Michael Gallant Trio

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Whether performing, composing, or interviewing world-famous musical figures, Michael Gallant relies on a potent combination of guts and musicality, learning and improvisation to see him through — and his first album with the Michael Gallant Trio, Completely, is no exception. The album features Gallant on piano and keyboard, DownBeat Critics Poll winner Linda Oh on bass, and New York session drummer Chris Infusino on percussion. The album was engineered and mixed by Grammy® award-winning engineer Mario J McNulty and produced by Gallant and Rachel Rossos. And though Completely is Gallant’s first release captaining a keyboard trio, it’s far from his first statement when it comes to improvisational music. The son of a musical household, Gallant began studying piano at age five. Improvisation followed eight years later, thanks to a fiery teacher at the Levine School of Music named Maria Rodriguez. “She taught me the blues, how to improvise long melodic lines, and how to say a lot with just a single note or rest,” says Gallant. When Rodriguez passed away from cancer, Gallant wrote The Real Maria in her memory. “Rather than paying tribute to her by composing something mournful, I wanted that tune to capture her grace, her energy, and her swagger — all the qualities that inspired me,” says Gallant. By the time Gallant graduated from the Sidwell Friends School in Washington, DC, he had played music at the White House and the Kennedy Center and toured to New Orleans with a Dixieland

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