Yumi Suehiro, Piano

Born in Osaka, Japan, Pianist Yumi Suehiro started piano at age 6, and started marimba a year later. Ms. Suehiro has won numerous national and international competitions, including the top prize at the KOBE International Competition in Japan as the youngest winner. In 2007 and 2008, she was invited to perform her debut at the Carnegie Weill recital hall as a winner of AMTL audition. 

In 2008, she performed at Steinway hall as an honorable student at Amati music festival, and was featured as a guest marimba player in Latin percussionist, Victor Rendon's recoding “Fiesta Percussiva. In 2010, Ms. Suehiro won the second prize at Dora Zaslavsky Koch piano concerto competition in Manhattan School of Music. In the following year, she was chosen to perform for the world famous pianist Pirre-Laurent Aimard.

Ms. Suehiro graduated from Lehman College, received B.S. majoring music with honor Magma cum Laude, where she studied percussion with Mr. Morris Lang, who was the associated principal timpanist and percussionist in New York Philharmonic, and composition with Mr. John Corigliano, and had featured as a soloist as both pianist and marimba player (playing Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue and Nesauro's Marimba Concerto) in Lehman community band. Ms. Suehiro later received M.M. in classical piano performance where she studied with Mr. Zenon Fishbein and Dr. Peter Vinograde. 

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