Ann Yi, Pianist

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ANN UNJU YI
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Pianist Ann Yi is an active soloist and chamber musician with a broad range of musical interests, ranging from Baroque to contemporary music. As an advocate of new music, Ann has performed numerous solo and chamber works by many of the leading composers of our time, including Brian Ferneyhough, Sylvano Bussotti, Stefano Scodanibbio, and Alessandro Solbiati. Ann is a frequent guest pianist with new music ensembles in the bay area, the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players and the sfSoundGroup. She is a member of the Eco Ensemble, a new music ensemble-in-residence at U.C. Berkeley and the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT).

Recent performances have included appearances at the MANCA new music festival in Nice, France with SFCMP and at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) with sfSoundGroup, and at Cal Performances with the West Coast premiere of the monumental Pierre Boulez Dérive 2 with Eco Ensemble.
Her recent collaborations have included performances with the Adorno Ensemble, the Alexander String Quartet, and soprano, Susan Naruki at the First Annual Symposium on Music in the 21st Century at San Francisco State University. She has also appeared at numerous concert series in the US including the Music Now and From almost Yesterday Concert Series at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Ann holds degress of Doctor of Music and Master of Music in Piano Performance at Indiana University 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. Ann is on the faculties at Cañada College and Skyline College.