Lonnie Park

Lonnie Park is a Grammy Nominated musician and composer, studio and live musician, producer, business entrepreneur, and author.

Lonnie Park
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Website	http://lonniepark.com/

Early Life

His father’s first words when Lonnie was born were “He is going to play piano”. Born and raised in a one square mile village named Freeville NY, Lonnie grew up in a conservative fundamental Christian family. The family was involved in their local Baptist Church and its associated activities almost daily. Lonnie’s first public music performances began when he was five years old when he would sing solo while standing on a chair behind the pulpit. Immersed in the Christian culture, it wasn’t until Lonnie was almost seventeen that he truly experienced popular secular music. His only exposure to secular music was a crate of 45’s that his father allowed him to play. Lonnie credits his musical influences to be his church and family’s musical environment, and the 45’s featuring Elvis, Del Shannon, Buddy Holly, and country classics. Lonnie’s parents were also small business entrepreneurs and instilled strong business skills and work ethics through all of his formative years.

Education

Lonnie attended Brooktondale Baptist School from Kindergarten through completion of tenth grade. This school, now closed, was a private Christian school in upstate New York with a Bible based curriculum and emphasized the conservative GARBC Baptist lifestyle. Due to lost attendance from a two year bout with Hypoglycemia in fourth and fifth grades, he was forced to repeat fifth grade.  In order to make up the lost year, he skipped eleventh grade and enrolled in the public Dryden High School taking on a double course load as a senior. After successfully graduating High School, he immediately attended Tompkins Cortland Community College as a communications major. Five weeks before his college graduation, Lonnie left the program to pursue musical opportunities. In recent years, Lonnie has been a featured speaker for that very program and has worked to the completion of his degree.

Music Career

Lonnie’s journey from his gospel roots to the Grammys has been action packed. He appears as vocalist, instrumentalist, and on the production side of many albums in many genre. He is best known as a vocalist, keyboardist, and songwriter, but has appeared as engineer, producer, and playing a wide variety of instruments. Along with his solo career, and various collaborations, Lonnie is the lead singer of the band Ten Man Push. With many national tours under his belt, and consistently playing live over two hundred times each year, Lonnie is a solid performer both live and in the studio. With both signed and independent acts, Lonnie has been in demand for his wide range of talents. In addition to being front man for the band Ten Man Push (The Official Band of American Motocross),Lonnie is consistently taking on projects of interest. One such project received a 2013 Grammy Nomination for “Best Pop Instrumental Album of the Year”. On this album, Arun Shenoy’s“Rumbadoodle”, Lonnie was a composer and played piano and keyboards. With a constant stream of projects and collaborations, his catalog of works is constantly growing.

Business Career

In 1992, Lonnie and business partner opened “The Ultimate Music Center” in Cortland NY.  This business was a large retail music store, professional recording studio, and pro-audio business. Lonnie was responsible for running all aspects of the studio and pro audio divisions, while also participating daily in the retail and management parts of the business. He became known as the “Master of Sound” in central NY. His pro audio business serviced most Churches and Schools in the Central NY area. He composed a book for his customer base titled “Church Sound Systems” which was quickly picked up by international publishing giant Hal Leonard Publishing. The retail business was closed after the passing of his business partner in 2010. Under the newly formed company “Ultimate Sound LLC”, Lonnie continues to be the go-to source for industrial sound systems. He also is constantly active working with clients from the recording studio that he built in his home.

Discography

Arun Shenoy “Rumbadoodle” 2013 Grammy Best Pop Instrumental Album Nominee – Piano, Composer

Wrathchild America “3D”, Atlantic Records- Keyboards

John West “Mind Journey”, Shrapnel Records- Songwriter

John West “Permanent Mark”, Shrapnel Records- Songwriting, Keyboards, Backing Vocals

John West “Earth Maker”, Frontiers Records & Yamaha Records- Songwriter, Co-Producer, Mix & Mastering Engineer, Backing Vocals, Keyboards

John West “Long Time No sing” Frontiers Records – Songwriter, Co-Producer, Mix & Mastering Engineer, Backing Vocals, Keyboards, Guitars, Bass

Artension “Machine”, Shrapnel Records- Backing Vocals and Vocal Arrangements, Engineering

Artension “Sacred Pathways”, Frontiers Records – Co-Production, Backing Vocals and Vocal Arrangements, Tracking, Mixing, and Mastering Engineering

Artension “Future World”- Backing Vocals and Vocal Arrangements, Engineering

Artension “New Discovery”- Backing Vocals and Vocal Arrangements, Engineering

Feinstein “Third Wish”, SPV Records – Vocal Production and Engineering

Feinstein “One Night In The Jungle”, Hollywood Island Music- Keyboards, Engineering, Co-Production

Cozy Powell “Especially For You”, Polydor Records -Songwriting, Keyboards, Backing Vocals

Slave to the Power “The Iron Maiden Tribute” Revolver USA/Meteor City -Recording Engineering and Mixing, All Backing Vocals for “Run To The Hills”

James Murphy “Feeding The Machine”, Shrapnel Records -Backing Vocals & Engineering on “The Visitors”

Royal Hunt “Eye Witness”- Recording Engineer/Bonus Track

Chris Caffery “House of Insanity”, 2008 Label TBA – Recording engineering, Backing Vocal Arrangment and Backing Vocals, Keyboards

Ten Man Push “Self Titled Debut”, Nozenglazzes Records- Lead Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Keyboards, Songwriting, Production, Recording, Mixing, and Mastering Engineer, Backing Vocals

Ten Man Push “Playing In The Dirt”, Nozenglazzes Records ( Same credits as debut)

Steve Corey  “ Your Stinking Love” Full production including most instrumentation as well as mix and master.

Notable Appearances on Independent Releases: Randy McStine “Second Shot” Randy McStine “Shredding Skin” Colleen Kattau “Inhabited Woman” Colleen Kattau “About Time” Tink Bennett & Tailor Made “We’re Here Tink Bennett & Tailor Made “It Never Ends” Andrew James “Wildly Alive With Music” Greg Soshinky “Waves Of Time” Travis Rocco “Gone” Many Moons “Many Moons” Destiny “Side By Side” Our Planet Band

Film/TV Works:The Sweet Life with Chris Xaver National Cooking show (Theme, score, and post audio)“Waiting On Alphie” White Lightning Productions / Diesel Movie Werks (Soundtrack, Sound Mixer) “Dream House” Chinimble Lore/ Kevin Hicks (Soundtrack, Sound Mixer) Nitro Circus “Thrillbillys” Travis Pastrana (Soundtrack) Versus Network “Racer TV” (Theme Song, 2010-present) “Cayuga Lake Wine Country” Elk Productions (Host and Narrator) “High School Challenge” TC3 Television Production (Theme Song)

Technology Products: “Gorgeous Piano I, Lonnie Park Signature Series” Loop Library, Hark Productions “Gorgeous Piano II, Lonnie Park Signature Series” Loop Library, Hark Productions “Trak Paks” VASST/Hark “Rap Beats” Hark “Studio Tools” Loop Library, Hark Productions

Live Audio: FOH Mix Little Feat Hillary Clinton Dalai Lama (1990) Twila Paris Phil Keaggy Chuck Gerrard Dennis Agajanian YWAM USA Tour

Commercial/Industrial Audio Contributions: Clients Pepsi-Co, Corporate Video Works, Tompkins Library DVD, First National Bank of Dryden, Bruce’s Soft Touch, ES&L Bank, Tompkins Cortland Community College

Written Works: “Church Sound Systems” by Lonnie Park, Hal Leonard Publishing - See more at: http://lonniepark.com

Notable Musicians Collaborated With

Park has performed with and engineered for many well known musicians. Some known artists are the following:

Merle Haggard (Country Legend)

Arun Shenoy (Rumbadoodle)

Twila Paris (Christian Artist)

Chuck Girard (Christian Artist)

John West (Royal Hunt, Artension, Badlands, Lynch Mob, Yngwie Malmsteen)

Chris Caffery & Jeff Plate (Trans Siberian Orchestra / Savatage)

Cozy Powell (Whitesnake, Black Sabbath, ELP, many more)

Kevin Chown (Uncle Cracker, Jimmy Kimmel Band, Artension)

Bobby Jarzombek & Metal Mike Claszcek (Halford, Sebastian Bach)

Barry Sparks (Ted Nugent, Dokken, Yngwie Malmsteen)

Mike Terrana (Artension, Yngwie Malmsteen)

Dave Feinstein (Elf w/ Dio, The Rods)

John Macaluso (TNT, Yngwie Malmsteen , Riot)

Jeff Howell (Outlaws, Foghat)

Gary Holland (Great White)

Ron Riddle (Blue Oyster Cult)

Vitalij Kuprij (Artension, Ring of Fire, Trans Siberian Orchestra)

Rob Hunter (Raven, Branford Marsalis)

Mike Casswell (Brian May, Cozy Powell)

Maestro Mistheria

Chris Myers

Felipe Praino

Sridharan Ravichandran

Craig Morgan

Charlie Shew (The Orleans)