Video:  KF/BHC artist Jeffrey Gilliam visiting Steinway Factory in NYC to select WWU's new 9 foot Steinway "B".  Click here.
It has been named the Ford Hill Steinway

For tickets and reservations, call: 360-671-6104, 360-661-5984, or email bellinghamhouseconcerts@gmail.com

$15.00 adults, $12.00 seniors, $10.00 students, $5.00 youth under 18 for all Keyboard Friends Concerts
$20 for all Bellingham House Concerts which includes refreshments (limited to 30 guests)

Next concert, Sunday January 29, 2012, 3 PM (CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS)

 
L to R: Jeffrey Gilliam, Ford Hill, Victoria Ebel-Sabo, Dan Sabo, Cassandra Carr, Patrick Stephens, Kay Zavislak, Jon Mutchler  (click here for bios)
* Performances at the Bellingham downtown Amadeus Project on both a 7' Schimmel and 6'8" Fandrich & Sons Grand Pianos
** Performances in the intimacy of private homes on outstanding grand pianos owned by artists and professional pianists (Steinway, Fazioli, etc.)
(Please note that BCH private home concerts usually fill up completely before the concert date).
  

Note: All concerts are on Sunday afternoons at 3 PM
 
October 2, 2011 ­ TWO TIMES TWO ON TWO BY FOUR
Hill and Gilliam, Sabo and Sabo, Schimmel and Fandrich, Bach, Schnittke, Mozart, and Cohen
Sunday 3:00 pm    The Amadeus Project, at 1209 Cornwall Avenue (click here for Google map/location)
 
November 20, 2011 ­ MINIATURES AND MASTERPIECES
Special Guest ­ Classical Pianist Kay Zavislak performs Bach, Beethoven, and Chopin
Sunday 3:00 pm    The Amadeus Project, at 1209 Cornwall Avenue (click here for Google map/location)
 
January 29, 2012  ­ HALLELUJAH AND AMEN!
Jeffrey Gilliam, Dan and Victoria Sabo perform Adams and Messiaen
Sunday 3:00 pm   Cassandra Carr and Gary Ballew Residence (South Bellingham: directions will be provided to ticket holders)
 
March 4, 2012 ­ IT ALL STARTED SOMEWHERE ELSE - A PROGRAM OF PIANO TRANSCRIPTIONS
Whatcom County Pianists - TBA
Sunday 3:00 pm    The Amadeus Project, at 1209 Cornwall Avenue (click here for Google map/location)
 
April 1, 2012 ­ ONE OF A KIND! NO FOOLIN'! 
Sabo Plays Schiffmacher, CD release party! 
Sunday 3:00 pm    The Amadeus Project, at 1209 Cornwall Avenue (click here for Google map/location)
 
April 22, 2012 ­ WE HAVE THE RITE TO CELEBRATE SPRING!
Cassandra Carr, Patrick Stephens, Dan Sabo, and Victoria Ebel-Sabo, and Special guests perform Stravinsky and music inspired by Spring
Sunday 3:00 pm    The Amadeus Project, at 1209 Cornwall Avenue (click here for Google map/location)
 
May 20, 2012 ­ TOME TO TONE, THE POETRY IS IN THE MUSIC
Ford Hill, Cassandra Carr, Jeffrey Gilliam, Dan Sabo, Arthur Barnes, Victoria Ebel-Sabo, and Judith Widrig perform piano music with a literary connection.
Sunday 3:00 pm    The Amadeus Project, at 1209 Cornwall Avenue (click here for Google map/location)

TICKET INFORMATION: Please call 360-671-6104 or email
bellinghamhouseconcerts@gmail.com
Keyboard Friends Piano Concerts
The Amadeus Project $15.00-Adults, $12.00-Seniors, $10.00-Students, $5.00-Youth (under 18)
Bellingham House Concerts ­ Private homes
Donation of $20.00 Includes light refreshments. Reserve in advance. Limited to 50 guests!

ARTIST BIOS
 
FORD HILL
Ford Hill graduated from Wisconsin State University at Eau Claire with a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship.  At Indiana University, Hill was awarded a Performers Certificate and took first prize in the Concerto Competition for graduate students. Ford Hill has taught at numerous schools including Western Washington University.  He has performed throughout the Pacific Northwest, Canada, and Australia and has adjudicated and given many master classes and workshops for festivals in Canada and Washington State.  Many of his students have won local, state, and regional competitions. Recently, Hill was honored by the Bellingham Arts Commission with a Mayor's Arts Award.
 
JEFFREY GILLIAM
Since joining the piano faculty at Western Washington University in 1992, pianist Jeffrey Gilliam has performed throughout the Pacific Northwest as solo recitalist; as chamber musician and soloist in the Marrowstone and Bellingham Festivals; as concerto soloist with local orchestras; and as guest pianist with The Seattle Chamber Players at Seattle's Benaroya Hall. In addition, Mr. Gilliam's extended association with the late Lord Yehudi Menuhin has led to his collaboration with superb instrumentalists, with whom he has performed at London's Wigmore Hall, The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., Carnegie Recital Hall in New York City; in numerous concert tours across the U.S. and Canada, and in distinguished European, Asian, and South American festivals.
 
CASSANDRA CARR
Cassandra Carr's musical work and interests include music criticism and musicology, performance, and teaching. She performs with Arthur Barnes as a duo-piano team, and in chamber recitals throughout the state, and has served on the music faculties of Seattle University, City University, and the University of Washington. Her spirited lectures and workshops on a variety of musical subjects are in frequent demand, as is her work as Master class clinician and adjudicator.
 
VICTORIA EBEL-SABO
Victoria is a published composer and was named "Composer of the Year, 2009", by the Washington State Music Teacher's Association.  Besides composing a number of choral and solo piano works, Victoria has composed three full length ballets, "Mary Poppins", "Peter Pan", and "Pepito's Story", for the Boulder Ballet in Boulder Colorado. Her works, in both sheet-music and collections, have been published by Boosey and Hawkes, Kjos, Willis, Mark Foster, and Santa Barbara Publishing. 
 
DAN SABO
A former student of renowned French pianist, Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen, Dan Sabo has performed extensively as a soloist and as duo-pianist (with his wife, Victoria), in Europe and the United States.  They were awarded the Higher Diploma, with great distinction, in chamber music, by the Royal Conservatory of Music, Brussels, Belgium. The Sabos have released a CD of four-hand music by Janacek and Dvorak.  Dan Sabo has released a CD of Scriabin's Preludes and will release a CD of music of Chopin's student, Joseph Schiffmacher, in the coming year.  Dan will perform the Grieg Concerto with the Bainbridge Symphony in November.

JON MUTCHLER
Jon is a former student of Ford Hill and WWU BMus graduate. He has taught piano and performed publically for over 30 years. He has seven self-produced CDs of piano music and 
blends his background and experience in jazz and classical music (available at Amazon.com).  Jon plays each Saturday night at Semiahmoo Resort's Stars
Restaurant. Jon is also the pastor of Ferndale Alliance Church and raises seven children with his wife Diane. More at JonMutchler.com. Jon is also a Ferndale City Council member.

PATRICK STEPHENS

Patrick Stephens is an independent piano teacher in Seattle. He has appeared in recitals with singers, choirs and chamber groups in Seattle, New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Berlin and Salzburg.  He received a degree in Mathematics from Fordham University in New York City.  His website is pianotempo.com.

KAY ZAVISLAK
American pianist Kay Zavislak enjoys a teaching and performing career shaped by an international upbringing.  Spending her formative years in Japan, Zavislak attended the Toho Gakuen High School of Music.  She holds the degrees BM, MM, and DMA from the University of Michigan and has studied under the guidance of Arthur Greene, Logan Skelton, Yoshie Kora, and Miyoko Hamamoto.  Zavislak has appeared in public performances nationally and abroad and has won numerous prizes in both the US and Japan.  She is an assistant professor of piano at the University of Idaho.

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