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2015 Excellence in Graduate and Professional Teaching Award, University of Minnesota

2001 Distinguished McKnight Professor, University of Minnesota

2000 Dean’s Medal, University of Minnesota

From August 1989 to June 2020, Lydia Artymiw was on the faculty of the University of Minnesota School of Music in Minneapolis, which honored her with the 2015 “Excellence in Graduate and Professional Teaching Award,” the “Distinguished McKnight Professorship” in 2001, and the 2000 “Dean’s Medal” for Outstanding Professor. She is the first and only performing artist at the University of Minnesota’s School of Music to receive all three of these awards. Artymiw now holds Emerita status at the University of Minnesota.

Artymiw’s studio (with 48 DMA graduates, 20 MM graduates, and 9 BM graduates) is one of the most prolific and successful at the University of Minnesota, and her students have attained international careers as performers and professors at universities and colleges throughout the US, Canada, and Asia. Two of Lydia Artymiw’s former students have been First Prize winners of the WAMSO Minnesota Orchestra Competition: Wonny Song in 2001 (who also won the Grand Award) and Andrew Staupe in 2006. Song and Staupe were invited to perform with the Minnesota Orchestra after winning the WAMSO, and both were re-engaged for subscription series concerts with the Minnesota Orchestra in subsequent seasons. The Minnesota Orchestra invited Andrew Staupe and Lydia Artymiw to perform the Mozart Concerto for Two Pianos, K. 365 under the direction of Osmo Vänskä at Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis in January 2011. In January 2015, Artymiw’s PSEO student at the University of Minnesota, Zhen Tu, was the First and Grand Prize winner of the Minnesota Orchestra’s YPSCA Competition, resulting in eight Children’s Concerts performances with the Minnesota Orchestra at Orchestra Hall.

In May 2019 Artymiw was appointed Honorary Professor of Piano at the China Central Conservatory in Beijing. Since 2015, Artymiw has also been a frequent guest piano teacher at the Juilliard School in New York, working with students of Veda Kaplinsky and Matti Raekallio.

From the Minneapolis Star Tribune (January 14,2011):

“The Mozart Concerto for Two Pianos (with Osmo Vänskä conducting the Minnesota Orchestra) featured veteran Lydia Artymiw and her former student, Andrew Staupe. The soloists traded phrases back and forth in a dialogue that revealed their accomplished virtuosity. They were clearly reveling in playing off one another. Their joy was infectious.”

See what students have said about Lydia: Student Testimonials

Doctoral graduates:

Jeri-Mae Astolfi

University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Artist-in-Residence at Piedmont College, Georgia, beginning 2013.

Kate Yeonjoo Bae

University of MN-Morris, 2016-2019, Mary Hardin Baylor University (TX) from 2019, and Temple College (TX) from 2020


Bethel Balge

Professor of Piano at Bethany Lutheran College, Mankato MN and Martin Luther College, New Ulm, MN. Interim Executive Director of the Mankato Symphony, 2019-2020, Executive Director starting March 2020.

Susan Billmeyer

Brooks Piano, Harpsichord, and Celesta Chair, Minnesota Orchestra

Christopher Brody

Assistant Professor of Theory at the University of Louisville, Kentucky.

Wayne Ching

University of the Incarnate Word (guest faculty and collaborative artist from 2021 and Classical Music Institute, San Antonio, TX, Artist-Educator Fellowship Program Coordinator).

Yung-Eun Choe

Southeastern University Lakeland, Florida from 2006 - 2009, University of Guam beginning Aug. 2018.

Hyunsoo Cho

Myung-ji University, Seoul, Korea

Soohyun Cho

Kyungnam University, Masan, South Korea

Eunhye Grace Choi

Northeast Center for Music, Minneapolis and North Hennepin Community College, Minneapolis

Sophie Christian

Clark College, Vancouver, WA

Shih-Yu Chuang

National Hsinchu University of Education, Taiwan

Alejandro Cremaschi

University of Colorado at Boulder

Loren Fishman

Carleton College, MN

Corey Hamm

University of British Columbia, Vancouver

Seongwon Han

Kyung-Buk National University and Taegu National University, Taegu, Korea

Hiyas Hila

East Bay Center for the Performing Arts and Vibo Music Center, San Francisco, CA.

Kevin Hobbs

North Hennepin Community College, Minneapolis; Visiting Piano Literature, Keyboard Skills, and Class Piano Lecturer, University of Minnesota (2014-16); Mount Calvary Academy of Music, MN; Visiting Professor Gustavus Adolphus College, 2014

Jessica Hueiyi Hong

Private Teaching, Woodbury MN

Grace Huang

Millikin University, Decatur, Illinois from 2006 - 2009; Cleveland Institute of Music 2009-2016; Assistant Professor of Piano and Piano Pedagogy University of Georgia-Athens beginning 2017.

Jikang Jung

Chong-Shin University, Seoul, Korea

Jeonglim Kim

Music Director, Minnehaha Communion Lutheran Church and private teacher, Minneapolis

Jiye Kim

Joomi Kim

Sunwha Arts School, Sam-Yuk University and Han-Se University, Seoul, Korea

Min Jung Kim

Soyoun Kim

Young Kim

College of St. Rose, Albany, NY (from 2000-2021), Skidmore College, NY (from 2021-) www.pianistyoungkim.com.

Miroslava Kisilevitch

MacPhail Conservatory and North Central College, Minneapolis, through 2014. Westmont College, CA from 2021.

Vincent Lam

Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas

Alison Lee

Hyeyoung Lee

Dean of the Piano Department at Sook-Myung University, Seoul, Korea

Fanya Lin

Visiting Lecturer of Piano at U of M, Twin Cities 2018-19 and Visiting Assistant Professor of Piano, University of Arizona-Tucson, from 2019.

Pei-Lei Lin

University of Jinan School of Music, China


Tzu-Ching Lin

National Taipei University, Taipei, Taiwan, beginning 2012

Shannon Loehrke

Century College, Minneapolis, MN and adjunct Professor of Piano at the College of St. John, Collegeville, MN, through 2015. Host and Interviewer for “The Capitol Report,” PBS television, weekly program.

Matthew McCright

Carleton College, Northfield, MN

David Oliver

Shorter College, Rome, Georgia

Woobin Park

Visiting Professor Winona State University, MN 2013-14, George Washington University, Chestertown, MD from 2015

Soyoung Park

Andong National University, Andong, South Korea (from 2021)

Gabriel Quenneville-Bélair

Piano faculty, Bellissimo Music Academy, Toronto Canada

Daniel Rieppel

Southwest Minnesota State University Marshall, MN

Minjeong Shin

Myung-ji University, Seoul, South Korea


Wonny Song

Lambda School of Music and the Fine Arts, Montreal, and winner of the 2005 YCA auditions. Artistic Director of the Orford Art Centre, Quebec, beginning 2016.

Maria Fernanda Trocan

Academy of Music, St. Francis in the Fields, Louisville, KY

Marina Veiler

New Music School, Chicago IL

Megan Monahan Wallace

Private teaching, St. Louis Park, MN.

Christopher Wallace

Music Director St. David’s, MN

Stephanie Wendt

www.goldenwattle.net

 

Wonny Song, Lydia, Gary Graffman, and Andrew Staupe

Andrew and Lydia following their performance of the Mozart Concerto for Two Pianos with the MN Orchestra, Jan. 12, 2011.

Wonny Song, Lydia, Gary Graffman, and Andrew Staupe

Three generations of pianists meet onstage at Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis in March 2003 for a Master Class with Gary Graffman.

From left to right: Wonny Song (DMA 2005), Lydia, Gary Graffman (Lydia’s teacher and mentor), and Andrew Staupe (MM 2007). Lydia is holding a photo taken of her with Mr. Graffman in 1967 in Philadelphia by Adrian Siegel.

Wonny Song and Lydia

Wonny Song and Lydia, Orchestra Hall, 2003

“Romance” from Rachmaninoff’s Suite No. 2 for Two Pianos, Op. 17,

Photos credit: Greg Helgeson

 

MM graduates include:

Sandra Arndt

Adjunct Professor at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU), Murfreesboro, TN

Hyeree Chung Roux

Maryland Conservatory of Music,private teaching in Houston

Margaret McDonald

University of Colorado at Boulder

Andrew Staupe

University of Houston, TX beginning 2019, University of Utah from 2016-2019. Gingrich Arts Management. andrewstaupe.com

First Prize Winner of the 2006 WAMSO Competition; Pro Musicis International Competition, New York, 2011. Pro Musicis presented Andrew in recitals in NY and Boston in 2012. Andrew joined the roster of Gingrich Arts Management in NY in Sept. 2012.
andrewstaupe.com

 

BM graduates include:

Jennifer Needleman Muniz

Indiana University South Bend

Aimee Tsuchiya

Chair, New England Conservatory Preparatory School and School for Continuing Education and Winsor School, Boston, MA.

Tyler Wottrich

Completed DMA at Stony Brook University, 2013
Tyler joined the Academy and was a member of Ensemble ACJW from 2012-2014.

Associate Professor of Collaborative Piano at North Dakota State University, Fargo

 

Other Notable Student Successes

Dr. Yu-Jane Yang

Presidential Professor of Piano, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah

Dr. Sora Oh (private student from 2000-2003)

Assistant Professor of Piano at New Jersey City University.
BM and MM degrees Juilliard, DMA Eastman.

Elise Bonner

BM, summa cum laude, 2008, completed her Ph.d in Musicology at Princeton University.

Mark Mazullo

Professor of Musicology and Piano at Macalester College, St. Paul, MN