Tim Pinelli - Piano

IN-PERSON

As a member of our piano faculty, pianist Tim Pinelli brings over three decades of experience to Opus. His pursuit of both piano performance and pedagogy began under the tutorship of Karen England in 1991. After eleven years with Mrs. England, he studied for over a decade with some of Maryland's most distinguished pedagogues, among them Dr. Michael Adcock, Dr. Tatiana Reitman Mann, Dr. Hsiu-Hui Wang, Dr. David Kreider, and Dr. Audrey Andrist as a student at UMBC. He is currently a candidate for the Associated Board of the Royal School of Music's FRSM diploma in piano performance. In 2019, Mr. Pinelli received the Music Institute's Bravo Award which bestowed a grant for his diploma.

Mr. Pinelli made his professional performance debut in the late '90s and has been active ever since, most recently as a member of the Opus Chamber Collective. 

As an instructor, Mr. Pinelli has been an efficient and successful mentor for all ages and levels with a philosophy that emphasizes a strong foundation in music history and theory in addition to repertoire and technique. Among his students have been future piano and music majors, competition prize winners, scholarship recipients, and successful candidates of piano and theory exams. He has been a member of the Opus faculty since 2016. Additionally, he has served on the juries of numerous piano competitions, and two tours as the consulting editor of the John Bresnik Jazz Piano Method.

In addition to his music education, Mr. Pinelli completed a Master of Science degree in Applied Mathematics from the Johns Hopkins University's Whiting School of Engineering in 2018 under advisor Stacy Hill. His focus was probability theory and stochastic processes, and among his research was the construction of a robust model of optimal oboe reed construction in collaboration with Dr. Mark Runkles. Prior to this, he earned a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from UMBC, with a concentration in actuarial mathematics. 

Mr. Pinelli resides in Sykesville, MD.