Join us to welcome Jim Townsend to the Riverside Stage!

Jim Townsend is a classically trained pianist and composer from Hampshire County, WV.  He studied composition with Dr. Jon Ward Bauman, Dr. John Beall, and Dr. Mark Andrew Cook.  He studied piano with Dr. Christine Kefferstan, Dr. Yu-Hsuan Liao, and Betty Hadidian.  He has also studied harpsichord with Dr. William Haller.  As a composer, he tries to paint the landscape he grew up in with sound.  Jim already has completed over 100 compositions , including 5 piano sonatas, 3 string quartets, 2 symphonies, and 2 piano concerti, and several cycles and small works for piano and chamber ensemble.  Most of his works are spiritually inspired, and incorporate spiritual ideas.  As a pianist, Jim has performed many works, including several of the piano sonatas of Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert, with a focus and specialization on the french contemporary composer Olivier Messiaen.

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This program is presented with financial assistance from the WV Department of Arts, Culture and History, and the National Endowment for the Arts, with approval from the WV Commission on the Arts.