In addition to his role in Compton & Bennett, Rick Compton is an author, an award-winning freelance writer, a musician and founder of Via Colori®.
Rick's first book, The Essential Street Painter (Cider Mill Press, Simon & Schuster) was launched June, 2009, and won him a guest appearance on CBS's The Early Show from New York.
Writing for regional media in Southwest Florida, Rick has won 6 Florida magazine Association awards for features and humor. He is a regular contributor to national publisher CPAmerica's accountancy newsletter More Than Money on topics important to not-for-profit organizations.
Rick has played piano and synthesizer in pit orchestras for dozens of musical plays and served as music director for several. He has toured Japan as keyboardist with Rock-and-Roll Hall of Fame artists The Platters.
In 1993, Rick founded Via Colori®, a street painting festival to raise funds for important social causes. Since then, it has grown to become an annual event in seven cities in the United States, involving more than 1000 artists and raising more than $1 million dollars a year.
Rick's first book, The Essential Street Painter (Cider Mill Press, Simon & Schuster) was launched June, 2009, and won him a guest appearance on CBS's The Early Show from New York.
Writing for regional media in Southwest Florida, Rick has won 6 Florida magazine Association awards for features and humor. He is a regular contributor to national publisher CPAmerica's accountancy newsletter More Than Money on topics important to not-for-profit organizations.
Rick has played piano and synthesizer in pit orchestras for dozens of musical plays and served as music director for several. He has toured Japan as keyboardist with Rock-and-Roll Hall of Fame artists The Platters.
In 1993, Rick founded Via Colori®, a street painting festival to raise funds for important social causes. Since then, it has grown to become an annual event in seven cities in the United States, involving more than 1000 artists and raising more than $1 million dollars a year.
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