Friday, May 23, 2008

Lisa Yui, New Piano Lessons for the Beginners







Mucony will feature new exciting piano lessons series for the beginners.
We just finished first part of filming with her at the Yamaha Artist Services in Manhattan, New York.
These lessons will be available to your view on July.


Yamaha Artist Service Inc., New York (photo by Phil Hwang)

Lisa Yui, who made her concerto debut at the age of seven, was the winner of the first Super Classics International Auditions in Tokyo (1999), the 23rd Senigallia International Piano Competition in Italy (1994), the Toronto Symphony Concerto Competition, and the Edmonton Symphony Concerto Competition as well as the Canadian Consulate Women's Club Piano Competition in New York. She is a two-time recipient of the Canada Council Scholarship.
Her performances and master classes have taken her through the United States, Canada, Italy and Japan. As a lecturer, lisa was invited to various colleges and venues, including the Juilliard School, Kunitachi Music University, Washington and lee University, and the University of Alberta.
She performed as soloist with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, the Polish Nat ional Radio Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, the Montreal Metropolitan Orchestra, Sinfonia Nova Amadeus, and the Krakow State Philharmonic. In the summers of 2001 and 2006, Lisa was the feature guest artist on the Japanese cruise ship, Nippcnmaru: 101 Days Around the World Tour. Her performances have been broadcast on WQXR (New York), CBC (Canadian Broadcast Corporation) national radio, CJRT-FM (Ontario, Canada), and STY (Sapporo, Japan).
In 2005 Lisa was one of the few selected Canadian artists (along with Alanis Morrisette ') from over 1000 applicants to participate in the World Exposition in Aichi, Japan, were she performed in the Expo Hall Classical Showcase a program of works by Liszt , Ravel, and Canadian composers, Franco is Morel and Colin McPhee ("Balinese ceremonial Music" for two pianos--the second "pianist" being a Yamaha Disklavier, previously recorded by Lisa), and hosted in English, Japanese, and French.
In spring 2005, Lisa was the producer and lecturer in "Beethoven at Yamaha," a nine-part lecture/ concert series in New York. where she also performed among 30 eminent pianists , including Frederic Rzewskl, Frederic Chiu, Jed Distler, and Jerome Lowenthal. In 2006, she organized “Liszt at Yamaha,” where she lectured and performed among 30 guest scholars and artists , among them Alan Walker, Leslie Howard, Thomas Mastroianni, and Jerome Lowenthal.
Dr. Yui received her bachelor's degree at the Juilliard School, working in the studio of Oxena Yablonskaya and as teaching assistant to author, professor, and pianist David Dubal. After studying with Byron Janis and Marc Silverman at Manhattan School of Music, she received her master's degree from the school, wtlich awarded her it s Rubinstein Award, given to the most promising graduate.
She received her doctor of musical arts degree and the Helen Cohn DMA Award from the school in 2005, writing her dissertation on the life of the virtuosic 1!lth.century pianist Marie Pleyel. Lisa has participated in the master classes of numerous prestigious musicians, including Emanuel Ax, Alicia de Larrocha, Leon Fleisher, Eugene Istomin, and Anton Kuerti. Her teachers and mentors have also included David meat, Leonid Hambro, Conrad Hansen, and Giovanni Valentini.
Lisa is the producer, performer, and lecturer of "The Lives of the Piano," Manhattan School of Music's first plano lecture concert series. She taught a course on the social history of the piano at Marymount Manhattan College for five years and is current ly on the faculties of Manhattan School of Music (piano literature, history of chamber music and keyboard skills) and the Music Acvancement Program at the Juilliard School, where she is department chair.
Dr. Yui is a Yamaha Artist.

Click here to visit Lisa Yui's Web

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

New Video Lessons will be Release Soon



New Lesson Video Releases
  • For more Lessons by Paul Neubauer and new to mucony cellist, Gary Hoffman will be available to your view soon .




Preview - How To Make a Oboe Reed by Liang Wang

Monday, May 12, 2008