Background
Wayne began playing piano at the age of four and played tenor drum in the orchestra pit of The King and I at the age of five which his father was conducting, and performed his first composition in concert at the age of eleven.
Wayne began playing piano at the age of four and played tenor drum in the orchestra pit of The King and I at the age of five which his father was conducting, and performed his first composition in concert at the age of eleven.
His style is an amalgamation of classical music influenced by popular idioms. Wayne also has several film scores and award-winning commercials for television to his cartulary-register The 1970s saw him performing in the popular/rock world for bands such as Jobriath (Elektra Records).
He toured with Sly Stone, the Yardbirds with Jimmy Page, Billy Joel, Gordon Lightfoot, Gladys Knight and the Fifth Dimension.
He was commissioned to write In Memoriam: A Celebration, by the Interfaith Concert of Holocaust Remembrance, which premiered at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in New York in 1993. Subsequently linked with Sinfonietta Number.
1: The Klezmer and An Elegy Into Madness, specifically commissioned for the Fiftieth Anniversary of Israel, and titled A Triptych, had its world première at Mandel Hall, the University of Chicago in January 1998. In February 1995, his Symphony #4-FUNK had its world premiere at the Janacek Theatre in Brno, The Czechoslovakian Republic.
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He also has several film scores and award-winning commercials for television to his cartulary-register The Rosenberger Variations was an original work composed in honor of his teacher Irmgard Hess Rosenberger.
He won a second prize medal for piano solo from the New York State Music Awards at fifteen. In the 1980s, Wayne returned to composing and 1983 he opened a new theater for the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles with his metaphorical circus Wire, won $10,000 United States dollar as national first place in 1987 from the National Institute for Music Theater with Neon (A Street Opera). In 2002, NEON won a 25,000 Doctor of Medicine prize in the International Prague Opera Competition.
