Artsmentor is an entrepreneurial consulting organization offering advice and coaching to performing artists, arts organizations, private teachers, and college/grad students.

Its founder and principal is Jill Timmons, D.M.A. who brings 25 years of experience as a tenured college professor, concert pianist, recording artist, arts advocate and teacher to her work as an arts mentor.

As a performer, Jill has toured internationally and her performances at Carnegie Hall, the Dame Myra Hess Series, Festival Mozart (France), Chenango Musikfest, the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., and Tanglewood have earned her rave reviews.

Committed to American composers, she released The Complete Piano Works of William Bergsma (Laurel Records, 1993), Chamber Music of Dexter Morrill (Capstone Records, 1997), Violin/Viola and Piano Music of Amy Beach (Centaur Records, 1998), and In Tandem: Music for Two Pianos (Capstone Records-2003). New CD Release: Cohen-Timmons Duo In Tandem Two: Twentieth Century Music for Two Pianos (Capstone 2007)

In her work as an arts mentor, she has served as a program director for Oregon Public Broadcasting and been an NEA state arts advocate for Oregon, Idaho and Arizona. She has been a consultant to state and regional divisions of the Music Teachers National Association, as well as a coach/mentor for numerous teachers and individual performing artists nationwide.

Her passionate commitment to the power of the arts to transform individuals and society sculpts her work as an artist and an arts mentor.

You may read more about Jill's perfomance career here.