Stephen Fandrich

Stephen Fandrich is an artist with a unique perspective. Though he has been surrounded by the piano all his life as part of a family of piano innovators, his interest in music developed at about the age of thirteen. He began learning music at the piano by ear from recordings and by rote from his father Darrell Fandrich, a gifted pianist and renowned piano technician. Fandrich attended Cornish College of the Arts as a jazz pianist under Randy Halberstadt, as a classical pianist under Peter Mack and finished with a degree in music composition under Jarrad Powell. Though Fandrich has made a name for himself as a piano oloist, improvisor and composer as a member of the Monktail Creative Music Concern (monktail.com), he as also become known as a vocalist and overtone singer. His voice has brought him all around the Puget sound area and the Northwest, to New York, Hawaii, Canada, Central Java and Bali. Fandrich has dedicated much of his study, composing skill and performances evolution of his voice as a member of Gamalan Pacifica (A traditional Indonesian gong/chime percussion orchestra with a rich tradition of vocal music), the Waterman/Fandrich collaborations in music and poetry and as founder and director of the Seattle harmonic.