Kenneth Bailes Piano Tuning and Repair

"Mouth of Truth" leaves hand intact!

Ken Bailes has been an active participant in the musical life of the Washington metropolitan area for over four decades.  He has had the privilege of participating as a singer in two Grammy Award winning recordings with the Washington Chorus and the Choral Arts Society of Washington.  

Ken has performed on many occasions with the National Symphony -- as well as with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the London Symphony, the Royal Philharmonic, the Baltimore Symphony, and the Wolf Trap Opera Company -- under music directors Antal Dorati, Mstislav Rostropovich, Leonard Slatkin, Eugene Ormandy, Valery Gergiev, Sergiu Commissiona, Yuri Temirkanov, and other distinguished musicians, including Aaron Copland, John Adams, Erich Leinsdorf, Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos, Kent Nagano, Julius Rudel, Sarah Caldwell, Robert Shaw, John Williams, Roger Wagner, Norman Scribner, and Robert Shafer.

Meanwhile, in his quotidian life -- before taking up the profession of piano technician in 2008 -- Ken spent 34 years with the U.S. Department of State working on Asian affairs.  No doubt one of the most memorable events in this long career -- though not a particularly edifying one -- was to become one of the handful of Americans to visit North Korea and encounter the late despot Kim Jong-il.