Kerry Baham
Music Program Director/Instructor - Piano

	Office: Wise Cultural Arts - Studio 5 Office Hours: Weekdays TBA Phone: 903-510-2506 FAX: 903-510-2800 E-mail: kbah@tjc.edu

Franz Liszt-Transcendental Etude, No.10 in f minor
(5.35 MB mp3 file, sounds best with broadband)

Mr. Kerry Baham joined the Tyler Junior College music faculty in 1997. He currently instructs sophomore theory, music literature, class piano, private lessons in piano, accompanying, and serves as the accompanist for the A cappella Choir.

As a Teaching Fellow, Baham received his master’s degree in piano performance from the University of North Texas. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in the same from Southeastern Louisiana University. Additionally, he received a scholarship to study in Vienna and Salzburg through the University of Miami’s program at Salzburg, Austria. His teachers have included David Evenson, Jack Roberts, Nicola Frisardi, Joseph Banowetz, and Harold Heiberg.

Mr. Baham has been awarded top prizes in solo competitions on state, regional, and national levels. Among these are the Collegiate Artist and Wideman International Piano Competitions. In addition to performance awards, Mr. Baham has also garnered academic awards, among which is his being named a Doctoral Scholar at the University of North Texas. An active accompanist as well as soloist, Mr. Baham has collaborated with winners of the Metropolitan Opera Auditions in concerts in the United States as well as Europe.

He has been featured as guest artist with the New Orleans Junior Philharmonic and Monroe, Louisiana Symphonies and with the Jackson, Mississippi Symphony. Baham’s playing can be heard as an artist on the Eroica label, where he is involved in recording the complete Mozart piano sonatas. His professional affiliations include the Texas Music Teachers’ Association, the Music Teachers’ National Association, and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia.

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