Paul Gaspar also performs as a jazz & salsa pianist in Upstate NY groups with the Midtown Athletic Club Jazz Quintet, and freelances as a soloist & for rhythm sections (including covering "left hand" bass parts on bass-less gigs); as well as for church & pit orchestras. Piano was actually Paul's first instrument (from age 3), and has always been an integral part of his music career, including performing an original composition (Something Under the Bed is Drooling) for alto sax & piano at his recent Eastman degree recital.