Ann Yi, Pianist

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Pianist Ann Yi is an active soloist and chamber musician in the Bay Area with a broad range of musical interests, ranging from Baroque to contemporary music. As a solo, chamber, and collaborative artist, Ann has appeared nationally and internationally at Théâtre National de Nice, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, Indiana University, Joliet College, Lewis and Clark College, Stanford University, U.C. Berkeley, San José State University, San Francisco State University, and Sacramento State University, and at numerous venues in San Francisco including ODC Theatre, Herbst Theatre, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and Old First Church, and San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

Ann has an ongoing commitment to championing works by contemporary composers, stemming from her studies with Pi-hsien Chen and Kaya Han at the 2002 Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in Darmstadt, Germany. She has performed with the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, the sfSoundGroup, Earplay, the Adorno Ensemble, the Alexander String Quartet, and soprano, Susan Naruki.

Ann has performed numerous solo and chamber works by many of the leading composers of our time, such as Stefano Scodanibbio, Philippe Leroux, and Alessandro Solbiati. She has appeared at new music festivals such as the 30th MANCA new music festival in Nice, France in 2009, Primavera Italiana: The Spring Festival of Italian New Music in San Francisco in 2008, and the Sacramento State University 31st Annual Festival of New American Music in 2008. Recently, she performed György Ligeti's Chamber Concerto with sfSoundGroup at San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and Brian Ferneyhough's Flurries with San Francisco Contemporary Music Players at Herbst Theatre. Upcoming concerts include a performance of Sylvano Bussotti's Tableaux Vivants Avant la Passion Selon Sade Pour Deux Pianos Á Quatre Mains at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA).

Ann received a Doctor of Music and Master of Music in Piano Performance at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and a Bachelor of Music at San José State University. She studied principally with Evelyne Brancart, and also with Jean-Louis Haguenauer, Karen Shaw, Alfred Kanwischer and Jonathan Bass. Her performances are featured on Innova Records and Tzadik Records. A dedicated teacher, Ann is on the faculties at Cañada College and Skyline College, and actively maintains a private studio in San Francisco.