Pianist Timothy Huffman has been a part of the central Ohio music scene for nearly twenty-five years, having performed extensively as recitalist, chamber musician, collaborator, and church musician. Since 1998 Mr. Huffman has been on the music faculty of Otterbein College where he teaches applied and class piano and academic courses in piano pedagogy and literature and music theory. In addition to these duties, he serves as coordinator of class piano instruction and as staff accompanist and is faculty advisor of the newly-formed Otterbein Future Music Teachers Association, a collegiate chapter of MTNA.
Mr. Huffman holds the degrees Bachelor of Music cum laude from Heidelberg College and Master of Music from The Ohio State University, where he is currently completing the Doctor of Musical Arts degree. He has studied with acclaimed pianists Richard Tetley-Kardos, Sylvia Zaremba, and Rosemary Platt and he operated an independent piano teaching studio serving the Columbus metropolitan area for more than twenty years. He formerly served on the faculty of Ohio Dominican University where he taught music appreciation and studio voice, conducted the Concert Choir, and served as Campus Music Minister.
While at Ohio State Mr. Huffman held teaching assistantships in Choral Music accompanying and Class Piano and received departmental honors for his performances of Scriabin's 5th Piano Sonata and Schumann's Piano Quintet in E Flat with the OSU Graduate String Quartet. In the early nineties, Huffman was a Gramma Fischer Fellow at the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria where he studied opera coaching and accompanying and performed on numerous occasions as vocal collaborator and with the AIMS Chorale.
While at AIMS, he studied with pianist Lita Guerra. On his return from Europe, he served as a panelist for collaborative piano at the National Conference on Piano Pedagogy in Chicago. Huffman is well-known in Columbus for his work in liturgical music at the St. Thomas More Newman Center, St Elizabeth Parish, and Our Lady of Victory Parish, Marble Cliff to which he recently returned as Music Director. He is a member of the College Music Society, the Scriabin Society of America, the National Association of Pastoral Musicians, the Music Teachers National Association and the Ohio Music Teachers Association for which he serves on the board of the Central-Eastern District.
In November 2005, Huffman appeared with his duo piano partner Suzanne Newcomb in a performance of Poulenc’s Concerto for 2 Pianos and Orchestra with the Westerville Symphony under the baton of Peter Stafford Wilson. In March, 2006 Huffman will lead music for a Taizé Prayer and Healing Service at the National Association of Catholic Chaplain’s annual conference at the Hyatt Regency in Columbus.
Currently researching the unpublished piano music of American expatriate author and composer Paul Bowles (The Sheltering Sky), Mr. Huffman is organizing a retrospective of Bowles’ music to be performed on two evenings in May 2006 at the Battelle Fine Arts Center on the Otterbein campus. Much of this music has been unheard for decades by the concert-going public and the retrospective will feature a number of local premieres.
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