Since 1989, Lydia Artymiw has been on the faculty of the University of Minnesota School of Music in Minneapolis, which honored her with the “Dean’s Medal” for Outstanding Professor in 2000 and with the Distinguished McKnight Professorship in 2001. She was the first performing artist at the University of Minnesota to receive both of these awards. Artymiw’s studio (with 35 doctoral 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. Wonny Song and Andrew 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 under the direction of Osmo Vanska at Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis on Jan. 12 and Jan. 14, 2011.
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.
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Doctoral graduates:
Jeri-Mae Astolfi
(University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh)
Susan Billmeyer
(Brooks Piano, Harpsichord, and Celesta Chair, Minnesota Orchestra)
Christopher Brody
(DMA 2007 in Piano Performance,Ph.d in Music Theory, Yale University, 2012)
Yung-Eun Choe
(Southeastern University Lakeland, Florida from 2006 - 2009)
Hyunsoo Cho
(Myung-ji University, Seoul, Korea)
Soohyun Cho
(Kyungnam University, Masan, South Korea)
Sophie Christian
(Inver Grove Hills Community College)
Shih-Yu Chuang
(Private Teaching, Taiwan)
Alejandro Cremaschi
(University of Colorado at Boulder)
Loren Fishman
(St. Cloud State University)
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.)
Jessica Hueiyi Hong
(Private Teaching, Woodbury MN)
Grace Huang
(Millikin University, Decatur, Illinois from 2006 - 2009; Cleveland Institute of Music beginning 2009)
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)
Young Kim
(College of St. Rose, Albany, NY) www.pianistyoungkim.com
Miroslava Kisilevitch
(MacPhail Conservatory and North Central College, Minneapolis)
Vincent Lam
(Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas)
Hyeyoung Lee
(Suk-Myung University, Seoul, Korea)
Tzu-Ching Lin
(Tzu-Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan)
Shannon Loehrke
(Century College, Minneapolis, MN and adjunct Professor of Piano at the College of St. John, Collegeville, MN)
Matthew McCright
(Carleton College, Northfield, MN)
David Oliver
(Shorter College, Rome, Georgia)
Woobin Park
(Towson University, Harford Community College, Gilman School, MD, Levine School of Music, Washington DC)
Daniel Rieppel
(Southwest Minnesota State University Marshall, MN)
Wonny Song
(Lambda School of Music and the Fine Arts, Montreal, and winner of the 2005 YCA auditions)
Maria Fernanda Trocan
(Academy of Music, St. Francis in the Fields, Louisville, KY)
Marina Veiler
(New Music School, Chicago IL)
Megan Monahan Wallace
Christopher Wallace
(Music Director St. David’s, MN)
Stephanie Wendt
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Andrew and Lydia following their performance of the Mozart Concerto for Two Pianos with the MN Orchestra, Jan. 12, 2011.
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, Orchestra Hall, 2003
“Romance” from Rachmaninoff’s Suite No. 2 for Two Pianos, Op. 17,
Photos credit: Greg Helgeson