Vitæ
Born 1968 in La Jolla, California. First piano instruction at Royal Conservatory, Toronto, Canada 1975.
Music studies (piano, organ, composition) in USA, France and Germany.
Piano studies under: Conrad Hansen (privately, Hamburg), Caio Pagano (Arizona State Univ.), Gregor Weichert (Hochschule f. Musik, Münster, NRW)
Most memorable experience during studies: private instruction 1988 with Mâitre Jean Langlais (1907-1991) in Paris.
Living in Berlin since 2006.
Concertizing, composing and teaching in Berlin and throughout Germany and internationally.
2010 Premiered own new piano suite ("Suite Pagano") at Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
2011 Premiered (Berlin) own new piano work entitled "Gee, Dr. – Reminiscence of a Hymn" (an aural examination of a major third row extracted from the Hanns Eisler anthem of East Germany, the GDR (hence, the title))
Timothy Michael Thorson, Piano
Biography
Vitæ
Born 1968 in La Jolla, California. First piano instruction at Royal Conservatory, Toronto, Canada 1975.
Music studies (piano, organ, composition) in USA, France and Germany.
Piano studies under: Conrad Hansen (privately, Hamburg), Caio Pagano (Arizona State Univ.), Gregor Weichert (Hochschule f. Musik, Münster, NRW)
Most memorable experience during studies: private instruction 1988 with Mâitre Jean Langlais (1907-1991) in Paris.
Living in Berlin since 2006.
Concertizing, composing and teaching in Berlin and throughout Germany and internationally.
2010 Premiered own new piano suite ("Suite Pagano") at Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
2011 Premiered (Berlin) own new piano work entitled "Gee, Dr. – Reminiscence of a Hymn" (an aural examination of a major third row extracted from the Hanns Eisler anthem of East Germany, the GDR (hence, the title))