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Anthony Hernandez
Location:
Columbia
United States 65201
United States 65201
Contact:
www.HernandezPlaysPiano.com
Additional Info:
Anthony Hernandez (b. 1987) is a collaborative pianist, organist, composer, and teacher who earned his Bachelor of Music in Music Composition from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2009. He has worked as music director, rehearsal accompanist, assistant music director, and/or pit keyboardist for over twenty musical productions with numerous production companies. He has performed extensively as a collaborative and solo pianist throughout Missouri, the Midwest, Southern California, throughout South America and in Italy. As a composer, he premiered orchestral works with the Columbia Civic Orchestra and the 9th Street Philharmonic Orchestra and continues to compose. Hernandez was a regular on-staff collaborative pianist for Stephens College of the Performing Arts and Columbia College of Missouri. He served as pianist and organist at First Church of Christ, Scientist of Columbia from 2012 to 2018, and at Missouri United Methodist Church from 2008 to 2018.In the summer of 2018, Hernandez moved to Los Angeles, CA, where he was a piano and beginning violin instructor at Sunset Learning Studio in Manhattan Beach. He provided service music for the Twentieth Church of Christ, Scientist in Venice on Sunday mornings and was a piano accompanist for the Culver City Middle School choirs, and was a regular ballet pianist at the Pasadena Dance Theatre. He occasionally filled in as ballet accompanist at California Institute for the Arts, and worked breifly as accompanist for the Norwalk-La Mirada Unified School District's John Glenn High School and Nettie L. Waite Middle School choirs, as well as sang Tenor 2 in the Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles.
Having returned to his alma mater and studying piano with Dr. Peter Miyamoto, Mr. Hernandez pursued and recently completed his graduate studies from Mizzou with a Master’s Degree in Collaborative Piano in May 2023.
In May 2023, as one of the two pianists for Mizzou's New Music Ensemble, he toured South America, specifically Bogota, Colombia; Cordoba, Argentina; Bariloche, Argentina; and Buenos Aires, Argentina; presenting and premiering contemporary classical compositions of Latin American composer's. In July 2023, Mr. Hernandez participated in the Orfeo Music Festival in Vipiteno, Italy, where he received piano and composition guidance with Faina Lushtak. Remaining a resident of Columbia, MO, Mr. Hernandez provides piano accompaniment for all level ballet classes at the Columbia Performing Arts Center, returning after playing for their summer intensive programs from 2015 to 2018. Throughout his career and onward, he will strive to continue growing as a pianist, collaborator, educator, composer, and musician.
www.HernandezPlaysPiano.com
Fees
$ 50.00 Dollars Per HourInstruments
Piano, Organ, Harpsichord, Electronic KeyboardSpecialisms
Contemporary Music, Jazz, Improvisation, Instrumental Accompaniment, Vocal Accompaniment, Musical Theatre, Musical Direction, Ballet Accompaniment, Vocal CoachingWhy not...
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