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Ms. Yui is a faculty member in the College for the following department(s) and division(s):
| | | 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 has been invited to various colleges and venues, including the Juilliard School, Kunitachi Music University, Washington and Lee University, and the University of Alberta. She has performed as soloist with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, the Polish National 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, Nipponmaru: 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 STV (Sapporo, Japan).
In 2005 Lisa was selected among over 1000 Canadian artists to participate in the World Exposition in Aichi, Japan, where she performed in the Expo Hall Classical Showcase, and hosted in English, Japanese, and French. In spring 2005, she 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 Rzewski, 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.
Ms. Yui received her bachelor's degree at the Juilliard School, working in the studio of Oxana 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, which awarded her its 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 19th-century pianist Marie Pleyel. Lisa has participated in the master classes of numerous prestigious musicians, including Emmanuel Ax, Alicia de Larrocha, Leon Fleisher, Eugene Istomin, and Anton Kuerti. Her teachers and mentors have also included David Dubal, 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 piano lecture concert series. She taught a course on the social history of the piano at Marymount Manhattan College for five years and is currently on the faculties of Manhattan School of Music (piano literature, history of chamber music and keyboard skills) and the Music Advancement Program at the Juilliard School, where she is department chair.
Ms. Yui is a Yamaha Artist.
Manhattan School of Music faculty since 2004.
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