Timothy Crane - Biography

Timothy Crane started playing the piano when he was five years old (if you can call it playing -- tc). Since then, playing the piano has been the most enduring part of his life. In a way, he was born into it. Tim learned to play on a piano that was handed down from his great aunt, who accompanied the silent pictures during matinees at the Jayhawk Theater in Topeka, Kansas. The stories about that piano, a 100 year old Knabe, and about his ancestors who played it, kept Tim interested enough to practice when his friends and the weather tempted him to do otherwise (I still play on that piano when I visit my dad -- tc).

Tim playing the
piano bench

Tim, front, center,
in the rock band

Throughout high-school and college, Tim played in a variety of local bands and also as a solo piano player (rock bands significantly decrease your lifespan -- tc) . While living near Aspen, Colorado, he studied music theory while playing each week for his local church. “That was a wonderful time in my life,” he says. “Still,” he jokes, “an awful lot of the songs I played for offerings were pop songs that needed to be sanctified” (more like every one of them, until I learned the hymns -- tc).

In the past several years, Tim has embarked on a new path in his music career -- composing and recording instrumental piano music. Tim recently released his first album, The Other Life I Dream, a collection of piano instrumental pieces with orchestral background. He continues to compose, and has recently completed writing the pieces that will form the core of his second album, Dragonfly (Dragonfly is in production -- let's hope I can finish it a bit quicker than the last one -- tc).

For more information you can reach Timothy Crane or Denise Burrows by calling 303-985-3557.

Timothy Crane

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