Native Texan TIMOTHY HESTER is Associate Professor of Piano and Director of Keyboard Collaborative Arts at the Moores School of Music at the University of Houston where he also enjoys instructing students in the skills of sight reading and collaborative techniques. Named Faculty Member of the Year in 2003 as presented by the Moores Society, Hester earned a Master's degree in Piano Performance from The Juilliard School as a student of the renowned pedagogue ADELE MARCUS. Mr. Hester has also taught Opera Studies at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music. Mr. Hester has appeared worldwide in venues in Britain, France, Italy, The Netherlands, Mexico, Canada, Japan, Singapore and Taiwan. He is regular performing faculty member of the Schlern International Music Festival in Northern Italy. In the United States, he has performed the NYC Bargemusic Series, the Ojai Festival in California, the Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival, the Park City International Chamber Music Festival in Utah, the Texas Music Festival, and the OK Mozart Festival in Oklahoma as well as performing with Da Camera, a Houston-based chamber music ensemble. He has especially enjoyed collaboration with such artists as Paula Robison, Patricia Racette, Ransom Wilson, Christiaan Bor, Nathaniel Rosen, Arturo Delmoni, Nina Beilina, William Sharp, Eugenia Zukerman, Leon Speirer, Jean Ter-Mergerian, Mitchell Stern, Paul Neubauer and Reiko Watanabe as well as with his esteemed Houston colleagues. Mr. Hester’s discography includes twentieth century works of Robert Beaser, Arnold Rosner, Michael Horvit, Roy Harris, Samuel Barber and Bohuslav Martinu as well as the solo CD “KUHF Sessions”, the first recording made in Houston Public Radio’s new studio. In addition, Mr. Hester studied extensively with Albert Hirsh and maintains a busy accompanying schedule, also having played master classes for Jean-Pierre Rampal, Pinchas Zukerman, Itzhak Perlman, Carol Wincenc, Richard Stoltzman, Renato Capecchi, Vladimir Spivakov, Ruggiero Ricci and many others. Additionally, he is Chief Artistic Consultant for Rehearsalnet.com, an internet-based business that offers downloadable midi-file accompaniments for training soloists and accompanists in their musical preparation.
Native Texan TIMOTHY HESTER is Associate Professor of Piano and Director of Keyboard Collaborative Arts at the Moores School of Music at the University of Houston where he also enjoys instructing students in the skills of sight reading and collaborative techniques. Named Faculty Member of the Year in 2003 as presented by the Moores Society, Hester earned a Master's degree in Piano Performance from The Juilliard School as a student of the renowned pedagogue ADELE MARCUS. Mr. Hester has also taught Opera Studies at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music. Mr. Hester has appeared worldwide in venues in Britain, France, Italy, The Netherlands, Mexico, Canada, Japan, Singapore and Taiwan. He is regular performing faculty member of the Schlern International Music Festival in Northern Italy. In the United States, he has performed the NYC Bargemusic Series, the Ojai Festival in California, the Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival, the Park City International Chamber Music Festival in Utah, the Texas Music Festival, and the OK Mozart Festival in Oklahoma as well as performing with Da Camera, a Houston-based chamber music ensemble. He has especially enjoyed collaboration with such artists as Paula Robison, Patricia Racette, Ransom Wilson, Christiaan Bor, Nathaniel Rosen, Arturo Delmoni, Nina Beilina, William Sharp, Eugenia Zukerman, Leon Speirer, Jean Ter-Mergerian, Mitchell Stern, Paul Neubauer and Reiko Watanabe as well as with his esteemed Houston colleagues. Mr. Hester’s discography includes twentieth century works of Robert Beaser, Arnold Rosner, Michael Horvit, Roy Harris, Samuel Barber and Bohuslav Martinu as well as the solo CD “KUHF Sessions”, the first recording made in Houston Public Radio’s new studio. In addition, Mr. Hester studied extensively with Albert Hirsh and maintains a busy accompanying schedule, also having played master classes for Jean-Pierre Rampal, Pinchas Zukerman, Itzhak Perlman, Carol Wincenc, Richard Stoltzman, Renato Capecchi, Vladimir Spivakov, Ruggiero Ricci and many others. Additionally, he is Chief Artistic Consultant for Rehearsalnet.com, an internet-based business that offers downloadable midi-file accompaniments for training soloists and accompanists in their musical preparation.