Randy Naraine will play 30 minutes of music on piano starting from 1729 and ending in the year 2025 in a single medley. Each song will flow into the next one, passing through various styles, decades, composers, and musicians. Randy was a music teacher before working in cyber. Exposing students to various styles of music was one of the most fulfilling parts of that job. He hopes to recreate this on stage. (The medley song list will be shared via QR onstage.)
For the last part of the performance, Randy will take shoutouts from the audience of different themes, emotions, styles, tempos, etc., and try to do a live improvisation of three pieces based on the most common suggestions.
Randy is the manager of cybersecurity engineering at JetBlue Airways, based in Queens. He has been to 91 countries and all 50 states, often traveling with a MIDI controller to create music based on surroundings in every corner of the earth. He is passionate about cybersecurity, particularly defense automation, security data analytics, aircraft security, human exploits and defenses, and digital forensics. He plays around New York City at various venues throughout the year and loves to perform while interacting with the public. He believes music and the arts are needed to balance the often intense world of cybersecurity and technology.