Douglas Docker
| Douglas R. Docker | |
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Douglas R. Docker performing live (May 2012)
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Douglas Ralph Docker |
| Born |
16 June 1967 Auxerre, France |
| Genres | Rock, progressive rock, progressive metal, AOR, hard rock, heavy metal, space rock, electronic, European classical, Music of Thailand |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, singer, songwriter, composer, producer, musicologist, ethnomusicologist, teacher and teacher trainer |
| Instruments | Piano, keyboards, bass, vocals |
| Years active | 1977–present |
| Labels | Ash America, Avenue of Allies, Battlegod Productions, Black Swan Records, DNA Records, GAN, Lion Music, Massacre Records, Pride & Joy Music, Rock Company, Zero Corp. |
| Associated acts | Antonio Caffaro, Area 51, Biloxi, Docker's Guild, Frantic Amber, Tony Mills, Night Fever, Rustfield, Shining Line, Vivaldi Metal Project |
| Website | Docker's Guild Official Website |
Douglas R. Docker (born 16 June 1967) is an American-French musician, singer, songwriter and producer best known for his work in the progressive rock/metal, AOR and classical genres. He has worked with artists including Biloxi, Area 51, Shining Line, Therion, Rustfield, Frantic Amber,Tony Mills, and the Vivaldi Metal Project.
From 1977 to 1981 Docker performed as a second violinist in the orchestra of the Istituto Musicale Corelli of Pinerolo. From 1978 to 1988 he competed as a pianist in about a dozen international classical piano competitions (Senigallia, Stresa, Bardolino, Torre Pellice, Capri), receiving two first prizes. He also performed in recitals as a classical pianist throughout the 1980s.
In September of the same year he obtained a BA in Classical Piano at the Conservatory of Cuneo. He was then hired to play piano and organ on the album Ave Maria by Italian tenor Antonio Caffaro.
In June 1996, Docker briefly returned to classical music with a recital called "Paesaggi Esotici", performed at the Turin Museum of Natural History. Featuring Mio Nakamura on vocals, the program included operatic arias and traditional songs linked by the common theme of "the exotic" (particularly Asia).
In November 1999, he performed Allegro de Concierto by Enrique Granados at the SFI-Västertorp in for its yearly Kulturdagen (Culture Day).
Docker returned to Italy in January 2008. In 2011 he published an article cataloging the Waldensian musical heritage.
In 2008, Docker began a project named "Docker's Guild". Its album The Mystic Technocracy – Season 1: The Age of Ignorance was released in 2012 on Lion Music, described by the artist's record label as a progressive rock space opera. Performers on the album included Tony Franklin, Guthrie Govan, Jeff Watson, Greg Bissonette, Goran Edman, John Payne, Tony Mills, and Amanda Somerville. In 2016 Docker released a crowdfunded sequel entitled The Heisenberg Diaries – Book A: Sounds of Future Past. A Season 2 --- "The Age of Entropy" --- is planned. Docker has indicated that "Season 2 is in the works, but the format will change. The age of rock operas has passed and it's time to focus on the music rather than on the names."
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