Margie Balter Net Worth is
$5 Million

Mini Biography

Blessed and raised in Pittsburgh, PA to homemaker/attorney parents, Margie Balter was bitten with the showbiz insect at an extremely early age. Margie’s early affects included her grandmother who was simply an accomplished vocalist and her two cousins, Aline MacMahon who was simply nominated for an Academy Prize for Best Helping Celebrity in 1944 and S. Sylvan Simon, who also gained an Academy Prize nomination for creating Greatest Picture “Delivered Last night,” in 1950. Balter says she arrived from the womb “in love with theatre, music and dance” and may not get plenty of of the pursuits. She started ballet and faucet dancing at age group 3 and piano by enough time she was 4. The flute and violin, aswell as performing and performing, all adopted in quick succession and so are still a part of her existence even today. When she reached the fourth grade, Margie started her first theater organization, “The Playwrights,” which she starred in, wrote, produced, and booked around Pittsburgh. The group performed at unique occasions and birthday celebrations for 3 years while getting notoriety for his or her youthful and dynamic performances. Pursuing “The Playwrights,” Margie continuing her quest for theatre and music employed in a fresh York based summer time stock theater firm, directing her senior course musical, writing initial songs and music parody and executing at every possible opportunity. Margie first present passion being a piano instructor when she was an adolescent due to her encounters with her own first trainer. “He was the daddy of the world-renowned conductor and desired me to review classical music in an exceedingly strict style. He was totally bored with my original tunes, lyrical experimentation and rewriting of previously existing functions. THEREFORE I became the piano instructor that I usually wanted to have got.” Margie’s own research continued while dealing with acclaimed pianist Frank Cunimondo, world-renowned saxophonist Dr. Nathan Davis and Costs Evans’ bassist, Gary Peacock, while also learning movie theater at Northwestern College or university and ultimately getting her Bachelor’s Level with Cum Laude honors on the College or university of Washington in Seattle in the analysis of ethnomusicology (globe music). This exposed unforeseeable creative stations for Balter and broadened her perspective for teaching, as she was inspired by her encounters with musical virtuosos from Zimbabwe, Ghana, Turkey, China, Laos and Bali. She also performed in lots of ensembles which range from jazz, funk and reggae to salsa and African music as well as for five years was an associate from the Seattle African music music group “Dumi as well as the Minanzi Marimba Outfit,” where she performed the marimba, rattle and drums and was a highlighted dancer. The group’s wide-spread popularity discovered them around the stage nearly every night time with performances in the Kennedy Middle and starting for artists such as for example “Taj Mahal,” “Grover Washington,” “The Neville Brothers,” “John McLaughlin” and “Burning up Spear.” Margie moved to LA to be able to expand her profession in display business, and after initially functioning several different careers in film and tv returned to teaching piano. Her second two college students had been Jane Fonda’s kids which officially started her profession as “Piano Instructor to the Celebrities.” She’s gone to build a fantastic job application, having instructed such superstars simply because Jill Eikenberry, Michael Keaton, Jacqueline Stallone, Marcus Allen, the kids of John Lithgow, Bob Dylan, Martin Mull, Carrie Fisher and Tracey Ullman, aswell as coaching stars on piano because of their films. Balter’s initial film coaching work was to instruct Scott Paulin to try out Chopin for the film “Captain America,” but her theatrical training profession was catapulted when she signed to trainer Holly Hunter for the film “The Piano.” Hunter performed the function of a female who was struggling to talk and may just speak through the piano. By using Margie’s skillful path and assistance, Hunter immersed herself in the piano for the film and continued to make the Academy Honor for Best Celebrity for her overall performance. Following the achievement of “The Piano,” Balter coached Tom Luxury cruise for “Interview HAVING A Vampire,” Scarlett Johansson for “THE PERSON Who Wasn’t There,” Sandra Bullock for “THE WEB,” Jack Dark for “THE VACATION,” Susan Sarandon for “Twilight,” Stephen Lang and Chris Demetral for “Trip Of The Center,” Wade Allain-Marcus for “Berkeley,” Barbara Hershey for “Family portrait Of A FEMALE,” Sanaa Lathan for HBO’s “Disappearing Serves” and Kevin Spacey for “Beyond THE OCEAN.” Balter’s function is recognizable in the strike comedy, “Beauty Store,”(2005). She not merely coached the film’s superstars, Paige Hurd (“Vanessa”) and Djimon Honsou (“Joe”), but also constructed the piece “Acquiring My Wings,” which is certainly highlighted prominently in Hurd’s piano recital picture. Balter also performed and arranged single piano sections for the film. While serving mainly because “Piano Teacher towards the Stars,” Margie in addition has enjoyed achievement with her own compositions having contributed to varied movies and composing Dan Jansen’s theme for the 1988 US Olympic Committee film “Town Of Gold” and composing the complete rating for the Sci-Fi Thriller “Lightspeed,” starring David Carradine and Karen Dark. In her own pursuits from the stage and acting, Margie has performed in various films, tv shows and theater pieces. She is at the improv humor troupe “The Lunatics” for a decade but still performs her one-woman present, “Music, Dreams And Films.” She’s also served simply because music movie director of the brand new York creation of Slain In The Spirit with music by Taj Mahal. On the piano she’s performed for countless audiences, including private event performances for Dustin Hoffman, James Garner, Michael Keaton, Michelle Pfeiffer and David E. Kelly. Satisfying a prolonged dream, she lately released her acclaimed debut Compact disc, “Music From My Center: Single Piano Items by Margie Balter” in past due 2007.

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