Who is MSK?
(...in case you should care to know)
 

Marcello Sorce Keller (Milan 1947) because of a German-Swiss mother, a Sicilian father, and a serendipitous outing to the US that lasted over ten years, feels now like a foreigner even in the three Countries he is most familiar with: Italy, Switzerland and the USA.

As a young man he produced considerable pollution as a pop music arranger and lounge pianist. Later, to make amendments, somehow he managed to obtain a degree in sociology (Milan University), one in composition (Milan Conservatory), and a Ph.D. in musicology (University of Illinois). He has always been interested in music and often tries to pass on to others what (according to a charming lady who abruptly left him years ago) should be better described as an “obsession”. Over the years he taught in the US, Italy, Australia, Malta and Switzerland. Also, whenever his laziness could be overcome, he published a few books, articles, essays and reviews, and contributions to reference works. However, all along, MSK never ceased to occasionally help, as a ghostwriter, renowned pop and jazz arrangers, in Europe and the US. Now, officially retired, he is honored to be Assozierter Forscher in the Institute für Musikwissenschaft at the University of Bern, in Switzerland. 

When not sleeping (activity he cultivates without guilty feelings), he likes to practice his musical instruments and write frivolous piano pieces. He lives at the outskirts of Lugano (Switzerland), all by himself, without even the company of cats or dogs who would certainly have a hard time putting up with him. But there is a friendly crow who occasionally pays him a visit on the balcony of his apartment.