Our goal at MusicCreator is simple.

Help you make music you are proud of.

We are grateful to have served over 100,000 music creators including Grammy-winning producers, beginners, singer-songwriters, artists with billions of streams, guitarists, pianists, vocalists, instrumentalists, hobbyist and anyone that wanted to make music from over 100 countries worldwide.

Our educational content has received over millions of views with thousands of students enrolling in our courses.

Our goal is to serve over 1,000,000 music creators by 2026.

Meet Our Founder - Niko Kotoulas

Hey fellow MusicCreator - I'm Niko Kotoulas, a Greek-American based out of New York, Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Thessaloniki (went crazy with this whole remote thing lol).

In my life, I've created over 1,000,000 MIDI files (not by AI, by hand on the piano) and courses with thousands of students learning songwriting and piano.

The inspiration of my music stems from studying over 10,000 songs in my career, 50,000 chord progressions, and around 20,000 hours of playing piano/producing/compising.

It's unreal to me what this company has become, and I'm extremely grateful for all of your support. If you need something, please contact me at niko@musiccreator.com

I decided to put a little biography together to show you my musical journey to give you some inspiration. It's been a fun ride.

1993 - Born as a musical nerd

I was born right outside New York City into a family of Greek immigrants. The first words I uttered were not mom or dad, it was do-re-mi and that’s when my parents knew they needed to buy me a piano. I was also a nerd and wanted to use computers as soon as possible.

1995 - Falling in love with piano

At the age of 2, I began listening to songs on the radio and playing the melody on a child’s keyboard. The little keyboard to the
left of the big one was the one I used as a child. You can tell my pure joy from music in this photo and it would be something I would hold on for the rest of my life. 

2008 - Falling In Love

As most people dropped out of piano lessons, I started learning to play all genres including classical, hip-hop, indie, new-age, EDM, everything. I skipped lunch 4 out of 5 days a week to practice in the chorus room.

I joined bands, choruses, and any other music activity in school. I also enjoyed playing basketball and was pretty good at it so these were my two passions growing up. 

2012 - Studying under the pros

I attended Johns Hopkins University where I could do everything I loved – play piano and basketball. This is where I further developed my knowledge of music studying under some of the top classical composers in the world.

2013 - Silver lining

Everything seemed to be going well until this setback happened. I ruptured my foot, was told my recovery may never be 100% and I may never be able to competitively play basketball. I used this time to work on music even further and keep on my school work. 

2014 - Releasing my first album

While I couldn’t play basketball, I created a YouTube channel for my music, released my first album on Spotify and focused on getting my first internship at Morgan Stanley. If I never endured this injury, I probably would have never started my YouTube channel or released my first album. I guess you could use the cliche “everything happens for a reason”.

2016 - Side hustle

I graduated from JHU and worked as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley. Instead of going out on most weekends, I stayed in and worked on my music. Over the span of two years, I released 200 piano covers garnering a total of 15MM streams while concurrently working 60-100 hours a week at my “day-job”. 

2017 - The turning point

My music started to blow up on Spotify after landing on the Offiicial Acoustic Calm playlist. I started getting opportunities to perform at large venues on the weekends including the one pictured. Telling my boss I was flying out to Mexico to perform was 3,000 people was a funny conversation. It was even better when someone interrupted a meeting I was in to let me know the Chainsmokers reposted me playing piano on Instagram. Good times. I knew that I would have to explore music full-time or forever regret the consequence.

2018 - Leaving Wall Street to pursue music

While everyone always talks about leaving their job to pursue their passion, I actually did it. Yes, it was cool to say, but in reality I was back to square zero. I left New York City and the appeal of working on Wall Street to return home and live with my parents, with my income coming from royalty checks.

While I had a business plan, my first realization was that I needed to learn how to produce music, not just play piano. I worked on this relentlessly (10 hours a day, 6 days a week), and it paid off. This would be a skill that would make me more valuable wherever I went with my music

I got my first official remix with Borgeous and he played it live at Lavo Nightclub. Ok, so now where do I go?

2019 - The next step

After taking online courses for production, entrepreneurship, and other topics, I decided I wanted to get in the game. This is how PianoForProducers.com got started. 

Music producers struggle with composition – the cure is knowing how to use the piano effectively to unlock full creative potential. 

2020 - MIDI Pack Madness

In the spring of 2020, we launched the MIDI pack and it went pretty viral during the beginning of COVID. We ended up in the next few years having hundreds of thousands of music creators downloading the MIDI packs with millions of views on our ads. Some of my favorite artists are now customers which is mindblowing.

2025 - MusicCreator.com

Over the last five years, PianoForProducers.com / MusicCreator.com have launched hundreds of products and we now re-branded to a larger market. It's exciting to see what is to come with this whole journey and I'm grateful for you being a part of it.