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Entrepreneurship

“I define music entrepreneurship as the

ability to create and sustain a viable

career in the music industry.”

Jill Timmons — DMA, MMus, BMus.

Dr. Jill Timmons taught piano at Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon from 1981-2012. During her tenure, she was a professor of music and Artist in Residence. As a pianist, Timmons has performed at numerous venues, including Carnegie Recital Hall. Timmons collaborated with Jim Walls at Classic Pianos in Portland during the years he was Founder & Artistic Director of the Classics & Croissants™ Concert and Master Class Series; as well as engaging Jim as marketing consultant for her “Musicians Journey” book tour presentations in Anchorage, Alaska and Denver, Colorado.

The Musician’s Journey: Crafting Your Career Vision and Plan (2013 Oxford University Press)

The Art of Piano Teaching: Business and Calling

“When I started at MTNA in 1996, you couldn't utter the word business. It was a calling. Today the word is „entrepreneur.‟

Being an entrepreneur is the wave of the future for music teaching.”

As an active member of Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) and Oregon Music Teachers Association (OMTA), Walls stays current through continuing education opportunities for improved teaching and piano performance; thus, passing his experiences on to his students.

By attending MTNA and OMTA national and state-wide conventions (Chicago, Illinois; Las Vegas, Nevada; Anaheim, California; San Antonio, Texas; as well as Bend and Newport, Oregon,) Jim Walls has attended master classes, technology and informational sessions, as well as pedagogy sessions, from some of the world‟s most respected pianists and master teachers: (Partial list includes)

Byron Janis, Leon Fleisher, Menahem Pressler, Sara Davis Buechner, Eric Himy, Scott Mc Bride Smith, Jane Smisor Bastien, Jeremy Siskind, Christopher Norton, Valentina Lisitsa, Marc-André Hamlin, Andreas Klein, Robert Hebble, Peter Mack, Jon Nakamatsu, Emanuel Ax, Shelton Berg, Hans Boepple,Seymour Bernstein, William Bolcom, Jeremy Denk, Stuart Isacoff, Dennis Alexander, Thomas Otten, Jon Kimura Parker, Lenore Raphael, Frederic Chiu, Inna Faliks, Jerome Rose, Abbey Simon, Jill Timmons, Ingrid Clarfield, and several others.

Jim Walls has been active in the Music Industry since college. His career, spanning more than five decades, has been divided between executive marketing, concert management, teaching, and piano performance.

Photos Below:

Walls in New York, 1974, as president of the Rodgers Organ Company.

Accepting the “Marketing Firm of the Year Award” from Oregon Gov. Tom McCall.

Five Manual Rodgers Organ, Carnegie Hall, 1974, where Walls attended to kick off the Albert Schweitzer Memorial Organ Series played by VIRGIL FOX. The concert series was the creative genius of Richard Torrence and Marshall Yaeger of New York.

Torrence was one of America’s leading concert management organizations of organ, piano, and ensemble artists. Dedicated to music, the arts, marketing, public relations, promotion, and fund-raising, the name Richard Torrence has been listed in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who In Finance and Industry, and Who’s Who in the Performing Arts