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  For Boardman Methodist Church Organist Sean Baran Music Is Truly An Art Form  
  October 13, 2016 Edition  
     Walk into Boardman United Methodist Church, 6809 Market St., on just about any Sunday morning and organ music is echoing throughout the sanctuary.
      At the keyboard will be 27-year-old Sean Baran, of Chester Dr., Boardman, who knew at the age of 5-years-old, that he wanted to play the piano.
      He began to pursue his dream at the age of 11, when he was able to start taking piano lessons from Dorothy Schwers, who had a lifelong impact on Sean.
      “She inspired me to play and to love music, showing me that music expresses the beauty of the world,” Baran recalls.
      He loves to perform. He loves to share music with people. He says “it’s like opening a diary, and spilling out your thoughts.”
      A valedictorian at Austintown Fitch High School in 2007, Baran went on to become a summa cum laude from Youngstown State University’s Dana School of Music, earning bachelor and master’s degrees in music performance. He was a graduate teaching assistant while attending YSU, and currently teaches keyboard musicianship, and music theory courses at the university.
      In 2010, Baran won the Dana Young Artist Contest, which led to a performance of the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto with the Dana Orchestra.
      After earning his master’s degree in 2014, Baran was accepted to participate in the Zodiac Music Academy and Festival in southern France.
      For the past seven years, he has performed an annual May concert for the Youngstown Area Federation of Women’s Cubs, Inc.
      Catherine Campana, President of YAFWC, says the group looks so forward to his recital every year.
      Teaching is Baran’s real passion.
      “To be able to inspire students to see music as an art form, like a painting, music is an expression of oneself,” says Baran.
      He started teaching piano lessons in 2008. He has a private piano studio and says he is like a traveling teacher, also instructing YSU students, cultivating in them the desire to someday teach. His students frequently receive the highest ratings at local adjudicated events and can be heard throughout the area in recitals and in master classes.
      Baran is currently president of the Young Music Teachers Association. On the last Sunday of each month his students perform recitals at the Butler North at 2:30 p.m. The recitals are open to the public. He is also a member of the American Guild of Organists that embraces all who enjoy and promote worship through music and song.
      In July, Youngstown State University’s Dana School of Music and Valley Christian School’s Lewis Center joined with Baran, and organized a Summer Piano Camp where eight, third to eighth graders, participated with varying levels of piano and music knowledge, ending the camp with a recital.
      To help students get over the fear of performing, and to help inspire them to learn and enjoy music, Baran created The Ribbon Festival that will be held Nov. 5 at Bliss Hall.
      Many of us have dreams and goals we wish to achieve, and Sean Baran is living his dream. He loves what he does, from performing piano recitals, playing the 70-year-old pipe organ at Boardman United Methodist Church, to teaching youth to play and enjoy music, or preparing college students to teach music with a passion.
      Music is an expression of oneself, an art form, that Baran will continue to perform and teach to the world around him.
      WALK INTO THE SANCTUARY OF Boardman United Methodist Church on just about any Sunday morning and hear the music echoing throughout the sanctuary performed by Sean Baran (pictured).
 
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