Pianist
Ann
Yi is an active soloist and chamber
musician with a broad range of
musical interests, ranging from
Baroque to contemporary music. A
strong advocate of new music, Ann is
dedicated to working with
contemporary composers and bringing
experimental and avant-garde music
to broader audiences. She has
worked closely with composers such
as Sylvano Bussotti, Stefano
Scodanibbio and Philippe Leroux and
performed numerous solo and chamber
works by composers including Brian
Ferneyhough, Pierre Boulez, Gérard
Grisey and Alessandro
Solbiati.
Ann is a member of the Eco Ensemble,
new music ensemble-in-residence at
the U.C. Berkeley and the Center for
New Music and Audio Technologies
(CNMAT) and has performed
extensively with new music ensembles
in the Bay Area including the San
Francisco Contemporary Music Players
and the sfSoundGroup. Recent
performances include appearances at
Cal Performances in the West Coast
premiere of Pierre Boulez's
monumental Dérive
2 with the Eco Ensemble
and the MANCA
new
music festival in Nice,
France with the San Francisco
Contemporary Music Players.
She has also appeared at San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art
(SFMOMA) and on New Music DePaul at
DePaul University in Chicago,
performing Sylvano Bussotti's piano
duo, Tableaux
Vivants Avant La passion Selon
Sade with Christopher
Jones.
Ann
holds doctoral and master's degrees in
piano performance from Indiana
University and a bachelor's degree from
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
have been recorded for the Innova
and
Tzadik labels. Ann currently resides in
Chicago.
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Christopher Jones.
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