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LISA YUI
Described as "a musical phenomenon" (Pianiste), Lisa Yui enjoys a multifaceted musical career as pianist, lecturer, teacher, author, and musical director. Ms. Yui has performed throughout North America, Europe, and Asia as a recitalist and soloist with orchestra. She is the top prizewinner of the Senigallia International Piano Competition in Italy, the Super Classics International Auditions in Tokyo and has twice been the recipient of a Canada Council Scholarship.
Ms. Yui has worked with such prominent orchestras as the Tokyo Symphony, Polish National Radio, Toronto Symphony, Edmonton Symphony, the Montreal Metropolitan Orchestra, and the Krakow State Philharmonic. As a lecturer and performer, Ms. Yui originated The Lives of the Piano, Manhattan School of Music's first piano lecture/concert series, now in its fourteenth season.. In 2005, Ms. Yui produced a nine-part lecture/concert series in New York, "Beethoven at Yamaha" The following year, she produced "Liszt at Yamaha," and has worked extensively with the Yamaha Disklavier, having given numerous performances, including a solo recital of music for four hands, two pianos, and piano and orchestra, as well as long-distance "remote lessons." Ms. Yui's recent CD of the music of Carl Maria von Weber and Jan Ladislav Dussek was awarded the highest rating, the "Pianiste Maestro," by the French music magazine, Pianiste. In 2014 her video performance of four Beethoven Sonatas with commentary was released on DVD/Blu-ray on the Aurora Classics label and has since garnered rave reviews.
Ms. Yui's principal teachers and mentors include Giovanni Valentini, Oxana Yablonskaya at the Juilliard School, Byron Janis and Marc Silverman at Manhattan School of Music, Edna Golandsky, David Dubal, Jean-Paul Sevilla and Leonid Hambro.
Ms. Yui currently teaches graduate piano literature and keyboard skills at Manhattan School of Music and studio piano at John J. Cali School of Music at Montclair State University, while maintaining a private piano studio in Manhattan. She was the director of Ensemble 212's Young Artist Competition Series, has served as department chair of the Music Advancement Program at the Juilliard School and has taught a course on the social history of the piano at Marymount Manhattan College for many years. Lisa Yui is a Yamaha Artist.
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LocationDiMenna Center for Classical Music (View)
450 West 37th Street
New York, NY 10001
United States
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