An exciting and rare evening of two accomplished keyboardists at Max’s of Burlingame – Burlingame, CA

Maxs of Burlingame – Bay Area’s Iconic Restaurant and Bar– for reservations and more info.

DENNY BERTHIAUME – Bay Area Pianist

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A night of Jazz – Denny Berthiaume Piano and Guest Artist
Step out for a night of Jazz with Bay Area Jazz Pianist and Composer Denny Berthiaume. Different special guest artists join Denny.

Pianist Denny Berthiaume has performed with Bobby McFerrin, Diane Schuur, Helen Forrest, Mundell Lowe, Gary Foster, Joe Williams, Rosemary Clooney, Bob Crosby, the Mills Brothers, the Ink Spots, and Ed Thigpen. He recorded 4 albums as co-leader of the successful fusion group Solar Plexus.

He has appeared at the Monterey Jazz Festival, Russian River Jazz Festival, San Jose Jazz Festival, and San Miguel de Allende International Jazz Festival.

At the age of 5, Denny began his life long love of the piano and all things related to music. His father, a musician, teacher and composer saw to it that young Dennis was exposed to the early romantic sounds of Bach and Chopin. As well as the great American composers, Bernstein, Gershwin, Kern. The teen years brought included classical recitals but after exposure to Bruback, Previn, Miles and Monk, jazz took over. When a friend turned him on to fats Domino and Little Richard, the element of blues was added to his enthusiasm for creating his own sound.

D. Berthiaume profile pictures by Varda Lazar.

Terrigal Burn

I started playing classical piano when I was 6. In early adolescence I switched from playing classical to jazz, influenced by a hip cousin and a family friend who had a great jazz collection. For most of my life, I’ve played and performed jazz as much as a busy life as a physician, father, and husband permitted. I retired from my internal medicine practice at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation at the beginning of 2022. In retirement, I’m making music a bigger part of my life.

Over the years, I’ve had the privilege of studying with Charlie Mariano, Ray Santisi, Conrad Herwig, George Cables, Jeff Hamilton, Terrell Stafford, Wycliffe Gordon, Geoffrey Keezer, Don Haas, Anton Schwartz, Smith Dobson, and Peter Horvath.

I perform in a variety of venues, both jazz and Brazilian repertoires, as a soloist and in small groups.

I believe in the healing power of music, and so I also perform for groups who can’t easily get to performance spaces-people confined to hospitals, nursing homes, and senior living centers. Some of this work is as a volunteer musician with the Bay Area’s Bread and Roses.

I also donate music to do good, by performing in support of organizations seeking to improve our communities or the world. I’ve undertaken fundraising concerts for:

2nd Harvest

Vote Riders

Project JumpStart

3rd Act (focusing on climate change)

The Center for Reproductive Rights

Giffords (working on gun control)

I’ve recorded 3 CDs of solo piano:

A Controlled Burn

Cabin in the Woods

Skipping Songs and Sentimental Journeys