Saturday, Nov. 20 @ 1-5pm

Elementary begins at: 1:00

Early intermediate begins at: 2:45

Upper Intermediate begins at: 4:15

Sunday, Nov. 21 @ 2-6pm

Advanced A (Baroque/Classical) begins at: 2pm

Advanced B (Romantic/Contemporary) begins at: 4pm

Judges: Dr. Jeffrey Gilliam & Dr. Renato Fabbro

Location: Gospel Outreach Church (South Bay Road), Auditorium

Biographies:

Renato Fabbro

Pianist Renato Fabbro was awarded the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Rice University. He studied with Larry Graham, Angela Cheng and John Perry and won the Adeline Rosenberg Memorial First Prize at the Fort Collins Symphony National Young Artist Competition, as well as first prize in the Grand Junction Symphony National Young Artist Competition. Frequently in demand as an adjudicator, he has judged the Chopin Northwest, Seattle Steinway, MTNA, Portland Young Pianist, Silver State, Spokane, Vancouver Kiwanis, Washington Outstanding Artist, Russian Chamber Music Foundation of Seattle, Musicfest Northwest, and Texas Music Teachers Association Performance Competitions. His students have won top prizes in many competitions, including three MTNA national finalists, one of whom won Third Prize in the Junior Piano Performance Competition national finals, and first prizes in the Mondavi Center National Young Artist Competition, National Federation of Music Clubs Stillman Kelley Award, and multiple first prizes in the Coeur d'Alene Symphony National Young Artist Competition, Vancouver Symphony Young Artists Competition, and Steinway & Sons Piano Competition, to name a few. Dr. Fabbro was a piano professor at the University of Portland for twelve years and is a member of the artistic advisory panel for the Pacific International Piano Competition, Bellevue Symphony, and Pacific Northwest Piano Competition. As part of the Martingale Ensemble, he recorded music of Claude Debussy and Gustav Mahler with members of the Oregon Symphony on the MSR Classics label. His students have also been accepted into top piano performance degree programs, including the Eastman School of Music, Indiana University, Peabody Conservatory, Cleveland Institute of Music, Manhattan School of Music and Rice University Shepherd School of Music.

Jeffrey Gilliam

Prior to joining the piano faculty at Western Washington University in 1992, Jeffrey Gilliam taught at The Juilliard School; The University of Michigan School of Music; and at The International Menuhin Music Academy in Gstaad, Switzerland. He has performed and taught all over the world, including guest university teaching positions in Thailand and South Africa, as well as receiving two Fulbright awards. He has recorded with violinists Yehudi Menuhin, Alberto Lysy, and Ruggerio Ricci for the EMI, Dinemec Classics, and Opus 111 labels. Originally from Akron, Ohio, Jeffrey Gilliam studied piano with Cécile Genhart at The Eastman School of Music, and with Theodore Lettvin at The University of Michigan. He also studied collaborative piano with Martin Katz and Margo Garrett. 

In addition to teaching piano and collaborative piano at Western Washington University in Bellingham, he is Artistic Director of Western’s Sanford-Hill Piano Series. In 2015 he established his own endowed four-year piano scholarship: the Jeffrey Gilliam Piano  Scholarship Endowment Fund. His students have gone on to distinguished piano performance programs at Stony Brook, New England Conservatory, Rice University, Manhattan School,and Eastman.