19B, SS2/55, 47300 Petaling Jaya, Selangor.
Admission: RM40 for observer,
RM25 for participant (places are limited,
participant who wish to play,
please kindly contact 016-3618504 for confirmation.)
(pieces from op.72, 76, 116, 117, 118, 119 & 10)
OH Yann Shie
“I would definitely want to hear more of you,” – remarked Gary Graffman after her performance at the Oxford Piano Festival in July 2009.
3rd prizewinner at the 2008 Nikolai Rubinstein International Piano Competition in France,
Miss Oh is also the first Malaysian to enter and graduate from
the prestigious Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatoire in Moscow,
Russia (alma mater of Rachmaninov, Scriabin, Svyatoslav Richter,
Emil Gilels, Mikhail Pletnev and Ivo Pogorelich to name a few)
in November 2008 with a Doctorate in Piano Performance
and two minors in chamber ensemble and voice accompaniment.
Since her debut of the Grieg Piano Concerto at the age of 13 with
the Kuala Lumpur City Hall Orchestra at the DBKL Auditorium and
a subsequent appearance abroad at the Liszt Memorial Concert Hall in
Budapest, Hungary the following year, Yann Shie has been a frequent
performer in Malaysia, playing in various concert halls including the
Dewan Merdeka in PWTC, the Komtar Auditorium, the Dewan Budaya
at the University of Science in Penang and appearing as soloist with
the KL Symphony Orchestra and KL Youth Orchestra.
Throughout her studies in Moscow, Yann Shie's playing has taken her
from the halls in Moscow including the Rachmaninov Hall and the
Small Hall of the Conservatoire, the Concert Hall of the
Central Music School affiliated to the Conservatoire, the Prokofiev Museum and
the Glinka Museum to the Sheremet’yev Palace in St. Petersburg and
the Great Hall of the Tambov Rachmaninov Music Institute in Tambov.
She is a regular performer at the annual Oxford Philomusica Piano Festival in
Oxford, UK. Other appearances include performing at the
Piano Festival in Nice, France in August 2007 and in Leipzig at the
Bluthner PianoforteFabrik Pavillion.
In June 2009 Yann Shie conducted an all-Schumann piano
lecture-recital at the Kaohsiong Wen Tzao Language College.
Later in July she was guest soloist for the
2009 HSBC Classic’s “Festival of Rising Stars”,
where she performed the Yellow River Piano Concerto with the KLPac orchestra.
2010 brought her to Hangzhou and Shanghai on a piano duo tour
and a master class at the Shanghai Music Conservatoire.
Yann Shie returned for the 2011 HSBC Classics, staging a
Piano Quintet Chamber Music Evening and
a chamber ensemble workshop.
Events in 2012 included 2 recitals in Japan in March and adjudicating for
the Kota Kinabalu Music Festival in early June and the
MYOF Music Festival in early September.
Yann Shie has worked with internationally renowned pianists and pedagogues
Sulamita Aronovsky, Vladimir Krainev, John Lill, Xu Zhong and
Patsy Toh in master classes. She herself has given a series of
master classes for the piano faculties of UPM，UiTM, USM and UCSI.
She is currently on the faculty of the Vibrante School of Music in
Subang Jaya and an appointed external examiner for Master of
Music Programme of TwinTech University College.
On a side note, Yann Shie was engaged by the
Esplanade Theatre of Singapore as assistant stage manager for the
South-East Asia Tour of the renowned Mariinsky Ballet Troup and
Orchestra from St. Petersburg in Sept 2011.
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