CAYUGA PRO DJ SERVICE
All music - All occasions
KURT LICHTMANN - (607) 266-0282 - kpL5@cornell.edu

If you live in or near Ithaca, you have probably seen photos of myself and dance teaching partners in the Ithaca Journal or on posters. I teach six dance classes a semester at Cornell University, and maintain the CU Phys Ed website. I am also proprietor of ithaca dance, currently teaching at Island Health & Fitness, and privately at my Cayuga Heights studio.

I graduated Ithaca College '82 M.M. Music Ed. (Voice,Piano) and Cornell '70 B.A. I led the pop-rock band THE CORVETTES for 15 years of clubs, weddings, reunions, banquets, more weddings...

I am founder/ producer/ DJ for one of the WVBR 93.5 fm radio weekend specialty shows.

In 1978, I founded the WHITON CHORALE of the Ithaca Community School Of Music & Art (locally know as CSMA), directing it for four years. We performed almost exclusively acappella, very adventurous for an amateur group with casual committment!

Graduating I.C., I developed a songwriting workshop program for schools. During the space of ten years, I visited at over 100 Central New NY public schools, writing songs with students in every current pop style, performing many, many concerts. I'll put some excerpts on the web one of these days: some nice material (of course, my evaluation is biased...).

I come from Highland Park NJ. My first musical inspiration was my Dad, who liked to improvise on piano, and taught himself piano while in the Army during WWII. At age 10, I started on guitar, taking lessons in classical style, with current pop tunes on the side. Next came a folk music group, then rock bands, then classical piano, classical voice, choral music, saxophone, composing... Dance is the most recent, and equally consuming chapter. In 2005, I began teaching my son to play guitar! And in 2006, I started composing and recording dance music for my classes, and embarked on my first DVD project (dance instruction) bringing it all together! Now it is 2008, and after a very long hiatus, I seem to have re-discovered my belcanto singing voice, but on a new plateau on intensity - very exciting for me, actually....

As a performer, I learned to put the happiness of the audience first.
As a DJ, I always put YOU and your guests first.
"Your satisfaction is my satisfaction."
That is my professional motto.