Charles Segal has enjoyed a long and multi-faceted musical career indiverse roles as musician, composer, music publisher, producer, and teacher. His manyprestigious awards include the equivalent of a Grammy - the South African Record Industry(SARI) Award for Song of the Year.Charles is the featured artist on over 500 albums. He has worked with many great musicians, such as Bill Evans and Bud Powell; hecomposes and plays "loops" for Hip-Hop artists and is a popular performer at Hollywoodevents in celebration of awards such as the Oscars, MTV Movie Awards, Teen and KidsChoice and more. Charles' music spans a myriad of cultures and styles, including Pop, Jazz,Classical, Contemporary, Film score, Ethnic, African, Relaxing and New Age music. Hehas produced albums with orchestras, pop groups, singers, traditional African groups, andalso children's music for his own label and international record companies.Charles is an amazing teacher. He was trained in classical piano performance and composition and attained a teacher's Licentiate from the Trinity College of London.

His "INSTANT" series of music tutor books, inspired by many years of teaching experience, guides aspiring musiciansquickly and easily through the basics of music so that they find themselves playing INSTANTLY at the first lesson.