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City: Tempe, AZ
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BiographyJoshua Hillmann has entertained audiences for years as both a solo
and collaborative artist with his energetic and colorful musical
interpretations and outstanding technical ability. He began his studies at the
age of 12 and within a year and a half was awarded First Place in his first
local piano competition. Joshua has been the recipient of numerous awards in national and international competitions. Most recently he was awarded the special prize from the National Society for Arts and Letters for the “Most Ouststanding Arizona Pianist” in the 4th Bösendorfer USASU International Piano Competition in Tempe, AZ, and was awarded 1st Place in October 2006 at the 1st WPPC PIANOvision Most Wanted Piano Competition: Etude Invitational in Atlanta, GA, was an Alternate Winner of Arizona State University's Concert of Soloists Piano Concerto Competition in 2005 in Tempe, AZ, was Winner of the 2003 Kansas City Musical Club Collegiate Piano Competition in Kansas City, MO, and was awarded 1st Place in the Kansas Music Teachers Association Collegiate Piano Competition in 2002 in Kansas City, MO, and also 1st Runner Up in 2001. He has also performed in master classes with Anne Schein, Robert Hamilton, Hugh Sung, Philip Kawin and Arbo Valdma among others. He has performed solo recitals in St. Louis, Kansas City, and Phoenix, and has performed as solo and collaborative artist in S. Korea with the Kansas City Chorale, and in the USA with the University of Kansas Symphony Orchestra and Wind Ensemble, and the Arizona State University Sinfonietta. A member of the Music Teacher's National Association, Joshua has been teaching
private and group piano for several years and has taught class piano at Arizona
State University as a graduate teaching assistant. Currently he is teaching
privately with Prestige Music Academy in Phoenix, AZ. He has also been a member and/or director of several recording and touring vocal ensembles including His Presence (a high-school a cappella group that recorded 2 CD's and toured continental United States and Canada); he was a member of KU Jazz Singers and Chamber Choir; he was Music Director, bass singer and recording engineer/producer of the student a cappella group Genuine Imitation from the University of Kansas; he was a bass singer in the Grammy Award winning Kansas City Chorale, and the vocal jazz octet at ASU called the Herberger Singers. He is currently a bass singer in the Grammy Award winning Phoenix Chorale (Arizona's only professional choir), the ASU Symphonic Chorale and vocal jazz group Heatwave, as a bass soloist with the Arizona Bach Festival and is also a staff bass soloist at Church of the Beatitudes in Phoenix. |