In 2003, Warren M. Shadd founded SHADD Pianos, a USA Washington, DC based manufacturing company with production and development in Maryland, China, and Germany. SHADD is elated that its pianos have been placed on major TV shows, music festivals, recording sessions, as well as in Rolls-Royce showrooms, universities, palatial homes, and worldwide venerable institutions. In 2023, Warren founded SHADD Musical Instruments which is the parent company that represents production of its newly acclaimed band instruments. SHADD offers professional, intermediate, and student level band instruments at moderate prices. SHADD owns several important innovative patents that propitiously change the way we create, perform, teach, record, interact, and conceptualize music. SHADD is the first and only African American piano and band instrument large-scale manufacturing company in the world.
SHADD manufactures exquisite world-class pianos with beautiful exclusive bespoke designs: grands • uprights • art case • acrylic • interactive computerized hybrid models (acoustic and MIDI/synth) with groundbreaking keyboards coming soon! SHADD has placed its pianos with some of the greatest musicians, institutions, cathedrals, festivals, celebrities, and high net worth individuals. Now it’s your turn to own a world-class SHADD!
SHADD’s unlimited inventory of band instruments are known to offer higher grade instruments at moderate prices. Our instruments include; from triangles and tambourines, to tubas and sousaphones…and everything in between. Notice to K-12 and university band directors: We are your best friend! SHADD will give you the BEST deal and highest quality instruments for your marching and concert bands!Plus! You will receive repair parts with each ordered instrument!
So, whether you are a professional artist, advanced, a beginner, or a musical instrument enthusiast, a SHADD instrument will prove to be an invaluable investment.
SHADD is branding partners with Rolls-Royce.
- Official pianos of The Vatican with the initial SHADD piano designed exclusively for Pope Pianos performed with St. Peter’s Basilica concerts, Sistine Chapel Choir, daily concerts, and special performances for Pope Francis, since 2015.
- Official high-tech piano for the Pope’s new Music Academy in Rome/Vatican (Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music in the Holy Father’s Academy of Music in Rome),
- The official pianos on the #1 TV show, EMPIRE! (6 SHADD pianos on set), 2015-
- Branding partners with Rolls-Royce: SHADD pianos in showrooms, since 2015 –
- First-choice piano for numerous artists and piano provided for: Richard Smallwood, Patrice Rushen, Chip Crawford (Gregory Porter), Monty Alexander, Cyrus Chestnut, Wayne Linsey (Stevie Wonder), Michael Bearden (Lady Gaga), Esperanza Spalding, Samara Joy, Trombone Shorty, , since 2012 –
- Official pianos for numerous Jazz Festivals: Mid-Atlantic JF, True Blue JF, Monty Alexander JF, and DC JF, since 2014
- Concert grand for Congressional Black Caucus Annual Jazz Concerts, 2014-2020
- Piano used for the Annual Ministers Conference at Hampton University, since 2013 –
- Named favorite piano in Keyboard Magazine which was the first acoustic piano (non-keyboard) featured in the iconic Keyboard Magazine, 2015
- New piano for Langham Place Hotel, NYC’s #1 luxury hotel, since 2012 –
SHADD is the official pianos of the Vatican.
- Concert grand piano for American Idol, 2014
- Exclusive pianos in the #1 Casino: Resorts World Las Vegas, since 2019 –
- Piano in Conrad luxury hotel, Presidential Suite, since 2018 –
- Pianos for Berklee College of Music, since 2017 –
- Pianos for Hampton University School of Music, since 2014
Warren M. Shadd
Founder, CEO, Inventor, Innovator, Manufacturer
Bio Briefing: Warren M. Shadd – CEO, Inventor, Manufacturer
SHADD Pianos and SHADD Musical Instruments
Warren M. Shadd is a second-generation piano technician and third generation musician. As the founder of SHADD Pianos, USA in 2003, Warren has been proclaimed the First African American Piano Manufacturer- designing a new generation of luxury pianos and interactive keyboards that introduce groundbreaking technologies for musical instruments. SHADD Pianos USA is headquartered in Washington, DC with production in New York, Germany, Maryland, and China.
Awards for Warren M. Shadd
- Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award: from President Biden, 2023
- President’s Volunteer Service Award: from President Biden, 2023
- Capitol Hill Jazz Foundation Award, 2023
- Benny Golson Jazz Master Award, 2023
- Proclamation Award from Prince George’s County, MD, 2022
- DMV 48 Men of Power, 2022
- We Will Survive Cancer Humanitarian of the Year, 2022
- Washington Business Journal, Executive of the Year, 2021
- Living Legend Award, 2019
- Eastern Star 7 Executive of the Year, 2019
Complete Warren M. Shadd Bio
Inventions and Patents – In addition to originating and manufacturing new innovations for musical instruments, Warren Shadd has created numerous inventions which have effectuated into a plethora of groundbreaking patents including, but not limited to the following list:
Differing Abilities – Transformational interactive distance learning applications, and innovative Assistive technologies that enhance the lives of autistic, deaf, and blind individuals, and those with neurodevelopmental disabilities and neurobehavioral disorders.
Music & Medicine in Space – As a published author in the esteemed Music & Medicine Journal based upon groundbreaking technologies that improve the overall well-being and psyche of astronauts aboard the International Space Station by using his multifariously equipped high-tech computerized interactive keyboards. Warren Shadd’s technology propitiously changes the way we perform, create, teach, record, interact, explore, medically enrich, and conceptualize music, even in space.
SHADD Surveillance System – We STOP the Bad Guys BEFORE they get onto your property or into your building! SHADD Surveillance System is the REAL solution to eradicate Mass Shootings & Active Shooters. This innovative and humanitarian technology protects the lives of innocent people from getting killed or injured resulting from mass shootings. Our technology prevents against armed assailants, active shooters, and unauthorized gun carriers from initiating a mass shooting in vulnerable locations such as: Schools • Government Buildings • Hospitals • Airports • Churches • Stadiums/Arenas Hotels • Shopping Malls • Monuments • Resorts • Military Bases • Space Stations Banks • Police Stations • Movie Theaters • Concert Venues • Media Buildings Casinos • Utility Power Plants • TV/Movie Filming Locations • Museums • High-Risk Neighborhoods • Amusement Parks • Celebrity Estates • Manufacturing Facilities North/South Border Patrol.
SHADD-Ometer – A unique medical innovation that is intended to noninvasively detect various signatures/proteins in the bloodstream such as COVID, HIV, Sickle Cell, Diabetes, etc. The importance and differentiator of this innovation is that detection can be achieved noninvasively in 3 seconds or less. This medical evolution eliminates the need for drawing blood to identify blood content.
CashFinger – Biometrics retail purchasing technology where your fingers are equal to your credit cards! Make SECURE purchases anywhere with just 1 touch of your finger on the digital fingerprint reader! This innovation also eliminates identity theft, voter fraud, unauthorized airplane piloting, etc., with 100 % authentication that it’s YOU! Use it for hotel, banking safe deposit box, hospital groundbreaking innovative biometrics and forensics technology that protects consumers from identity theft and credit card fraud when making retail and online purchases. Once completely fabricated, this patented technology intends to boast a 100% accurate identification process that prevents scammers from stealing your personal and business information, ruining your credit, cloning your credit cards and identity, and presenting themselves as YOU! With all the damaging consequences involving identity theft today, this technology is set to become the leader in the secure identification industry.
SHADDLock – Law enforcement, military, hunters, intelligence agencies, and alike will highly benefit from the SHADDLock System incorporated on various weapons from firearms, bazookas, assault weapons, to fighter jets and tanks. Only YOU can lock or unlock your authorized and registered weapon using our extreme secure biometrics fingerprint reader. So now kids can’t take the weapon to school and cause a mass shooting!
Music in Space – SHADD Interactive Music Technology.
Media
Warren has been featured in numerous TV and radio interviews, podcasts, blogs, and articles such as The Washington Post Luxury Magazine, BBC, NBC News, ABC News, Fox News, Chicago Tribune Newspaper, NPR radio and online article, Music Inc. Magazine, Turkish Jazz Magazine, Washington Informer Newspaper, American Prospect Magazine, Keyboard Magazine, WAMU radio, Catholic Herald online, Essence Magazine, WHUR radio, The Sentinel Newspaper, Cape Gazette Newspaper, The Afro Newspaper, District Chronicles Newspaper, EWTN- International Catholic Television Network, MMR Magazine, Tom Joyner Radio Show, Harvard University Business School (doing a Case Study on SHADD achievements), Washington Business Journal, BusinessWiki, US News & World Report Magazine, etc.
Piano Tuner/Technician/Rebuilder
Prior to manufacturing his own SHADD brand pianos, Warren had a very active piano tuning and rebuilding company, servicing pianos for a plethora of iconic clients such as Tony Bennett, Herbie Hancock, Aretha Franklin, Gregory Porter, Josh Groban, Esperanza Spalding, Richard Smallwood, Stanley Clarke, Roberta Flack, Wynton Marsalis, David Sanborn, Al Jarreau, Shirley Horn, Joe Sample, Smokey Robinson, Ramsey Lewis, Diane Schuur, Will Downing, McCoy Tyner, Patti Austin, George Duke, Paquito D’Rivera, Terence Blanchard, Quincy Jones, Dr. John, Dave Brubeck, John Scofield, Gladys Knight, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Dianne Reeves, Kenny Garrett, Monty Alexander, Roberta Gambarini, Dr. Billy Taylor, Arturo Sandoval, Abbey Lincoln, George Benson, Valerie Simpson, Freddie Cole, Patrice Rushen, Ellis Marsalis, Poncho Sanchez, President William Jefferson Clinton, Mavis Staple, Nancy Wilson, Cyrus Chestnut, Christian McBride, Roy Hargrove, Wayne Shorter, The Department of State, The Smithsonian, Howard Theatre, BET Television, The Kennedy Center, The Library Of Congress, The Pentagon, Ronald Reagan Building, Ford’s Theater, National Gallery of Art, Lincoln Theater, National Theater, Warner Theater, Duke Ellington School of Arts, Blues Alley, Catholic University, Howard University, University of the District Of Columbia, University Of Maryland, Miss America Pageant, numerous churches, etc.
Musician
As a prolific musician on several instruments, but mainly drums, Warren played his first of many jazz concerts at the early age of four and was noted a child prodigy drummer. From high school through Howard University, he has performed with numerous icons such as Ella Fitzgerald, Nancy Wilson, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington Orchestra, Savion Glover, Redd Foxx Revue, Nell Carter, Lionel Hampton, Wynton Marsalis, Roy Hargrove, Shirley Horn, Phyllis Diller, Richard Smallwood, Ruth Brown, Slide Hampton, Etta Jones, Sir Roland Hanna, Phil Woods, Pepper Adams, Big Joe Turner, Phil Woods, Phyllis Hyman, James Moody, Kenny Burrell, Nicholas Payton, Zoot Simms, Andrew White, Joshua Redman, Jimmy Smith, Joe Williams, Jon Hendricks, Melba Moore, Frank Wess, Milt Jackson, Gary Bartz, Harry ‘Sweets’ Edison, Dorothy Donegan, etc.