Paul Sottnik
Songwriter ~ Accompanist
Between gigs as ballet accompanist or music director Paul writes songs about familiar things like stereos, crystals, gasoline or owning a fast food franchise. He lives in Chicago, studied piano at SUNY Fredonia, is a multi-instrumentalist. He is also the owner of Mela Collecrtive.
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Contact
Chicago, Il
631 624 1995
Discography
Argo 2020
Sandalwood and Gasoline 2020
Ballet Music for Cosmic Circumstance 2020
Lapis / Tourmaline 2019
Mela Two 2019
Still Talkin' 2018
Supermarkets 2018
Music Box Mind 2018
The Everythingness 2017
MELA 2016
MANAGER OF SOTTNIK MUSIC
creating projects since 2015
MUSIC DIRECTOR / PIANIST
“Ballad of Left and Crabbe” (Workshop) Understudy Theater 2019
“Barney the Elf” Pride Arts Center 2018
“A Charlie Brown Christmas” Buffalo’s Theater of Youth 2017
“Guys and Dolls” 17’ and “Beauty and the Beast” 18’ at Catherine O’hara HS
“Beauty and the Beast” and “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Please Change” Cobblestone Arts Center 2017
“Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat” 16’ at Theater in the Mist
"420 The Musical" 2016 and 2017
BALLET CLASS ACCOMPIANIST
Common Conservatory Chicago, IL
Visceral Dance Center Chicago, IL
Ruth Page Center for the Arts Chicago, IL
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, IL
Chicago High Scool for the Arts
Hyde Park School of Dance Chicago, IL
Chicago Ballet Arts
Dance Works Chicago
Ballet Chicago
University of Buffalo (2016-2018)
ASOCIATED ENSEMBLES
Mela Ensemble
Trust This Ghost Chicago, IL
Ponder Buffalo, NY
The Everythingness Buffalo, NY
Bobby Skrzypek and the Pedestrians Western, NY
All'amore Jamestown, NY
PERFORMANCE VENUES
810 Meadworks Medina, NY
Bucktown Garden Festival (2019) Chicago, IL
Caffeine Underground NYC
Daily Planet Cafe Buffalo, NY
Davenport's Piano Bar Chicago, IL
Erie Maritime Museum Erie, PA
Funk and Waffles Syracuse, NY
Gallery Cabaret Chicago, IL
Infringement Festival (2017) Buffalo, NY
La Macchina Evanston, IL
Lot 10 Ithica, NY
Merge Buffalo, NY
Mohawk Place Buffalo, NY
Mojo's Jamestown, NY
Nietzche's Buffalo, NY
Parish Public House Albany, NY
Pausa Art House Buffalo, NY
Petterino's Chicago, IL
Piano's NYC
Radio Bean Burlington, VT
Slyfest (2017) Western New York
Starry Night Cafe Rochester, NY
Stone Church Nermarket, NH
Sylvie's Chicago, IL
The 9th Ward Buffalo, NY
The Basement Long Island, NY
The Bug Jar Rochester, NY
The Cavern Toronto, ON
The Elbo Room Chicago, IL
The Gypsy Parlour Buffalo, NY
Uncommon Ground Chicago, IL
Wine on Hertal Buffalo, NY
PERFORMED ON
"Before We Go..." by Trust This Ghost 2020
"Mela Two" 2019
"The Everythingness" 2017
"Mela" 2016
"Gin and Yonic" by Yonic 2015