Jim Odrich

Jim Odrich was a pianist, composer and arranger who took a master's degree in music and a doctorate in education at Columbia University, and before his New York years he played and arranged for the Airmen of Note of the United States Air Force. His later work ran to recordings, broadcast music and arrangements for André Kostelanetz, and he taught in the Mineola school district and at Five Towns College. For Music Minus One he recorded Opera Arias for Piano and Orchestra with the Plovdiv Philharmonic under Nayden Todorov, and he died in 2022.