Pianist and organist, Jean Heiden brings
to the TEACHING STUDIO a diverse
experience in practical pedagogy joined
to a depth of musical understanding
acquired during a life of study and
performance.
With three sisters who also pursued
music into adult life, Jean grew up in
the household of a father who might have
been the model for ・The Music Man・:
private teacher of violin, trumpet, and
other instruments, municipal bandmaster,
school orchestra director, choir
director for church and school. As a
teenager, Jean was studio accompanist,
frequently her father's substitute as
piano teacher, accompanist for choirs
and for soloists, and often a ・ringer・
in the band for some instrument in short
supply (e.g. trumpet, flute, baritone,
tuba, saxophone, trombone, French horn).
Each year, her father's summer program
presented an opportunity to study a new
instrument. As a result, today Jean is
an effective clarinet teacher for one of
her grandchildren. Four daughters have
studied piano with her [one becoming a
professional cellist], and now in the
third generation of a musical family
four grandchildren study piano with
Jean.
At Willamette University, she became an
organ student of Josef Schnelker, piano
student of James Cook, and studied
singing with Julio Viamonte. She has
performed in Helmut Rilling's choir at
the Bach Festival in Eugene. As organist
and choir director, she has served
Catholic, Presbyterian, and Episcopal
congregations in Silverton and Coos Bay,
Oregon, and in Hattiesburg,
Mississippi. She has served the Central
Oregon Symphony as pianist, and with
James Cook at the fortepiano, she
performed as harpsichord soloist in the
Haydn Festival's presentation of C.P.E.
Bach's double concerto. In the Heiden
Duo, Jean has appeared throughout the
Northwest with her husband, violinist
Charles Heiden, making a specialty of
the duo sonatas by Mozart, and for organ
and violin, a repertoire of baroque and
modern works. During a sojourn in
Mexico, Jean soloed with the
state-supported Ensamble de Tlaxcala,
performing the concerto for organ and
strings by C.P.E. Bach, showcasing four
of the colonial organs in Tlaxcala.
String students of Charles Heiden have
long been enriched by Jean's collateral
instruction as an accompanist.
Heiden
Music Publications
Dr
Charles Heiden
(formerly Professor of Music, Willamette
University)
email:hmp@heidenmusic.com
tel.
(503) 587-7265
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The
Teaching Studio
Jean and Charles Heiden
Piano - Violin - Viola
4642 19th Ct. S. Salem, Oregon 97302
tel.
(503) 587-7265
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