Dean Lemire is a native of Portland, Oregon. He started playing the piano at the age of five. His training in classical piano was with the late Mary Dunlap, Music Department Chair, at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon. He later studied theatre pipe organ with the late Don Simmons and Jerry Gregorius.

Dean started performing at Oaks Park Roller Rink in Portland at age 17, where he still still occasionally performs on the 4/18 Wurlitzer theatre pipe organ. In addition to Oaks Park Rink, Dean was an organist at Imperial Roller Rink in Portland. He played at Organ Grinder pizza restaurant in Portland and a staff organist at Uncle Milt’s Pipe Organ Pizza in Vancouver, WA for over twenty years. Dean was a featured concert artist at the national convention of the American Theatre Organ Society (ATOS) in 1988 and 2010. For many years, he was the team organist for the Portland Trailblazers at the Memorial Coliseum, as well as team organist for the Portland Beavers baseball team at Civic Stadium/PGE Park. As an accomplished jazz pianist, Dean has traveled extensively as a keyboard artist with various USO military tour groups. He has performed with such names as Bob Hope and Glen Campbell among others… entertaining US troops worldwide on four continents…from military bases and hospitals.…to the carrier deck of the USS Enterprise.

Currently, Dean is resident organist and Program Director at Portland’s historic Hollywood Theatre for the “Pipe Organ Pictures” silent film series - where he regularly performs his original scores live on the Hollywood’s Mighty Wurlitzer theatre pipe organ. He is an active Lifetime member and Past President of the Columbia River Theatre Organ Society, a non-profit Oregon based organization which promotes and preserves this most uniquely American instrument….the theatre pipe organ.