Emöke and Eri

Four Hands, One Piano

Pianists Emöke Ujj and Eri Yoshimura

from Hungary and Japan

Lewisville Lake International

Chamber Series

Free concerts featuring emerging artists

 from around the world.

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
Yoshinao Nakada: Four Seasons of Japan
Heberto Alcazar: Jazz Trilogy Op.3
Gabriel Faure: Dolly Op.56
Francisco Nunez Montes: Variation

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 in 1998. There, she obtained a second bachelor¹s and a master¹s 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 Yoshimura¹s scholarly research has focused on understanding and preventing piano-related medical problems. Her first major research effort involved extensive upper-extremity evaluations of 35 college-level piano majors. A scientific paper titled: 'Risk Factors for Piano-related Pain among College Students' has been published in the Medical Problems of Performing Artists journal in September 2006.

Her research interest is ongoing and focused on reducing piano-related pain among pianists and the possible application of a smaller keyboard for small-handed pianists. She has presented her work in conferences at Aspen (PAMA), Chicago (MTNA), and Serbia (EPTA).

Eri Yoshimura has performed recitals in the USA, Japan, Mexico, Italy, and Hungary (Franz Liszt International Festival). In addition to performance, she works as a teaching fellow at UNT."
 

More on Eri Yoshimura at www.dolcedolcemusic.com