Recently relocated to Santa Barbara from Gilroy, CA, Candace Fazzio is a well-rounded pianist and teacher with a special interest in composers from the American continents beginning with the Ragtime Era and moving to the present day. Her constantly-expanding repertoire also includes lyrical arrangements of popular music standards. She has also created well-received live piano accompaniments for silent movies such as Chaplin’s The Tramp, several Harold Lloyd films including the full-length feature The Kid Brother, and Buster Keaton’s Sherlock Jr. Candace has performed as a soloist with South Valley Symphony and Chorale and in the San Juan Bautista SHP museum for Living History Days and has participated in both the Sutter Creek and West Coast Ragtime Festivals. She has presented her programs “Beyond the Maple Leaf Rag, How Syncopation Led to a Century of Keyboard Music,” and “Piano Music with a Latin Flavor,” to state-level conferences of the California Association of Professional Music Teachers and the Music Teachers’ Association of California. Candace’s teaching career began in Saratoga, CA in 1973. In 1995, she opened The Music Academy, located in downtown Gilroy, which, in addition to instruction in piano, guitar, and voice, presented periodic concerts featuring local musicians.