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The Aptos Keyboard Series
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Tyler Hayford
03/15/2020
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Tyler Hayford is an emerging young pianist, performer, and avid photographer, hailed by the press as “one of those young epitomes of brilliance and early success.” He received a BM in Piano Performance and Musical Arts from the Eastman School of Music in 2019.
In 2014, Tyler won the 28th Annual Celia Mendez Young Pianist’s Beethoven Competition, the Pacific Musical Society Piano Competition, and was inducted into the MTAC Young Artist Guild. He also had the opportunity to raise $2500 in relief funds for victims of Typhoon Haiyan through a solo benefit recital, which was telecast and achieved critical acclaim. Subsequently, he was a guest artist at the Bear Valley Music Festival, a featured artist in the Santa Cruz Baroque Festival’s “Emerging Artists” concert series, and has continued to perform solo recitals throughout California every year since. In his early years, Tyler won first place awards from Santa Cruz MTAC, the US Open Music Competition, and the Santa Cruz Baroque Festival Youth Chamber Music Competitions. He first appeared at the Carmel Bach Festival at the age of 10, and as a result of winning the concerto competition at the Santa Cruz Youth Symphony, Tyler made his concerto debut with them at the age of 14. Beyond his studies at Eastman, Tyler has received scholarships to attend the Meadowmount School of Music, the Colburn Academy Piano Festival, California Summer Music, and the Bowdoin International Music Festival. He was also the recipient from 2017-2018 of an $8,000 Nadenstedt YAG College Music Study Scholarship. Before working under the tutelage of Professor Douglas Humpherys at the Eastman School of Music, Tyler previously studied piano with Hans Boepple, and piano and organ with Vlada Volkova Moran. He served as the organist of Messiah Lutheran Church in Santa Cruz from 2013-2015, and at Penn Yan First Baptist Church from 2018-2019. |
Program: 250 Years of Beethoven: Solo concert featuring four Beethoven piano sonatas: Op. 10 no. 3, Op. 53, Op. 101, and Op. 110. |
125 Canterbury Dr., Aptos CA
Sundays at 3:00 pm
Tickets are available at the door for $25
This donation goes to the artist and towards maintaining a concert ready instrument. For further ticket information please call Artistic Director Josef Sekon: 831-685-9169 or email
Sundays at 3:00 pm
Tickets are available at the door for $25
This donation goes to the artist and towards maintaining a concert ready instrument. For further ticket information please call Artistic Director Josef Sekon: 831-685-9169 or email
About the Aptos Keyboard Series at St. John's
Our Mission: to promote gifted young pianists and offer them the opportunity to perform in a concert setting.
Our History: Artistic Director Josef Sekon, longtime music teacher at Cabrillo College, hosted concerts in his home and other local venues for the past several years. Several St. John's parishioners actively supported this artistic venture in various ways, from hosting musicians to providing financial support, and, of course, serving as a loyal audience. So when the concert series began to outgrow a "house concert" size, St. John's was a logical place to look for a new home. To begin, a parish member has loaned the church a Steinway piano to do justice to the level of the musicianship being shared.
St. John's is delighted to partner with Josef Sekon in presenting the Aptos Keyboard Series, henceforth to be known as "The Aptos Keyboard Series at St. John's." It is our hope that we can expand the opportunity from a house concert with an audience of 35 to our larger venue as St. John's, with our wonderful acoustics. And we hope to maintain the intimate atmosphere of a “Salon Setting” for upcoming concerts.
If you love listening to world class piano music in a relaxed setting please come to this series of Sunday afternoon concerts. We are delighted to accept financial support to help promote these young guest artists in our own community.
- features International World-Class Pianists
- co-presented by Josef Sekon, artistic director, & the Episcopal Church of St. John the Baptist
Our Mission: to promote gifted young pianists and offer them the opportunity to perform in a concert setting.
Our History: Artistic Director Josef Sekon, longtime music teacher at Cabrillo College, hosted concerts in his home and other local venues for the past several years. Several St. John's parishioners actively supported this artistic venture in various ways, from hosting musicians to providing financial support, and, of course, serving as a loyal audience. So when the concert series began to outgrow a "house concert" size, St. John's was a logical place to look for a new home. To begin, a parish member has loaned the church a Steinway piano to do justice to the level of the musicianship being shared.
St. John's is delighted to partner with Josef Sekon in presenting the Aptos Keyboard Series, henceforth to be known as "The Aptos Keyboard Series at St. John's." It is our hope that we can expand the opportunity from a house concert with an audience of 35 to our larger venue as St. John's, with our wonderful acoustics. And we hope to maintain the intimate atmosphere of a “Salon Setting” for upcoming concerts.
If you love listening to world class piano music in a relaxed setting please come to this series of Sunday afternoon concerts. We are delighted to accept financial support to help promote these young guest artists in our own community.