Legendary Pianist Oxana Yablonskaya To Conduct Master Class Series At Yamaha Artist Services, Inc.

NEW YORK, N.Y. — Three-time international piano competition winner Oxana Yablonskaya will share her experience and insights into the art of piano performance in an exciting master class series presented by Yamaha Artist Services, Inc. from October 22 through October 26 at the Yamaha Piano Salon in New York City.

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Yamaha Artist Oxana Yablonskaya
Oxana Yablonskaya is an active soloist and chamber music performer as well as a professor at The Juilliard School of Music in New York City. She is a prize winner of three international competitions, including the Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud Competition in Paris, the Rio de Janeiro Competition, and the Vienna Beethoven Competition.

She has performed with more than 60 symphony orchestras, led by some of the top conductors of all time, and has appeared at such prestigious venues as Carnegie Hall in New York, the Royal Albert Hall in London, Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Orchestra Hall in Chicago and Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.

Among Yablonskaya's numerous recordings, her Liszt/Schubert CD won the Grand Prix du Disque from the international Liszt Society in Budapest. She has also served on the jury of many major international piano competitions, including the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition, International Liszt Piano Competition and the Prokofiev International Piano Competition.

A lecturer for numerous master classes at many distinguished music schools, academies, conservatories and festivals throughout the world such as Newport and Bowdin in the United States, Flaine and Tours in France, Lago Maggiore in Switzerland and Oxford Philomusica in England, she is also a co-founder of Puigcerda Musica Clasica International Festival in Spain.

The classes are $5 each and will take place on October 22-24 from 2 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. and October 25-26 from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the 3rd floor piano salon at Yamaha Artist Services, Inc., located at 689 Fifth Avenue in New York City [enter at 54th Street]. For reservations please contact (212) 339-9995, x. 227 or visit www.yamaha.com/yasi.

For more information, write Yamaha Corporation of America, Piano Division, P.O. Box 6600, Buena Park, CA 90622, telephone (714) 522-9011, or e-mail infostation@yamaha.com.