Kimball & Edward Richards
ABOUT KIMBALL & EDWARD RICHARDS
Edward Richards born and raised in the Chicagoland area started piano lessons at age 8 and paid his way through accounting school by tuning pianos. Edward is a degreed accountant who graduated with Honors from DePaul University.
After learning to tune pianos at age 19 and completing his accounting degree, Edward was recruiting by top accounting firm then known as Peat, Marwick in Los Angeles. He left accounting at age 27 returning to piano tuning and shortly thereafter opened first retail piano store in 1988 in Northwest Suburbs of Chicago. In 1991, Edward Richards co-founded Fandrich Piano Company and in 1994 opened a second retail piano store in the former DePaul University’s Music Mart at State & Jackson, downtown Chicago.
The Everett piano brand name was acquired in 1995 and the Kimball brand in 2005.
Fandrich Piano Factory, 1991 Edward's Pianos, Cary, IL, Opening, 1988
Charles & Barbara Walters, Edward Richards
UPCOMING EVENTS:
July 30 - August 1, Lombard, IllinoisThe National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy The Westin Lombard Yorktown Center70 Yorktown Shopping CenterLombard, IL 60148(650) 719-8000 www.FrancesClarkCenter.org Visit Us - Booths: 40 & 41 Thurs & Friday, July 30 and 31, 9am to 6pm Saturday, August 1st 9am to 2pm
RECENT EVENTS:
MTNA, March 2009, Atlanta, GA
BELOW: MTNA Young Artist Piano Competition Winner, Anna Bulkina of TX in the foreground at the Kimball Model K1 Grand, practicing just hours before her competition winning performance, accompanied by Chuifun Poon of Hong Kong, who's playing on the Sohmer Model S-180