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Accredited Simply Music Teacher

Completed the accreditation process to become an accredited teacher of Simply Music, a revolutionary, Australian-developed piano learning method that offers a breakthrough in music education. This remarkable approach has students of all ages playing great-sounding contemporary, classical, gospel, blues and accompaniment pieces — immediately — from their very first lessons.
Learn more at potluckcreativearts.com.
Simply Music

Songwriter, Producer, Instrumentalist, Arranger, Engineer; Everybody’s Invited

43 minutes, stereo, CD and MP3. Debut album from The Offhand Band, released by Potluck Creative Arts.
Listen at theoffhandband.com.

Launched theoffhandband.com

Launched theoffhandband.com, using WordPress publishing platform and customized programming with PHP, HTML and plugins.

Founder, Webmaster; The Offhand Band

  • Founded this music act to create satisfying songs that are cool for kids, fun for families and great for the grown on their own.
  • Webmaster for theoffhandband.com.

Visit The Offhand Band.

Licensed Simply Music Teacher

Completed the training process to become a licensed teacher of Simply Music, a revolutionary, Australian-developed piano learning method that offers a breakthrough in music education. This remarkable approach has students of all ages playing great-sounding contemporary, classical, gospel, blues and accompaniment pieces — immediately — from their very first lessons.
Learn more at potluckcreativearts.com.
Simply Music

Launched sophiaquinnmeritt.com

Launched sophiaquinnmeritt.com, using WordPress publishing platform and customized programming with PHP, HTML and plugins.

Developed new music, arts and creativity services

Developed innovative Songwriting Workshops, Singalong Workshops, Creativity Coaching service and custom songwriting/composition/writing services, most using Appreciative Inquiry to foster collaborative creativity.
Visit Potluck Creative Arts.

Relaunched arts.potluck.com

Founder, Principal, Webmaster; Potluck Creative Arts

Author; Forcing the Balance, Or How I Learned to Stop Worshiping Star Wars and Understand Myself

Autobiographical essay on talents, passions, and finding and staying on one’s path.
Read at potluck.com.

Music/Piano Teacher, Alfred methods

Using Alfred piano methods including the Basic Piano Course, Prep Course for the Younger Beginner, and Music for Little Mozarts.
Learn more at potluckcreativearts.com.
Alfred Piano Methods

Founder, Principal, Webmaster; Potluck Arts

Incorporated Sophie’s World into potluck.com

Multiple honors, 11th Annual Billboard Magazine Songwriting Contest

  • The Fall of the Roxy Usher, Music and Lyrics by Mark S. Meritt: Honorable Mention certificate and Top 500 prize.
  • Someone Duplicated the Key to My Heart, Music and Lyrics by Mark S. Meritt: Honorable Mention certificate and Top 500 prize.
  • Falling into the Sun; Music by Mark S. Meritt, Lyrics by Richard Hack and Mark S. Meritt: Honorable Mention certificate.

Listen and read at potluck.com.

Launched Sophie’s World at home.hvc.rr.com/buttonhouse

Launched Sophie’s World at home.hvc.rr.com/buttonhouse, using custom HTML programming.
Visit Sophie’s World.

Webmaster, Sophie’s World

Visit Sophie’s World.

Pianist, Lara Spencer’s wedding dance, Good Morning America

I was invited to provide live, original accompaniment for Lara Spencer and her dance instructor as part of her series documenting the planning of her wedding.
Listen and see photos at potluck.com.
Good Morning America

Pianist, Chukwu septuplets’ first birthday, Good Morning America

I was invited to perform “Happy Birthday” on the piano for the Chukwu septuplet’s first birthday celebration.
See photos at potluck.com.
Good Morning America

Pianist, Rosie’s Christmas Carol Challenge, Good Morning America

Rosie O’Donnell played “name that tune” with me performing snippets of Christmas songs and Rosie having to guess as many as she could in one minute.
See photos at potluck.com.
Good Morning America

Co-Creator, Composer; The Unexplainable Bonefish

A proposed television series in which host Dr. Wiley Bonefish and a crew of puppet lab assistants would humorously help kids explore paranormal science using the scientific method.
Listen and read at potluck.com.

Co-Screenwriter, Stage Dad

A struggling actor finds new life directing his young daughter’s school play.

Co-Author, Hugh Manatee

Read at potluck.com.

Composer, Co-Lyricist, Co-Librettist; The Right Circles

  • Scheming Broadway writers make fun of avant garde theatre, but what goes around comes around.
  • Represented by the Farber Literary Agency, New York, NY, 1994-1996.

Listen and read at potluck.com.

Client, Farber Literary Agency

Represented by the Farber Literary Agency, New York, NY.

Music/Piano Teacher, Bastien methods

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