Tim Burns

Pianist TIMOTHY BURNS Pianist Timothy Burns is a versatile performer and collaborator, with significant instrumental, vocal, and choral accompanying experience. He holds degrees in piano performance, music theory pedagogy, and collaborative piano from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, studying with Carol Schanely-Cahn, David Allen Wehr, and Jean Barr. Currently, Dr. Burns is a senior instructor at the School of Music, Theatre, and Dance at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, serving as supervisor of piano accompanying and coordinator of keyboard proficiency, and frequently collaborating with faculty, guest artists, and students.

Dr. Burns has performed throughout the United States and Canada. He has served as staff pianist for the 2010 King Award Competition, the 2012 International Viola Congress, the 2013 International Society of Bassists Competition and Conference, the 2017 and 2019 International Horn Competition of America, and the 2019 and 2022 International Keyboard Odyssiad, U.S.A.

Performances include concert tours with saxophonist Peter Sommer, with clarinetist Wesley Ferreira, and as trio member with violinist John Michael Vaida and cellist Theodore Buchholz. As an avid supporter for new and current music, Dr. Burns has performed works by Mari Esabel Valverde, Margaret Brouwer, Mathjis van Dijk, Baljinder Sekhon, and James M. David. Past summer residences have included the New York State Summer School of the Arts Choral Studies Program in Fredonia, New York, the Performing Arts Institute at the Wyoming Seminary near Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, the Eastman School of Music’s “Summer@Eastman” program in Rochester, New York, the Lift Clarinet Academy in Fort Collins, Colorado, and the Just Chamber Music program in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Dr. Burns currently resides in Erie, Colorado with his wife and collaborative pianist, Suyeon Kim, and his five-year old son, Stephen.