Tish Diaz
piano , keyboards 
TishDiaz-E5-0318

Tish Diaz

  • Piano, Keyboards
  • Background vocals
  • Musical Director
  • Arranger
  • Keyboard Programming
  • Logic ProX, Sibelius

Contact Tish

contact@tishdiazmusic.com

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BANDS

  • AKA Romeo - Original HipHop, Los Angeles, CA
  • Wild Rose - Grammy-nominated country band, Nashville, TN
  • Encore - Corporate R & B band,  San Francisco, CA
  • The Horndawgs - Classic R&B and Rock/Pop,  Branson, MO
  • Table Rock - Classic Rock, Branson, MO
  • Trial By Fire  - Original Rock, Los Angeles, CA
  • Various casual and Top 40 bands

TELEVISION APPEARANCES

  • America’s Got Talent (with cast of Jersey Boys)
  • Andy Williams’ Greatest Hits -­ PBS Special
  • Andy Williams’ Christmas -­ PBS Special
  • Live with Regis and Kathie Lee
  • Good Morning America

LIVE PERFORMANCES

  • BAT: A Meat Loaf Celebration
  • Meat Loaf, "Rocktellz & Cocktellz" (Planet Hollywood, Las Vegas, NV)
  • Regis and Kathie Lee, Live In Concert (Branson, MO)
  • Las Vegas Celebrates the Music of Michael Jackson, Pearl Amphitheater (Las Vegas, NV)
  • Andy Williams, Moon River Theater (Branson, MO)
  • Andy Williams and Petula Clark, Royal Albert Hall, London, England
  • Glen Campbell
  • Robert Goulet
  • Debbie Boone
  • Pat Boone

BROADWAY SHOWS, NATIONAL TOURS AND SHORENTSTEIN HAYES - NEDERLANDER PRODUCTIONS

  • Jersey Boys
    • San Francisco - 2007
    • Las Vegas company, 2007-2016 - keyboard, background vocals, conductor sub
    • Second national tour, 2017 -2019
  • Teatro Zinzanni (2005-2007)
    • Cabaret/dinner theater show - house pianist/keboardist/synth programmer, performed with Liianne Montivecchi, Thelma Houston, Sarah Dash (La Belle), Huey Lewis, Francine Reid (Lyle Lovett's Large Band)
  • Lion King - Keyboard sub, Keyboard books 1 & 3 - San Francisco, CA
  • Mamma Mia
    • 1st national tour -  Keyboard Book 4, San Francisco, CA
    • 2nd national tour, vacation sub - Keyboard Books 2 & 4
  • Little Shop of Horrors National tour - San Francisco, CA
  • White Christmas, Keyboard sub - San Francisco, CA
  • Beauty and the Beast National tour - San Francisco; tour sub, Fresno, CA)
  • Annie 25th Anniversary Tour - San Francisco, CA
  • Rent - Keyboard sub, National tour - San Francisco CA
  • Ragtime - Sacramento Music Circus, Sacramento, CA
  • Peter Pan - Sacramento, CA
  • Miss Saigon - American Musical Theater, San Jose, CA
  • Sweet Charity - National tour, San Jose, CA 

Regional and Community Theater

  • Harold and Maude -­ TheatreWorks, Palo Alto
  • Jane Eyre -­ TheatreWorks, Palo Alto
  • Grease (Associate) -­ American Musical Theater, San Jose
  • Miss Saigon -­ American Musical Theater, San Jose
  • Sweet Charity -­ American Musical Theater, San Jose
  • Will Rogers’ Follies -­ Woodminster Summer Musicals, Oakland, CA
  • Meshugganuns -­ The Willows Theater, Concord, CA
  • Godspell -­ Hillbarn Theater, Foster City, CA

MUSICAL DIRECTION

  • Erich Bergen Live at Feinstein's - Hotel Nikko, San Francisco  
  • Positively Arts Showcase - Palazzo Resort, Las Vegas
    • Musical director, arranger, pianist
  • Las Vegas Celebrates the Music of Michael Jackson, Pearl Amphitheater, Las Vegas
    • house bandleader, arranger, keyboardist
  • Erich Bergen at the Liberace Museum, Las Vegas 
  • Jaques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris - Mendocino Opera Company, Mendocino, CA

 

REHEARSAL PIANIST/ACCOMPANIST

  • Film adaptation of “Rent”
  • Lestat (San Francisco, pre-Broadway)
  • Lennon (San Francisco, pre-Broadway)
  • Disney Tokyo auditions
  • American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA) - West Coast auditions accompanist
  • American Conservatory Theater (San Francisco, CA)
  • Notre Dame de Namur University - Staff accompanist, coach (Belmont, CA)
  • Kids of the Century (Los Angeles, CA)
  • Positively Arts (Las Vegas, NV)
  • Vocal studio of Seth Riggs
  • Vocal studio of Mara Baygulova

TOURS

  • Andy Williams, U.S., U.K. and Asia tours
  • Wild Rose (Grammy Nominated Country band) -­ USA and Germany
  • Meat Loaf
  • Mamma Mia
  • Jersey Boys

SYNTHESIZER PROGRAMMER

  • Grease
  • Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
  • Damn Yankess
  • Sound of Music
  • Ragtime
  • Jane Eyre
  • Andy Williams Show at the Moon River Theater
  • Las Vegas Celebrates the Music of Michael Jackson

OTHER

  • Composer and co-­songwriter, support musician for Composer/Songwriter Showcase, Smith Center Cabaret-­Jazz Room, Las Vegas
  • Composer for 1171 Productions, Los Angeles
    • jingles, movies trailers, incidental music