Tracy Stark

Pianist/ Musical Director/ Arranger/ Conductor/ SingerSongwriter, Tracy Stark is a 2009 double MAC Award winner (Manhattan Association of Cabarets and Clubs), a Backstage Bistro Award winner for Musical Direction, and most recently won the 2008 Dottie Burman Songwriting Award. Tracy has worked with Lesley Gore (It’s My Party, You Don’t Own Me, Out Here On My Own), Academy Award nominee Karen Black (Easy Rider, Nashville, Five Easy Pieces, Trilogy of Terror), Phoebe Snow, Randy Jones (Village People), Jimmy Osmond, Broadway’s Tovah Feldshuh, Eric Millegan, Tonya Pinkins, Ann Crumb, and hundreds of other rock, jazz, and Broadway vocalists. She has conducted, played, and sung at all the finest and worst venues all over the world.

 She began playing piano at age 4, and has had at least 20 years of classical training throughout her life, (including a degree from Oberlin Conservatory) but mostly wrote songs and played rock and blues, when she should have been practicing for concerto competitions.

 Before moving to New York from San Francisco, Tracy toured Europe for 3 years, hitting most countries from Greece up to Norway, stopping in Amsterdam whenever possible.

 Some accolades as a songwriter:Her song “Life’s Been Kind” won an honor award in the Great American Song Contest, with the comment, “...flashes of brilliance” from the judges.

“Right Where I Belong won 2nd place in the Southern Songwriter’s Competition, and “The Only One” won a “very honorable mention” (notice, VERY honorable).

“Woman on the Stage” was recently performed at this year’s MAC awards.

“Morning Light” spent weeks at #1 in 5 separate categories on Broadjam.com.

“A Million Hearts,” the song Tracy wrote in the wake of 9/11, not only won an honor award in the UNISONG contest, but it was also featured on the New York Times website. Her songs appear on at least 20 compilations of recording artists.

Her first CD, “Canvas of Dreams,” which was produced by Ferron, has received critical acclaim, and has been called, “a masterpiece in museum quality presentation.”

 Her most recent CD, Feast for the Heart, which was exquisitely produced by Richard Barone and features a duet with the inimitable Phoebe Snow.

 Always exploring ways to redefine the art of covering other people’s music, Tracy has a repertoire of at least 2000 songs, and can be found rocking out every Tuesday for drunken tourists, at the famous Don’t Tell Mama, in New York City.