Pianist Timothy Hester graduated from The Juilliard School as a student of the renowned pedagogue Adele Marcus. Mr. Hester is the Edythe Bates Old Professor of Piano at the Moores School of Music at the University of Houston, where he enjoys teaching students sight-reading skills, collaborative techniques, and also serves as the Director of Keyboard Collaborative Arts. Named Collegiate Teacher of the Year (2014) by the Texas Music Teachers Association, Mr. Hester works with many vocalists in the Houston area, has taught Opera Studies at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, and has served on the faculty of the Houston Grand Opera Studio.

Mr. Hester has performed worldwide in venues across Great Britain, France, Italy, China, the Netherlands, Mexico, Greece, Canada, Japan, Singapore, and Taiwan. He was a regular faculty member at the Schlern International Music Festival in northern Italy. In the United States, he has performed in the NYC Bargemusic Series, the Ojai Festival in California, the Park City International Chamber Music Festival in Utah, the Texas Music Festival, and the OK Mozart Festival in Oklahoma, in addition to performing with Da Camera, a Houston-based chamber music ensemble.

He has particularly enjoyed collaborating with artists such as Fredell Lack, Paula Robison, Patricia Racette, Ransom Wilson, Christiaan Bor, Nathaniel Rosen, Arturo Delmoni, Nina Beilina, William Sharp, Eugenia Zukerman, Leon Speirer, Robert White, Mary Jane Johnson, Chi Liming, Carmen Pelton, Uri Pianka, Phyllis Pancella, Stefano Algieri, Lucy Shelton, Karol Bennett, Isabelle Ganz, Mitchell Stern, Paul Neubauer, Patrick Wroblewski, Joan Gibbons, and Reiko Watanabe, as well as his esteemed colleagues at the University of Houston.

Mr. Hester’s discography includes 20th-century works by Robert Beaser, Arnold Rosner, Michael Horvit, Roy Harris, Samuel Barber, and Bohuslav Martinů, as well as the solo CD KUHF Sessions, the first recording made in the new Houston Public Radio studio. Additionally, Mr. Hester studied extensively with Albert Hirsh and maintains a busy accompaniment schedule, having played masterclasses for Jean-Pierre Rampal, Pinchas Zukerman, Itzhak Perlman, Carol Wincenc, Richard Stoltzman, Elena Nikolaidi, Renato Capecchi, Vladimir Spivakov, Ruggiero Ricci, and many others.