About: George F. Spicka

"We are what we repeatedly do.  Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."  -  Aristotle 

Most of my "serious" artistic efforts have been in the field of music creation.  That is the focus of this website.

This is a link to my "Baker Artists Award Profile" - http://bakerartist.org/portfolios/george-spicka

My interest in painting and drawing, photography, along with assorted commentary and quotes can be viewed here: http://georgespicka.weebly.com/

I've also built a site to honor Dawn C. Culbertson (1951-2004), founder of the Baltimore Composers Forum - http://dawnculbertson-bcf.weebly.com/

This site is for artist-in-the-making, Lillian Scieszka :)  http://lillianscieszka.weebly.com/
Upcoming Events:
George Spicka Quartet - May 16, 2017 - Dundalk Citizen of the Year Awards Ceremony / Baltimore
George Spicka - July 21, 2017 - ARTSCAPE 2017 - 2-3pm / New Directions in Music (solo piano originals)
                                                  Falvey Hall, Brown Center / 1301 W. Mt. Royal Avenue, Baltimore MD
George Spicka & Baltimore Jazz Works ~ Oct 9, 2017 ~ An die Musik ~ 8pm / 409 N Charles St / Baltimore
Glenn Angus Jazz Quartet - October 28, 2017 - Germano's Piatini - 7-9pm / 300 S High St / Little Italy, Baltimore
Glenn Angus Jazz Quartet - Dec 23, 2017 - Germano's Piatini - 7-9pm / 300 S High St / Little Italy, Baltimore
Contact"Keyboard Mania" (c)1973 G.F. Spicka
A Brief Statement:

Through a combination of fate and genetics,   I've ended up, after some 60 years of dabbling, experimenting, and obsessing with the arts, as a person, who now is seemingly approaching his end time, as one who has had a prolific, and perhaps even meaningful existence on the
planet.

 My initial interest was natural science, the things I saw in the everyday world, especially
in the summer months, as I trekked through the woods that once dominated the Carney area of Baltimore County, MD.

While I still keep that alive via my fossil collecting hobby, in college, the focus turned to music.  Local shows, bar and club gigs, concerts, then out of town, out of state, touring, traveling, one night stands, the mid-Atlantic, New England, the Midwest, the South, for eight years, then a home in Silver Spring, then an apartment in Baltimore, then a real house, then despair, then tragedy, coping, only to be thrown another curve, then another, then another.  And yet I'm still standing.  I'm really quite not sure how.  Perhaps somewhere in this accumulation of information lies the answer.