Biography
Jay Thomas Barbeau is a Composer, Pianist, Guitarist and Trombonist. He is also a seasoned software engineer. He has worked for such companies as Disney, Sony, and Alfred music publishing. Starting as a hardware engineer, he developed a cutting edge MIDI guitar controller in the late 80s, and also created a piano teaching software in the early 90s, and is still doing that. He is best known for composing the music and writing the interactive MIDI engine for EverQuest.
As a composer he has written music for video, film, and commercial purposes. Mr. Barbeau has also written the music for 12 original musical plays touring the U.S. for 8-10 weeks each. The music for EverQuest comprises of many varied styles, and there are over 150 pieces of Everquest music. His Musical Influences are J.S. Bach, Tchaikovsky, Grieg, Debussy, Chopin, John Williams, Sergio Mendez, David Foster. FOR guitar: Juan Carlos Jobim, Eddie Van Halen, Yngwe Malmsteen, Russ Freeman, Raul Midon, Joe Pass, Norman Brown, Joe Satriani.
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