Andrew Wedman, RPT

I am the head piano technician at the UBC School of Music and the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts located in Vancouver BC.

Prior to this position I ran my own piano tuning and repair business in the Okanagan and the Kootenays since 2010.

I received my Piano Technology Certificate at the University of Western Ontario in 2009. I did an apprenticeship under Nikolai Svinarenko at Paul Hahn & Co. in Toronto, tuning and rebuilding pianos. I am also a Registered Piano Technician through the Piano Technicians Guild.

I have my ARCT  through the Royal Conservatory of Music in piano performance and studied piano and Music Theory at Capilano College (now University) and McGill University. I am an active musician who has performed and recorded experimental and electronic music in Canada, the US and Europe since 1999.

I tune by ear with the aid of an electronic tuning device as a tool for setting the pitch (A440) and large pitch corrections. I am trained and have experience in full piano restoration and rebuilding.

In the past I have tuned for:

The Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, Vancouver; UBC School of Music, Vancouver; Robert and Ellen Silverman Piano Concerto Competition, Vancouver; The Capitol Theatre, Nelson; Selkirk College Music Department, Nelson; Kootenay Festival of the Arts; Nelson Overture Concert Society; The Bailey Theatre, Trail; Kaslo Concert Society; Penticton Academy of Music; The Tranzac, Toronto; University of Toronto Music Department, Toronto; Elgin Winter Garden Theatre, Toronto.

Jon Batiste, Don Henley, John Kameel Farah, Ian Parker, Charles Richard-Hamelin, Eric Lu (Leeds winner), David Fung, Cheng Duo, Dr. Paul Crawford, John Cougar Mellencamp, Metric, Jason Collet (of the Broken Social Scene),Residence of the President of the University of Toronto, Marilyn Lerner, Jennifer Castle, Tania Gill, Jean Martin at Barnyard Records, Gaberiel Levine (of Black Ox Orkestar), James Rolfe (composer), Ryan Driver, and more…

Here is a video of me in my younger years saying things on TV that are, for the most part, correct: