"A passionate and very musical young pianist!"

Yingmin Li (Lora), Piano, is a native of Dalian, China.

 

Piano Instructor: Michigan State University Community Music School-Detroit

                                Expressions Music Academy 

Principal Committee Member in MTNA, Music Teacher National Association

Member of American Guide of Music Association 

 

A professional pianist with honors

She is currently pursuing Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) in piano performance at Michigan State University under the guidance of Professor Panayis Lyras. She has won many top prizes for solo performance, including:

 

1. 2012, the first prize in the 3rd national music conservatory and universities piano competition in Dalian in division A.

2. 2011, the first prize at “Dalian Keman international piano competition in the professional division.

3. 2005, Top prize at “Schumann “International piano competition in Shenyang.

4. 2008-2012, National academic scholarships for four consecutive years as well as the “Excellence Award” for Bachelor’s degree (one student a year).

 

Trained by world-renowned maestro 

Before attending MSU, She studied with famous pianist Eugene Pridonoff and Elisabeth Pridonoff for Master of Music (MM) degree in piano performance at University of Cincinnati-College-Conservatory of Music (CCM). Since she started playing piano at age of five, She was taught by many famous pianists all around the world, including James Tocco, Michael Chertock, Ilana Vered, Steinway Artist Chengfeng Hsieh, Xiangyu Mao, Chih-long Hu. Through their guidance, she has made remarkable improvements as well as overcome some of the technical difficulties she has struggled with, all the while instilling in me a deeper interest and appreciation for the pieces she was performing.

 

As a solo and chamber pianist, Yingmin (Lora) has given many solo recitals and chamber recitals in China and America from 2009 to 2019. She kept on giving solo recitals every year, collaborating with many talented musicians for chamber recitals, including quartet, trio, and duo in China, Cincinnati, and Michigan area.

 

An experienced piano instructor

 

From 2008, she started teaching piano students in China and the USA. As a doctoral piano student and piano instructor, She spent a large amount of time researching a series of music education books to make her own professional piano teaching system and approach. At the same time, She keeps learning and playing more music from the Baroque period to the contemporary period which expanded her repertoire. She gained a lot of valuable practice experience from her abundant repertoire.

Based on different student levels, she designed a specific teaching system for the beginner as well as advanced piano students which inspire students to have more interest and passion for piano learning. She is not only familiar with teaching Nancy Faber, John Thompson’s Modern Course for the piano, Suzuki, Beyer, Czerny op.299,849,599, etc., but also good at teaching advanced music from Baroque, Classical, Romanticism, and Impressionism, etc. Under her guidance, those students under different levels are able to play both solo and chamber recitals in public during short-term study among which, the first student of her was able to give the complete solo recital at 4 years old. Mastering piano performance skills helped them have a deep understanding of music and gave them an opportunity to communicate and share music with other people. In addition, performing piano in public also built up their confidence and equipped them with useful strength in their future life.