurzenberger's second solo album, is set for release in June of 2010.

          Over the past fifteen years, Bill has performed at many of Ohio's premier venues including Promowest's LC Pavilion, the House of Blues, the Newport Music Hall, the Beachland Ballroom, the Winchester Music Hall, and Legend Valley.  With various bands, he has supported and shared the stage with renowned artists such as the Marshall Tucker Band, Derek Trucks Band, Hot Tuna, Blues Traveler, Yonder Mountain String Band, Melvin Seals and the Jerry Garcia Band.
  
          Bill was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, where he learned to play piano at an early age.  While attending Ohio Wesleyan University in the early 1990's, he joined his first bands: Lava and Abra Cadaver.  As his songwriting developed, he formed the Columbus-based band Melting Pot in 1994 with Justin Mason.

          After playing acoustic and electric guitar for several years at open stages around Columbus, Bill found his true calling to be back on the keyboards.   He proceeded to play keyboards in a number of established Columbus-based bands including STATION, Sugar Pill, Current, Wazzin', the Ritchey Brothers Band, John Mullins Band, Grasshopper Pie, Fuzz Logik, and the Bug Hounds, as well as London-based Stone Groove, and Dayton-based Skeleton Crew and Terrapin Moon.  As a guest keyboardist, Bill has appeared onstage with various acts, including Local Color, Cowboy Hillbilly Hippy Folk, and ekoostik Hookah.

          In addition to playing with numerous bands, Bill is an established yet emerging solo artist.  In 2005, Bill self-produced and released his debut album entitled Suspending Disbelief .  The CD showcases six songs selected from over a decade of original material, backed capably by Ed Ritchey, Scott Maruskin, Scot Gassen, Julie Rearick and Craig Harpley.  Suspending Disbelief  has received international radio airplay and is available at Apple iTunes, CDBaby, Napster, Rhapsody, Amazon.com, and music outlets around the world.

          After the success of the Suspending Disbelief  CD, Bill formed The Resonators.   The Resonators feature Julie Kurzenberger, as well as Bill's past and present bandmates, and special guests including Richard Shack from The James Gang.

          As a session musician, Bill has recorded several studio sessions with world-renowned garage-psych masters The Marshmallow Overcoat and their alter-ego Thee Hands of Tyme.  They released a '45 vinyl record on Sound Effect Records in 2005 which has gained critical acclaim in Greece.  The Marshmallow Overcoat's 2008 CD The Light Show, which features Bill on Farfisa organ, was recorded at Waterworks Studio in Tucson, Arizona and released on Garage Nation Records.

          Bill has received national media recognition in several music magazines.  In 2007, Bill was featured in the February issue of No Cover Magazine, available at music stores and bookstores nationwide.  Bill's original song "Venom Wine"  was released on the nationally-distributed Groupies Suck Volume #9  compilation CD that accompanies No Cover Magazine.  Bill has also been featured on
Rolling Stone Magazine's official website.

          Bill joined up with The Bug Hounds in 2007, contributing his original material to their eclectic repertoire.  The Bug Hounds have recently performed at events for crowds of several thousand, including the 2009 Slice of Columbus at the Lifestyle Communities Pavilion.

          In 2008, Bill teamed up with two Dayton, Ohio-based bands, Skeleton Crew and Terrapin Moon, performing with both bands around Ohio and the Midwest.  


         
In the spring of 2010, Kurzenberger
completed work on his second studio CD, entitled Solitary Road.  A studio representation of his live solo performances, Solitary Road features new original material, including the ambient instrumental "Tabula Rasa"Solitary Road will be released in June of 2010, and will be available on Apple iTunes, Napster, Rhapsody, and CDBaby.com .



Press Coverage


News Articles



ThisWeek Community Newspaper, Clintonville, Ohio

June 30, 2010

Pianist Goes Solo on 'Solitary Road' CD

Pianist Goes Solo On 'Solitary Road' CD

 


Vail Daily Newspaper, Vail, Colorado

July 2, 2010

Cowboy Hillbilly Hippy Folk To Play on Vail Mountain
Paul Painter of Cowboy Hillbilly Hippy Folk Answers 7


Altoona Mirror Newspaper, Altoona, Pennsylvania

February 25, 2010

Millennium Music Conference, Day Two 2/20 


Cincinnati CityBeat Magazine, Cincinnati, Ohio

September 10, 2008 

MidPoint: Saturday Sept. 27

 


No Cover Magazine, Los Angeles, California

January 2007

Artist Spotlight - Bill Kurzenberger

No Cover Magazine Artist Spotlight - Bill Kurzenberger


Press Quotes



"All props to James Brown, but Bill Kurzenberger may be the hardest working living man in show business.  The Columbus keyboardist/guitarist/singer/songwriter plays with five bands (Stone Groove, the Bug Hounds, John Mullins Band, the Resonators, Marshmallow Overcoat), records with a couple others and maintains a burgeoning solo career.  No cape, no entourage, but Kurzenberger will work you into a cold sweat nonetheless."

Cincinnati CityBeat Magazine, Sept. 2008  
MidPoint Music Festival Showcase


"Bill can play any keyboard, any style." 


Tim Gassen, Purple Cactus Media Productions, Tucson, Arizona, 2008

"Bill Kurzenberger is an incredibly talented artist... a stalwart and a fixture on the Columbus music scene, in particular in the jam-band sect.  He's done so, so much for that area of music in Columbus and beyond."


Myke Rock (M-Agency International), Myke Rock Radio, Sept. 2006

Millennium Music Conference, Day Two 2/20

"Like the first day of Millennium Music Conference business sessions, this one also featured a schedule of panels and seminars, and more acoustic entertainment on the Pennsylvania Musician-sponsored acoustic stage.

Some 28 different performers and bands graced the acoustic stage throughout the day. Among the most impressive performances were those by... Columbus, Ohio-based singer/pianist Bill Kurzenberger.

The daytime portion of the Millennium Music Conference concluded with this year’s edition of what has become the conference’s most popular panel, the Smash Or Trash panel. Throughout the weekend, musicians were invited to submit their recordings to a drop box. Then, during the Smash Or Trash panel, a panel of music industry representatives would play some of the submitted recordings and offer their thoughts and critiques of the music; disclosing whether the song had the potential to be a hit, or if it was trash and/or needed major reworking... There were several big "winners," songs that passed the panel with flying colors and were deemed potential hits; those songs were submitted by Shaun Ruyman, The Chuck Schaeffer Picture Show, Bill Kurzenberger, The Trapps, and Shayna Zaid."


Altoona Mirror Newspaper, Backyard Beats, February 25, 2010



Song List / Repertoire
http://www.billsmusic.net/songs

 

Projects:

The Resonators
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Melting Pot


Bands that Bill has supported and shared the stage with:

 

Websites that feature Bill Kurzenberger's music:

Rolling Stone Magazine

Apple iTunes

MSN Music

Rhapsody


BetaRecords.com

BlueZone.org

CDBaby.com


eMusic.com


GarageBand.com


iSound.com


MusicStore.Real.com


MySpace.com

Napster.com
 
PayPlay.fm
 
SoundClick.com

Tradebit.com

Verizon Wireless VCAST

Zebox.com



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