Jim Hendricks

Pianist Jim Hendricks grabbed the attention of musicians and family members as a child with the uncanny ability to play anything he heard on records and memorize the printed music that came across the family’s piano. While still in grammar school, Jim was able to transcribe by ear complex harmonies and melodies without the use of a piano. He continued intensive musical studies and was considered a professional as a teenager. After high school, Jim performed with such legends as Dave Brubeck (piano duet), Della Reese, Rita Moreno, Tito Puente, Maynard Ferguson, Jack Jones, Louie Bellson, Clark Terry, Arturo Sandoval, John Davidson, Jon Faddis, and many others. He also competed in several international piano competitions, was a featured orchestral soloist performing the piano music of Rachmaninoff, and was granted a music professorship by the age of twenty-five. Since then, Jim has performed approximately 1,400 piano concerts across the US, Europe, Japan, the Cayman Islands, Central America, Jamaica and Canada, including several appearances at the former Crystal Cathedral. He has made sixteen piano albums along with numerous singles and EP's, performed on ABC, CBS, TBN and PAX, authored the books Contemporary Arrangements for Today’s Church Pianist and Piano Mirrors (release TBD), and been featured in Clavier piano journal. Jim also enjoys writing fiction and poetry, golfing, studying finance and economics, and composing contemporary classical and jazz music.