Guest Masterclass 

Kwan Yi, piano

About the artist:

Pianist Kwan Yi has performed throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia in such
venues as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Kimmel Center, Kennedy Center, Chicago
Symphony Center, Mann Performing Arts Center, Wolf Trap National Park for the
Performing Arts, Library of Congress, Metropolitan and Isabella Stewart Gardner
Museums, Großer Sendesaal des Hessischen Rundfunks, Auditorium du Louvre,
Suntory Hall, and Seoul Arts Center.

Yi has appeared as a soloist with the Russian National Orchestra, Houston Symphony
Orchestra, Brevard Festival Orchestra and the North Carolina Symphony under the
batons of Hans Graf, Julian Kuerti, Grant Llewellyn, and Mikhail Tartanikov. As a
recitalist and masterclass instructor, he has completed residencies at University of
Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, University of Maryland College Park, Bowling
Green State University, Michigan State University, University of Georgia and University
of South Carolina. As a chamber musician, he has collaborated with Itzhak Perlman,
Miriam Fried, and Roberto Diaz on national tours and was invited to perform at the
Kronberg, Ravinia, Trondheim, and the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern festivals and
Carnegie Hall Presents, Curtis Presents, CIM Mixon Hall Masters, Mondavi Center
Presents and Peoples’ Symphony Concert series. He has recorded for FHR and
Hänssler labels with violinist Itamar Zorman. His debut solo album “The Last Look”,
featuring late works by Haydn, Brahms and Dutilleux, is scheduled to be released on
Centaur Records.

A recipient of many honors and prizes, Yi’s awards include Mieczyslaw Munz Prize,
National Federation of Music Clubs Award, and prizes in the Fourth Sendai International
Piano Competition.

Yi is a graduate of the Curtis Institute, Juilliard School, and the Peabody Institute where
he worked with Leon Fleisher and Robert McDonald. He currently serves as associate
professor of piano at the East Carolina University School of Music.

Cost: Free and open to the public; No tickets required.