Yukimi Song, Piano

Born in Tokyo, Japan, Yukimi Song began piano studying and composition at the age of four.  At twelve, she was the youngest student entering the Ueno Music Middle/High School, where she spent the next five years studying piano with Chieko Kobayashi. Ms. Song has won numerous top prizes both national and internationally, including the second prize for the Yamaha Sonare Competition in 1987.

Ms. Song left Japan for U.S .in 1995 to pursue a degree in communications. At the same time, she also studied piano under Daisy deLuca Jaffé and has continued winning several top prizes in U.S. As an active pianist and educator, Ms. Song served as a graduate assistant, where she taught piano lessons in individual and group settings, as well as assisting several world renowned vocal choirs.

After completing her master’s degree in piano performance in 2002, Ms. Song continued teaching students at a college in Florida as a full-time faculty member (until 2006) and was involved with many musical events as a soloist, a chamber musician, as well as an accompanist locally and around the nation. During the summers of 2004 and 2005, Ms. Song won a scholarship to study in Salzburg, Austria, with world renowned artists and pedagogues, Oliver Gardon and Sergei Dorenski, where she was chosen to perform at the honorary Student Concert in Wiener Saal of Mozarteum University (2005).

Currently, Ms. Song is teaching as an adjunct piano professor at New York University and performing solo and chamber concerts both locally and internationally.

 

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