Craig Burdette is a freelance pianist, composer, conductor and teacher living in the San Francisco bay area with his partner, Ron Decker, and their three 'kids' (canine variety) Bugsy,  Roscoe, & Lucy.   Craig studied piano and composition with Evelyne Crochet and Marjorie Merryman at Boston University, and Betty Nolting in his hometown of Atlanta, Georgia.

Musical influences which shape the music on Recollections, are George Winston, Jim Brickman, Burt Bacharach and Stephen Sondheim.