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Tim Bedner Bio
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Tim Bedner plays seven-string pick and fingerstyle guitar.
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Tim is a member of the guitar faculty at the Carleton
University School of Music in Ottawa.
• He is an instructor at
Alcorn Music Studios, Ottawa's community school of contemporary music, and he
hosts their "Inside the Music" lecture-demo series.
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Tim performs regularly in Ottawa. He offers concerts and workshops, and he has
performed throughout the region, as well as in the United State throughout
Pennsylvania, the Mid-Atlantic region and New England.
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Tim is a former member of the guitar faculty at Pittsburgh's
Duquesne University School of Music and at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe PA.
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He is on the advisory board of Pittsburgh's Guitar
Society of Fine Arts.
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He 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. The organization
also creates opportunities for children studying music to perform for residents
of care facilities.
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In addition to guitar instructional material of his
own, Tim compiled and edited A Common Sense Approach to Improvisation
with Pittsburgh jazz guitar legend Joe Negri.
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He also co-authored The Stage Fright Handbook
with Elise Letourneau.
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He maintains a full private instruction practice
teaching guitar, theory, and improvisation.
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Tim
is
a
multiple-year
honoree
in
Who's
Who
Among
American
Teachers.
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He has shared a stage with artists as diverse as
national fingerstyle champion Pat Donohue (NPR’s A Prairie Home Companion with
Garrison Keillor), 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.
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He received his Master of Music Degree in jazz
performance on a full graduate assistantship at Duquesne University.
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He graduated with highest honors from Berklee College
of Music in
Boston, where he received his undergraduate training.
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He is currently working on a solo CD that will be
released by Peace Café Records.
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Tim Bedner's CV
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