Performer
Yumi Suehiro, Piano

Program
Barbara Kolb (b. 1939)
Appello (1976)

Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007)
Klavierstück VI, Nr. 4 (1954, 1955)

Hans Thomalla (b. 1975)
Ballade.Rauschen (2014)
*US premiere

Born in Osaka, Japan, pianist Yumi Suehiro began studying piano at age 6, and marimba a year later. In Japan, Ms. Suehiro won numerous national and international competitions, including the top prize at the Kobe International Competition as the youngest winner. An undergraduate scholarship student at Lehman College (CUNY), she graduated magna cum laude, and she received her Master of Music degree in piano performance from the Manhattan School of Music as a student of Zenon Fishbein and Peter Vinograde. While at Manhattan, she won second prize in the school’s 2010 concerto competition (John Harbison’s Concerto), and in 2011 was chosen to perform Richard Wilson’s “Flashback” for Pierre-Laurent Aimard’s master class.