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Dino Kartsonakis is known as dinokartsonakismusic.com America's Piano Showman, a title aptly given to one of the world's premier performers of our time. From Carnegie Hall to the honor of performing inside the Tower of David, Jerusalem, Dino has captured the world with his unique talent, stellar performances, and exceptional showmanship. Kartsonakis is a Grammy Award winner for the soundtrack of the movie, The Apostle. He was also nominated for Chariots of Fire, and is an eight-time Dove Award winner, and Tele Award winner for Miracles, which was filmed at David's Tower in Jerusalem. Dino's talent and performance prowess all started at the tender age of three, when he sat at an upright piano, and played both melody and harmony of a hymn he heard that morning at church. He grew into his talents and later studied piano at Julliard School of Music, and at conservatories in both France and Germany. He has toured the world and played in such places as Russia, Japan, China, and Israel, to name a few, also Carnegie Hall, The Hollywood Bowl, Lincoln Center, and many more prestigious venues nationwide. He has also performed for presidents and dignitaries. Aside from touring the world Dino has made countless network television appearances since the age of sixteen, including the highly rated talk show The Dino Show, produced and hosted by his wife Cheryl Kartsonakis and himself. For over thirty-five years they wowed audiences in over two hundred countries with a variety of celebrity guests as well as performances by Dino and Cheryl. Most recently, Dino had the distinction of playing at Israel's 70th Birthday Celebration Concert with the Israel Symphony Orchestra, the night before the US Embassy opened in Jerusalem, with Pat Boone serving as MC. In 2007 Dino and Cheryl opened Dino's 24Karrot Cake Company, located in Branson, Missouri, also shipping their Celebrity Favorite cakes nationwide. Dino is not only an entertainer, but a husband. He and Cheryl share two daughters, Christina and Cherie, and are grandparents to Cherie and her husband Steve's daughters, Lauren and Alexandra.

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