Jane Mangini

Composer, Keyboard player, and Producer. Crowned “the goddess of poly-rhythmic playing”, Jane has performed with several rock, jazz, pop, and metal bands and projects. She played keyboards and covered the bass parts as a member of the trio Einstein with drummer Jonathan Mover and guitar player Stan Jankowski, in 1995 and again in 2001. In 2002, she joined Trans-Siberian Orchestra as a featured band member on stage, as well as on their albums The Lost Christmas Eve (2004) and Night Castle (2009), which includes two tracks she co-wrote, “Tracers” and CD bonus track “Flight of Cassandra.” In 2003 she played keyboards on the album [m1176455], a side project of Twisted Sister lead singer Dee Snider, and she performed on [m503050], his eighth solo album. Also in 2003, she collaborated with TSO guitarist and former husband, Al Pitrelli, to start a new band called O’2L (pronounced O’Toole), which put out their first album O'2L that year featuring 13 songs written and arranged by Jane. They released their second acclaimed album Doyle's Brunch in 2005, written, performed, produced and mixed by Jane.