PIANIST

Jill Timmons has performed internationally as both a solo pianist and ensemble artist, combining concert and recording projects with work as an international performing arts consultant.

Offering performances and teaching on three continents, she has appeared in such venues as Carnegie Recital Hall, Merkin Hall, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Dame Myra Hess Series in Chicago, the American Consulate in Hamburg, the Bösendorfer Hall in Vienna, Catholic University in Santiago, Chile, and colleges and universities throughout the United States. Timmons has toured throughout Germany, Switzerland, Austria, France, Spain, and Chile, and has performed under the auspices of the National Endowment for the Arts along with National Public Radio. Her professional training as a pianist has been with György Sebök, Béla Bösörményi-Nagy, and Randolph Hokanson.

Jill Timmons, Pianist
Photo by RJ Studio

Committed to American composers, through a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, Timmons recorded The Complete Piano Works of William Bergsma (Laurel Records). Additionally, her discography includes Chamber Music of Dexter Morrill (Capstone Records), and Amy Beach: Music for Violin/Viola and Piano (Centaur Records) both with Laura Klugherz. With Judith Cohen, she recorded In Tandem, Music for Two Pianos and In Tandem Two (Capstone Records). Ken Burns chose music from the Amy Beach recording for the soundtrack to his PBS documentary, The War.

Timmons has performed with orchestras throughout the U.S. including the Oregon Symphony, Syracuse Symphony, Newport Symphony, Central Oregon Symphony, Springfield (Illinois) Orchestra, Festival Orchestra of the Oregon Coast Music Festival, among others. As a frequent guest artist, Timmons has appeared in such summer festivals as Tanglewood, Chenango Musikfest in New York, the Olympic Music Festival, the Oregon Coast Music Festival, and in France, Festillésime and Festival Mozart. In France, she has been artistic director for Musique à Beaumont, and is a member artist through Perspectives Musicales in Paris.

Currently, Timmons is the Artist/Teacher Affiliate with Classic Pianos at their flagship store in Portland, Oregon and their eight stores nationwide. Serving as a consultant to the Yamaha Corporation of America, she regularly assists individuals and organizations in the successful development of their musical and educational endeavors.

Timmons is professor emerita at Linfield University and holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Washington and the Master of Music degree from Boston University. In 2021-2022, she was awarded a Visiting Fellowship at Yale University.

Timmons’ recordings are available on Pandora, Tidal, Spotify, YouTube and Amazon.

Performance Reviews

“She is a sensitive musician…Her playing is graceful, lyrical, detailed and intimate.”
Tim Page, The New York Times
“Timmons soars with the eagles. She plays with vitality and élan.”
Fanfare Magazine
“A fitting memorial to Bergsma’s enduring affection for the piano. Crisp, lively and colorful playing.”
Melinda Bargreen, The Seattle Times
“There was great sensitivity and elegance in their interpretation of some of the well-known standards for two pianos. Both artists [Jill Timmons and Bernard Job] played with complicity and subtlety in their glances and their touch, giving the impression of a duo with a long career behind them. One of the highlights was their superb rendition of Camille Saint-Saëns’ Variations on a Theme by Beethoven.
La Nouvelle République, Cour-Cheverny, France
“In Timmons’ hands, all the colors Liszt splashed through his piano writing were there in full rainbow strength. Gorgeously controlled with passionate technique…”
The Oregonian
“Exceptional brilliance. Sensitive and convincingly clear in her musical statement.”
Neue Tiroler Zeitung, Innsbruck, Austria
“Timmons’ virtuosity and emotion give her performance a special quality. Quality, not incidentally, is the keynote of a Timmons’ performance.”
The Wickenburg Sun, Wickenburg, Arizona
“The decisiveness of the bow [Laura Klugherz] and vitality of the keyboard were memorable. The performers made a grand display of technique and wonderful sound.”
El Mercurio, Santiago, Chile
“These artists [Timmons and Cohen] convey the joy and beauty of the music with accuracy and vigor, if not the last degree of spit-and-polish precision.”
Fanfare Magazine
“The Cohen/Timmons Duo captures a great sense of wit and effervescence, as well as remarkable unity in this fetching CD [In Tandem].
Melinda Bargreen, The Seattle Times
“She is a sensitive musician…Her playing is graceful, lyrical, detailed and intimate.”
Tim Page, The New York Times
“Timmons soars with the eagles. She plays with vitality and élan.”
Fanfare Magazine
“A fitting memorial to Bergsma’s enduring affection for the piano. Crisp, lively and colorful playing.”
Melinda Bargreen, The Seattle Times
“There was great sensitivity and elegance in their interpretation of some of the well-known standards for two pianos. Both artists [Jill Timmons and Bernard Job] played with complicity and subtlety in their glances and their touch, giving the impression of a duo with a long career behind them. One of the highlights was their superb rendition of Camille Saint-Saëns’ Variations on a Theme by Beethoven.
La Nouvelle République, Cour-Cheverny, France
“In Timmons’ hands, all the colors Liszt splashed through his piano writing were there in full rainbow strength. Gorgeously controlled with passionate technique…”
The Oregonian
“Exceptional brilliance. Sensitive and convincingly clear in her musical statement.”
Neue Tiroler Zeitung, Innsbruck, Austria
“Timmons’ virtuosity and emotion give her performance a special quality. Quality, not incidentally, is the keynote of a Timmons’ performance.”
The Wickenburg Sun, Wickenburg, Arizona
“The decisiveness of the bow [Laura Klugherz] and vitality of the keyboard were memorable. The performers made a grand display of technique and wonderful sound.”
El Mercurio, Santiago, Chile
“These artists [Timmons and Cohen] convey the joy and beauty of the music with accuracy and vigor, if not the last degree of spit-and-polish precision.”
Fanfare Magazine
“The Cohen/Timmons Duo captures a great sense of wit and effervescence, as well as remarkable unity in this fetching CD [In Tandem].
Melinda Bargreen, The Seattle Times