Stephen Fandrich is a piano soloist, composer, builder of instruments and creator of interactive sound installation. The piano and piano prepared with various sound altering additions to the strings, combined with a physically modeled Fender Rhodes, will showcase his piano playing, improvisational talents and gifts for instrument making and sound design. Fandrich’s Improvisations are long in form, erase time and expectation, are dramatic to delicate, quiet and transcendent.
Stephen Fandrich has been a resident performing artist of Seattle for 35 years, and is strongly influenced by the music of Asia, particularly Russia, Tyva (Tuva) and Indonesia. Classical piano, jazz piano, prepared piano, gamelan, throat singing, just-intonation, tuning, instrument building, sound-based installation, composition, and improvisation are all current passions.