Higuchi, Aya (Group teacher, private teacher)
Ms. Higuchi is a native of Japan, and started studying piano in the Suzuki method when she was four years old. She came to North Carolina in 1995, and excelled in performance by winning many awards and competitions, including the NC Music Teacher's College Piano Auditions, and competing as a finalist at the National Convention of MTNA in 2001. Ms. Higuchi received a Bachelor’s degree in Music from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she studied with Francis Whang for four years. She is currently studying with Louis Nagel and John Ellis at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, from where she obtained her Master’s degree in Piano Pedagogy and Performance. She is now a candidate for Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Pedagogy and Performance, and was declared the winner of concerto competition at the University of Michigan in 2002.
De Pedro, Jovanni-Rey (Private teacher)
James, Lynelle (Private teacher)
Liefer, David (Private teacher)
Liu, Yu (Private teacher)
Ms. Liu is currently a Doctor of Musical Arts pre-candidate in Piano Pedagogy and Performance
under the guidance of Professor John Ellis and Logan Skelton. Prior to
that, she received her Master of Music in Piano Pedagogy and Performance in the
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, and a Master of Music in Piano Performance in the
University of Massachusetts - Amherst where she studied with Professor
Estella Olevsky and Nadine Shank. She received her Bachelor of Music in
Piano Performance in Sichuan Conservatory of Music, China where she studied
piano with Professors including Daxin Zheng, Xiumei Li, and Zhaoyi Dan who
is also a mentor of Yundi Li.
Oh, Nuri (Private teacher)
Parsons, Jani (Private teacher)
