Born in northern Minnesota’s rural (Mesabi Iron Range Taconite mining)
community of Aurora to a family of concert pianists, songwriters, vocalists,
music conservatory directors, and parade, fair, and festival organizers. The
creative and public worlds of Teague predate his own memory.

A self taught pianist, he began supporting himself at age 17 through
improvisation at art shows and playing for tips in Sandpoint, ID. There the
late musical genius Raphael found hope in the young pianist and instructed
Teague through the summer of 1987. Offering a fresh and eccentric approach to
the budding composers study of notes, tone, and silence with woodwinds,
strings, and percussion.

Teague continued playing piano, keyboards, guitar, and singing in varied
Sandpoint and Couer d’Alene bands until 1989 when he was accepted to study
classical notation and technique under Hilipi Kantola of Finland’s Helsinki
Conservatory of Music. During a major piano, violin, and voice recital, the
nineteen-year-old Teague decided to "premier" three original works at risk of
expulsion but gaining instead his first 600+ person standing ovation. 1992
found Teague again in Idaho under the tutelage of Music
Theory and Composition professor, concert violinist, Gerard Mathes in Couer
d’Alene. Mathes brought focus and structure to Teague’s eclectic work.

Teague, in the past 5 years has gone from "coffee shop" musician to
bi-regional and international touring and recording artist. Currently
performing 5-8 times per week in solo performances to audiences ranging from
intimate gatherings to 2,500. A compilation of 7 Teague piano compositions
began airing on Radio Free Europe in Prague in the summer of 2000. He completed
his first European tour last summer, playing in Czech Republic and Scotland. He
will return to eastern and western Europe in the spring of 2002.2001 (to date)

Artist Resume

ID, USA: 9 performances

WA, USA: 198 performances

MT, USA: 5 performances

WY, USA: 3 performances

Piano and Compositional Theory instructor at CREATE, Newport, WA.

Art Scape Kindergarten "Meet the Composer" Newport, WA.

2 day Arts in Education workshop at CREATE Newport, WA.

Judge for Union Street "Free-style Piano Competition" Newport, WA.

Recorded "Prelude to the Wake" compact disk

Recorded "The Tree of Life" compact disk

Puffin Foundation Grant Recipient for project "Music With And For The Children’s Sake" (composition project with three at risk youth August 2001 - January 2002)

Recorded piano on Ezekiel Kelly’s (ASCAP) 3rd Album "Terminal Expansion"

Scored music for Warren Carlson’s play, "Next Born Child"

2000

ID, USA: 132 performances

WA, USA: 153 performances

Compositional Theory and Piano instructor at The CREATE Place, Newport, WA.

18 day performance and educational residency with Miloslav Langer of Radio Praha, Prague, CZ.

Instructed Czech pianist Lucas Traverna advanced technique

Praha Czech Republic: 9 concerts at "The Lucerna" with Slavic Janov and Lucas Traverna

Scotland: Guest composer performance at Universal Hall, Findhorn Foundation

WA, USA: Headlining solo-performer at the Cusick Arts Festival

21st Century Learning Center "Meet the Composer" Newport, WA.

1999

ID, USA: 174 performances

WA, USA: 128 performances

Represented Arts Organization CREATE at the North West Booking Conference, Portland, OR.

Press writer for CREATE Newport, WA.

Press writer for varied emerging performing and visual artists in Idaho and Washington

Facilitated emerging performing artist development group

Co-Founded The Cusick Arts Festival "Coats for Kids Benefit"

Piano masters class with Marie Andree Ostiguy at the Cutter Theatre Metaline Falls, WA.

Internet marketing workshop at North West booking conference Portland, OR.

Artists in education workshop with Rod Molzhan at CREATE in Newport, WA.

Block Booking workshop with Mila Gilbert at CREATE in Newport, WA.

"Meet the Composer" Newport High School, Newport, WA.

Live radio interview with Michael Bogue, Sandpoint Public Radio, Sandpoint, ID.

1998

MN, USA: 29 performances

WA, USA: 11 performances

Recorded 16 solo-piano compositions for demo tapes at Specter Studios, Seattle, WA.

Recorded 2 piano tracks for rock band "tHe drop" at Specter Studios, Seattle, WA.

9-month sabbatical Seattle, WA.

"Meet the Composer" Tower/Soudan High School, Tower, MN.

Private fundamentals of music and compositional theory instructor Seattle, WA.

1997

ID, USA: 27 performances

WA, USA: 68 performances

MN, USA: 34 performances

AZ, USA:15 performances

Private fundamentals of music and compositional theory instructor Virginia, MN.

3-hour live interview with Damien Graig Grand Rapids, MN. Public Radio

1996

ID, USA: 114 performances

WA, USA: 85 performances

Recorded "Pages from a Storybook" compact disk.

1995-1986

ID, USA: 183 performances

MN, USA: 1 performance

SC, USA: 3 performances

Studied Piano technique under Hilipi Kantola of Finland’s Helsinki Conservatory of Music, Virginia, MN.

Studied composition and theory under Gerard Mathes- N.I.C. Cd’A, ID.

Studied computer music notation under Gerard Mathes- N.I.C. Cd’A, ID.

Studied classical guitar under Matt Smith-N.I.C. Cd’A, ID.

Studied music composition under Raphael-Sandpoint, ID.