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Dr. HANNA CYBA was born in Poland and began piano lessons at the age of five. After completing her piano education at the Szymanowski Music Lyceum, she continued studies with the renowned Polish pianist/composer and Professor Jan Ekier (known for his authoritative Urtext edition of Chopin’s music for the Polish National Edition) at the prestigious F. Chopin Academy and University of Music in Warsaw, Poland. After graduating, she received a full scholarship to study piano and chamber music with J. Bonn and A. Smith at the University of Southern California. She continued her pianistic education at the University of Miami where she was a Teaching Assistant, earning a Doctorate in Musical Arts in piano performance.

Hanna Cyba has performed in Poland, Italy, Australia, the Czech Republic and the United States in solo and chamber music recitals as well as with orchestras and has participated in international piano competitions as well as master classes. She organized the piano pedagogy program at Barry University where she was an adjunct professor of music (piano), worked in the Keyboard for Kids pedagogy program at the University of Miami, was an accompanist at the Grand Theater National opera in Warsaw, Poland, and serves on various piano competition juries. She also serves on the board of the directors of The Chopin Foundation of the United States Northwest Council. Dr. Cyba is now accepting competition level as well as hobby level piano students and beginners in Bellevue, Kirkland, Redmond, Seattle and area. – (limited enrollment.)

Dr. ADAM ALEKSANDER is also in great demand as one of the top teachers in the area; his students consistently win local and national piano competitions. He has given master classes at universities in SUNY Fredonia, Baylor, North Texas in Denton, Grand Valley State in Michigan, Loyola New Orleans, Viterbo, Georgia State University, Northeastern Illinois in Chicago, as well as in Vancouver, Japan and Ecuador. Dr. Aleksander was an adjunct professor at Barry University where he taught piano, piano literature and music history and was a teaching assistant during his doctoral studies at University of Miami where he taught piano and class piano as well as theory.

Born in Edmonton, Canada, Adam Aleksander has been performing to the acclaim of audiences worldwide since his debut with orchestra at the age of fourteen with the Chopin Piano Concerto in E Minor. He has studied with Sergei Babayan at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Regina Smendzianka at the Chopin Academy and University in Warsaw, Poland (where he met his future wife, Dr. Hanna Cyba), J. Bonn at the University of Southern California, and has a Doctorate Degree in Music (University of Miami). He has performed at festivals in Tokyo, Tours, Atami, Orford, Quebec, Interlochen, Michigan, Cleveland, Miami, Winnipeg as well as Slupsk and Antonin, Poland.

Dr. Aleksander has received top prizes in over nineteen piano competitions, including international and national competitions in Barcelona, Paris, Salerno, Miami, Edmonton, Lawton and Palm Beach, and has received prizes for his recordings in competitions in Austin, Texas and Calgary, Canada. In addition, he has been awarded grants from The Canada Council and The Alberta Heritage Trust Fund. Adam Aleksander has made television, CD, and radio recordings and has performed in Japan, Italy, France, Spain, Poland, South Africa, Scotland, Brazil, Ecuador, Canada and the U.S. His recordings are available on iTunes, amazon.com and other websites. He is artistic advisor for the National Chopin Foundation of the United states and also serves on the Board of Directors for The Chopin Foundation of the United States Northwest Council. Dr. Aleksander is one of the most experienced and successful piano teachers in the Bellevue, Redmond, Kirkland and Seattle area.

Incredible Piano Performances from 7-15 year old piano students of Adam Aleksander and Hanna Cyba spontaneously captured by Dr. Sanford Wright’s Cell phone directed out from his 2nd Floor Office Doorway toward the “The Hartley Recording Studio”!

“The Hartley Recording Studio”

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Performance #7

Many have been grateful for hartleymansion.org that was created by Allan Park, who along with his piano students, are frequent “Guests” of the Hartley Mansion.

Chase Anderson, Jenny Anderson, Neil Anderson, Erica Haigh, Graham Haigh, Ruby Haigh & Friend

Neil Anderson – Roland Hartley Great Grandson
Erica Haigh – Great, Great Granddaughter
Jenny Anderson – Wife of Great, Great Grandson
Chase Anderson – Great, Great, Great Grandson
Graham Haigh – Great, Great, Great Grandson
Ruby Haigh – Great, Great, Great Granddaughter
(Ruby’s Friend)

Neil Anderson, Great Grandson of Roland Hartley, introduces the Hartley “Great Great’s” and Hartley “Great, Great, Great’s”

Neil Anderson calls out the Hartley Family Generations from the old photo of Roland Hartley Family on the Front Steps of the Governor’s Mansion in Olympia

Piano Recitals of 30 years ago

The Story of Roland Hartley, Halloween and Coca Cola

THE HARTLEY GREATS were a GIFT to the HARTLEY MANSION

Hartley ‘Greats’ Tour the Mansion

Chase Anderson, Jenny Anderson, Neil Anderson, Erica Haigh, Graham Haigh, Ruby Haigh & Friend

The 14 year old Canadian Immigrant of 1878, Roland Hartley,  indeed created a Monument to his American Dream, the Hartley Mansion, that can be shared with future generations of his family as well as future generations of our community!

HISTORIC HARTLEY MANSION RESTORATION/RENOVATION PROJECT
Phase I 1983-4    Phase II 1987-88
Through an introduction by my father, Sanford Wright Sr., a retired general building contractor, I was introduced to Peter Newland, Newland Construction. My father also introduced me to Bob Butterfield, an architect of Butterfield Design, who worked closely with Newland Construction on this project. There were no specific architectural plans or drawings for this project. In one instance, to make a point, Bob Butterfield wrote out an idea or design on the wall now hidden behind the large mirror located halfway up the main staircase.

RESTORATION TEAM:
Steven Underwood, Project Office Manager: Scott Fuller, on-site construction superintendent for phase II (mainly the 3rd floor project). Larry Kanikeberg, the on-site construction superintendent for phase I (mainly 1st & 2nd floors), was not present.

SPECIAL TOUR 3-14-24:
Special Guests Scott Fuller and Steven Underwood led by Sanford Wright MD, who was accompanied by Bob Brown, Office Maintenance Extraordinaire (2011 – 2024).

Scott Fuller (left); Bob Brown (center); Steve Underwood (right)

The Tour was “born” when I received a call from Joni Smith about a month earlier. I had met Joni at the Hartley Mansion a few months prior to that and learned that she worked at the Hartley Mansion – then the “LeGault Nursing Home” – as a young Nurse. Her nursing desk was located to the left of the the bathroom door on the main floor of the Hartley Mansion through removal of the lower back stairway.

Joni called me and let me know that a friend, Scott Fuller, the retired Newland construction supervisor of the Historic Hartley Mansion Restoration Project was visiting her home about a block for Providence Regional Medical Center Everett. I was there within minutes!

After re-uniting with Scott Fuller, who I had worked with so closely 40 years earlier, I immediately asked him if he would like to visit the old Hartley Mansion – to which his reply was an enthusiastic “YES!”. And I was thrilled that he has stayed in touch with Steve Underwood these past 40 years. We totally agreed that he should be with us on the Tour.

Finally, the Tour wouldn’t be complete without the presence of our current office maintenance manager extraordinaire, Mr. Bob Brown.

We all agreed that the Tour was “ON” for March 14, 2024!

Please “Click” to choose your favorite part of the Tour:

• Greetings and Main Floor: 0 – 23:59
• Upstairs 2nd Floor: 23:59 – 30:50
• Upstairs 3rd Floor: 30:50 – 58:36
• Upstairs 2nd Floor Special Elevator: 58:36 -1:03:52
• Upstairs 2nd Floor SJW Office: 1:03:52 – 1:16:08
• Conclusion of Tour: 0 – 1:49

Entire Tour

Conclusion of Tour

Sanford Wright MD
Neurological Surgeon
Owner of the Historic Hartley Mansion

Introduction – Jamie Curtissmih and Gary Christiansen

“Do-Re-Mi”

“Downtown” & “Broadway” & “Left Turn on Hewitt Avenue”

“Georgia On My Mind”

Gary – Personal Background Comments

“The Days of Wine and Roses”

“Nowhere Man” & “Piano Man”

“This Time”

INTERMISSION – Joshua playing during break

“Honeysuckle Rose”

“I’m Hip”

“Linus and Lucy”

“Nights in White Satin”

“Let It Be”

“The End of the Line”

ENCORE – Joshua and Gary

Robyn Renee, a Mental Health Professional with an office in the Historic Hartley Mansion, becomes the spontaneous Tour Guide for some unexpected guests.

Noel Hartley Anderson Sanchez and her husband, Wylie, were on their way to the airport, when they realized that they had an extra hour or two to spare. So, they stopped by the old Hartley Mansion.

However, they then resumed their drive until Noel called her mom in Minnesota, who told her to “Get back there. Talk to someone. Try and look around.”

Noel explained that she and Wylie live in Austin Texas. However, her family is from the Minnesota, Duluth-Twin Cities area. She explained that there is a Hartley Building in Duluth Minnesota. Noel told us that her grandma, Jance Hartley, lived in the Hartley mansion for a few years, when she was very little.

Noel said that she is the great, great, great granddaughter of Roland Hartley. She is related to the Neil Hartley branch of the family. (Neil Hartley Anderson is the great, great, grandson of Roland Hartley.)

Noel explained that they were on their Honeymoon. Even though they were married last year, they needed more time off for the honeymoon. So they planned the honeymoon this year.

Robyn’s other’s interest in Champion Afghan Hounds was shared by Noel. It was decided that they should be given “The Tour”.

Noel and Wylie along with Dr. Wright, cell phone videographer, Re-Grouped to begin “The Tour” in front of the Roland Hartley Banner near the front door of the Hartley Mansion.

Noel pointed out the name “Abigail Estey” on the Banner and cited a heretofore unknown historical narrative. She had been told that Abigail Estey was the granddaughter of one of the Jurors in the Salem Witch Trials, who condemned Mary Estey’s grandmother to death. She thought that her descendants later fled to Canada. Pointing to another area on the Roland Hartley Banner, she pointed out the name of “Gretchen”, who is her great Aunt, who still lives in Washington.

The family Shogomoc Maple Syrup Story.

Bob Brown coming down stairs encounters our special guests. “Pises Pie” anybody?

Bob, the Hartley Mansion Decorator Extraordinaire, mentions the 4th of July Holiday Decorations – including “Captain America”.

The Basement door, restored and brought to the main floor by Bob Brown, contains the maintenance record of the Hartley Pierce Arrow. After squinting at the hand writing, Noel concludes that it looks just like her grandma Janice’s hand writing. “I have her handwriting on some cards at home. It looks just like it!”

Dr. Wright asks Noel and Wylie to explain the “Mystery” of why a phone marked “Garage” is found in basement the Hartley Mansion.

After the visit, Maureen Keenan is descending the back stairs and explains how this unexpected visit of Noel and her husband, Wylie, unfolded.

Dr. Wright specifically explains that it was Maureen, who announced to him the unexpected arrival of Roland Hartley’s great, great, great granddaughter.

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