PianoDance!™ features dance music from the Old World (Europe) and the New World (the Americas) including collaborations with Baroque, Flamenco and Ballroom dancers.

Need live music for your Christmas party?

Pianist, Melissa Smith, will provide sparkling ambience for your special event with gorgeous solo piano arrangements of holiday favorites including songs from her hit CD, Christmas on the Keys and other holiday classics.

Melissa Smith, Pianist and David Saslav, Tenor will lead your guests in holiday carol sing-alongs, traditional caroling, or live karaoke – highlighting your favorite Christmas songs. Fun for all ages – especially for children.

Melissa Smith

Melissa Smith is currently the substitute pianist for the Worship services in the Great Falls, Montana region at:

• First Congregational United Church of Christ
• Christ United Methodist Church
• First United Methodist Church
• Episcopal Church of the Incarnation
• Faith Lutheran Church

Past positions include:

• Saint Gregory Parish, San Mateo, California (Pianist and Choir Accompanist)
• First Presbyterian Church, San Mateo, California (Choir Accompanist)
• First Methodist Church, Lewistown, Montana (Choir Director)
• First Church of Christ, Scientist, Missoula, Montana (Substitute Organist)
• Salvation Army, Missoula, Montana (Pianist and Choir Accompanist)
• United Methodist Church, Missoula, Montana (Choir Accompanist)
• First Church of Christ, Scientist, Havre, Montana (Organist)
• First Presbyterian Church, Havre, Montana (Organist)
• Van Orsdel United Methodist Church, Havre, Montana (Children’s Choir Accompanist, Substitute Pianist and Organist)

David Saslav

David Saslav is the Choir Director at Sunrise Presbyterian Church in Great Falls, and can be found there every Sunday at 9:30 AM worship services at 3809 6th Avenue South, Great Falls, MT.

David Saslav has previously served as Tenor soloist, associate cantor, and assistant choir director to Rebecca Maggi at Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church in Palo Alto from 2010-2018. His solo and vocal compositions have been performed there, as well as at previous ecumenical postings, such as St. Francis Lutheran Church in San Francisco and The Swedenborgian Church of San Francisco.

Some of David’s solos and choral offerings at Saint Mark’s can be found on his YouTube channel.

First Fridays is an Artopia! project encouraging calm, contemplation, and relaxation in the listener. Melissa creates sound portraits while improvising on the piano in near-total darkness. Guests attending the Renditions Music Soundscape Studio are encouraged to bring mats, pillows and eye masks to enhance the stress-relieving effects. Melissa’s improvisations, such as Bird in the Dark #1, above, can be enjoyed equally from downloaded tracks, high-quality CD audio recordings, and live First Friday settings from October to May.

Inquire about hosting or attending a First Fridays event by emailing pianosmithmadlabs@gmail.com or calling Renditions Music Services at 650.363.8123

Choirs@Work began when David joined Oracle in 1993. He had recently performed and recorded with vocal ensembles in Cambridge, MA; Menlo Park, CA; and San Francisco, CA. These included the San Francisco Symphony Chorus, the California Bach Society, the San Francisco Bach Choir, Pacific Chamber Singers, MIT’s Chamber Choir, Choral Society, and Logarhythms, the Boston Cecilia Society, the Longy School Choir, and several others. Suddenly he found himself at a major software company, working alongside many other talented vocalists with equally strong, recent collegiate and community choir experiences. Many were recent transplants to the Bay Area and had found no local outlet with which to sing. David wasted no time in establishing and directing an open-forum rounds singing group, then christened it “SQL*Notes” a play on then company product name “SQL*Net”. Within a quarter or two, he had recruited a top-notch vocal sextet, named the Primary Keys. After a successful debut concert recital in a private home in Berkeley, the group evolved into “Ora*Cappella”, and opened its ranks to newly-hired Oracle employees. Ora*Cappella would go on to record and sing at public and private venues, including Oracle OpenWorld at Moscone Center in San Francisco (since renamed OracleWorld), the Oakland Coliseum, and several area holiday events, farmer’s markets and block parties in the surrounding community.

Ora*Cappella found it was not alone, however; employee singing groups were popping up left and right during the mid and late 1990s. And not just in high tech companies! When David and Melissa found out that even the San Francisco Meter Maids had formed an employee singing group, and begun to explore the restorative and healing qualities of vocal music in stressful corporate surroundings, the more universal Choirs@Work meme was born. Today, Oracle actually sports two employee choirs, one from an acquired company (Sun Microsystems), and Ora*Cappella, back after seven years in abeyance – David having rejoined Oracle in February 2015.