Lewisville Lake International

Chamber Series

Free concerts featuring emerging artists

 from around the world

Emöke and Eri

Four Hands, One Piano

Pianists Emöke Ujj and Eri Yoshimura

from Hungary and Japan

Sponsored by the Lewisville Lake Symphony in cooperation with the University of North Texas

Tuesday, December 30, 2008 at 7:30 p.m.

Trinity Presbyterian Church  (Map)
5500 Morriss Road, Flower Mound TX 75028
(Just south of Marcus HS, on the other side of the road.)

Concert is free  - a donation to the Symphony is welcomed

Claude Debussy: Petite Suite

I. En bateau
II. Cortège
III. Menuet
IV. Ballet

Yoshinao Nakada: Four Seasons of Japan

V. From early autumn to mid-autumn
I. Spring has come and cherry blossoms bloomed

Francisco Nunez Montes: Variation - excerpt

I. Pirekua
III. Mozartiana

---intermission---

Gabriel Faure: Dolly Op.56
I. Berceuse
II. “Messieu Aoul”
III. Le jardin de Dolly
IV. Kitty-valse
V. Tendresse
VI. Le pas espagnol

Heberto Alcazar: Jazz Trilogy Op.3 (12 min)
I. First movement
II. Second movement
III. Third movement

Just released Eri and Emokë CD

Emöke Ujj

Dr. Emöke Ujj-Hilliard's career path for reaching her goal of performing and teaching piano has included completing an undergraduate and master's degree at the Franz Liszt Conservatory in Debrecen, Hungary. During her undergraduate years she won 3rd prize at the Béla Bartók National Piano Competition in 1996. She graduated with a master¹s degree in piano performance in 1999. For her doctoral studies she came to the United States. In May 2004, she received a Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) from the University of North Texas, Denton. While at UNT, she studied piano performance under Dr. Pamela Mia Paul and music theory with Dr. Timothy Jackson.

She often gives solo and chamber concerts in Hungary, the United States and Mexico where she recently moved. Dr. Ujj recently performed at the Poets N' Jazz concert in the Convention Center of Dallas, Texas while promoting her new CD 'Swimming In Dark Water'. Living in Mexico is giving her a new opportunity to perform regularly and organize concerts, festivals.

She has performed four hand piano recitals with Eri Yoshimura in Japan, Mexico, and Hungary, a chamber music concert at the Concert Hall of the Hungarian Radio ('Marble Hall') in Budapest, Hungary and countless chamber and solo concerts in Cancún, Mexico.

More on Emöke Ujj at www.emoke.net

Download tracks from her album 'Emöeke'  http://www.emoke.net/music/music.htm

Eri Yoshimura

Born in Osaka, Japan, Eri Yoshimura earned a music education degree from Shinshu University before moving to Denton, Texas. There, she obtained a second bachelor’s and a master’s degree in piano performance from the University of North Texas. She is currently pursuing a Doctorate of Musical Arts degree in piano performance under Dr. Pamela Mia Paul with a related field in Music and Medicine under Dr. Kris Chesky.

Eri Yoshimura’s scholarly research has focused on understanding and preventing piano-related medical problems. Her first two researches have been published in the Medical Problems of Performing Artists journal in September 2006 and 2008.

She is currently involved in the study that uses the force sensors and the motion-capture cameras to understand performance-related factors associated with pain. Her research interest is ongoing and focused on the possible application of an ergonomically modified keyboard (a smaller keyboard) for small-handed pianists.

In April 2006 she premiered the small keyboard, 15/16 the size of a standard keyboard, in her solo recital playing Debussy’s 24 Preludes. She has presented her research in conferences at Aspen (PAMA), Chicago (MTNA), Serbia (EPTA) and England (RNCM).

Eri Yoshimura has performed solo recitals and four-hands recitals in USA (including Hawaii), Japan, Mexico, Italy, and Hungary. In addition to performing, she was a teaching fellow at UNT and has taught the group and private piano lessons and Occupational Health: Lessons From Music course at UNT.

More on Eri Yoshimura at www.dolcedolcemusic.com