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-50%25.JPG) Tim
Bedner plays 7-string
fingerstyle guitar.
Formerly a member of the
guitar faculty at
Pittsburgh’s Duquesne University School of Music and at Saint Vincent College in
Latrobe PA, he received his Master of
Music Degree in jazz performance on a full graduate assistantship at Duquesne.
He graduated with highest honors from
Berklee College of Music, Boston’s
prestigious jazz school, where he received his undergraduate training.
In
addition to guitar
instructional material of his own, Tim has compiled and
edited A Common Sense Approach to Improvisation with Pittsburgh jazz
guitar legend Joe Negri,
published by Mel Bay. He also co-wrote The Stage Fright Handbook with
Elise Letourneau.
Tim is a
multiple-year honoree
in Who's Who Among American Teachers. He is on the
advisory board
of Pittsburgh’s Guitar Society of Fine Arts. Tim is the
president
of Grace Notes, a service organization that brings one-on-one music performances
to the terminally ill and dying, concerts to under-funded public schools, and
brings music to groups of people who cannot attend concerts without physical
difficulty. Grace Notes also creates opportunities for young people studying
music to perform for residents of care facilities.
Tim has
performed
throughout the Mid-Atlantic region, New England, and Ontario. He has
shared a stage with artists as
diverse as national fingerstyle champion
Pat Donohue (NPR’s A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor), saxophonist
Oliver Lake, drummer Roger Humphries, performance-poet Huang Xiang, Broadway
diva Bernadette Peters, flamenco
guitarist Marija Temo, bluesman Ernie Hawkins, fusion band Spyrogyra, and
members of The Fringe and the New York Voices. He was also the
pre-show entertainment
for Ricardo Cobo, The Romeros, and Toni Tenille.
He is currently working on
a solo CD
that will be released by Peace Café Records.
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