“I stay up nights

exploring all

these sounds...”

Dedicated Ensemble With Unique Mission

Terri Buckner, Carol Cole, Nancy Hahn, Linda Miller, and Cheryl Saborsky have a new way to attract Clavinova digital piano converts—they are members of a five-piece Yamaha Clavinova piano ensemble. Two years ago, musical director/arranger Saborsky conceived Kingdom’s Keyboards, an outreach program based at Grace United Methodist Church in Denver, CO. The group now happily spends hours together practicing and rehearsing for several concerts, worship services, and events each year, including two classes for the church and community—Clavinova Technology and Performance and Music For Wellness.

“It is extremely rare to have a Clavinova ensemble at a church,” Saborsky explains. “One of the goals of our community outreach program is to share the beauty and technology of these magnificent instruments through performance and education.”

Steppin’ Out With Kingdom’s Keyboards, the group’s new CD, was recorded on one CVP109, four CVP107s, one CVP105, and one CVP79, loaned by Bob Baker of Wells Music in Denver. The CD perfectly captures their eclectic repertoire of sacred, secular, and classical keyboard music, from composers such as Andrew Lloyd Webber, Johann Pachelbel, Beethoven, Mozart, and Yamaha artist Phillip Keveren.

Kingdom’s Keyboards members from left to right: Linda Miller, Carol Cole, Terri Buckner, Nancy Hahn, and Cheryl Saborsky, director, seated in front of the Clavinova digital piano

Saborsky has two Clavinova digital pianos at her home, a CVP79 and a CVP107. “It’s so exciting to arrange vocal music, miniature scores, even 16-part concertos and symphonies for the Clavinova ensemble,” she explains. “I stay up nights exploring all these sounds, more than 600 of them! It’s a whole new field, and we’re eager to share our work with other churches.”