Kwan Yi
Pianist
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, the Metropolitan and Isabella Stewart Gardner Museums, Jordan Hall, Jones Hall, Mann Performing Arts Center, Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts, Library of Congress, Kravis Center of the Arts, Großer Sendesaal des Hessischen Rundfunks, Auditorium du Louvre, Teatro Principal de Alicante, Suntory Hall, and Seoul Arts Center.
Mr. Yi has appeared as a soloist with the Russian National Orchestra, Houston Symphony Orchestra, and the Brevard Festival Orchestra under the batons of Hans Graf, Julian Kuerti, Grant Llewellyn and Mikhail Tartanikov. As an avid chamber musician, he has collaborated with Itzhak Perlman, Miriam Fried, Roberto Diaz, Anthony McGill and members of Vermeer Quartet and was invited to perform at the Kronberg, Ravinia, Mecklenburg-‐Vorpommern, Trondheim, Rockport and the Castleton Festivals. As a recitalist and masterclass instructor, he has completed residencies at the Bowdoin College, Michigan State University, University of Arkansas, Grand Valley State University, Marylhurst University, Ouchita Baptist University, Stephen F. Austin University, Radford University, Randolph College, Theatre de Vevey in Switzerland, and Sendai Cultural Center in Japan. His performances have been broadcast by WQXR, WHYY, KUHF, Radio France and Radio Frankfurt. He has recorded for Hänssler label with Violinist Itamar Zorman.
A recipient of many honors and prizes, Mr. Yi's awards include Mieczyslaw Munz Prize, National Federation of Music Clubs Award, and top prizes in Sendai International Piano Competition, and Trio di Trieste and Trondheim International Chamber Music Competitions.
Mr. Yi is a graduate of the Curtis Institute, Juilliard School and the Peabody Institute where he worked with Leon Fleisher and Robert McDonald.
Mr. Yi is currently Assistant Professor of Piano at East Carolina University, (Greenville, NC).