Beyond the Masterclass

Good morning! Welcome to our "Meet the Artist Series".
This Sunday, we are thrilled to introduce Collaborative Pianist Mitsuko Morikawa:

Pianist Mitsuko Morikawa has been an active soloist, coach, collaborative pianist and chamber musician in United States as well as in Asia. She has collaborated with highly acclaimed musicians from a wide variety of genres spanning instrumental music, opera, musical theater and choral ensembles. Some of the artists that Ms. Morikawa has performed with include Julia Migenes, Rodney Gilfry, Kristinn Sigmundsson, TimothyMussard, Michel Debost, James Walker, Denis Bouriakov, Leone Buyse, Carol Wincenc, Jean Ferrandis, Marianne Gedigian, Martin Chalifour, Roberto Cani, David Rejano Cantero, Megumi Kanda, Randy Hawes, and Timothy Higgins. Ms. Morikawa has also recorded music for the New World Records label and has been featured on radio programs such as KUSC, WCLV, Cleveland and NHK-FM, Japan.

Apart from her accomplishments as a performer, Ms. Morikawa has also distinguished herself as a unique and highly regarded coach/accompanist. She has served on the faculties at Occidental College, Santa Monica College, the Meadowmount School of Music, Idyllwild Arts Academy Summer Program, National Flute Association Annual Convention, National Cello Institute, Beyond the Masterclass with Jim Walker at Colburn School, Oberlin College Conservatory, the Oberlin Flute Institute, Baldwin Wallace College Conservatory and the ENCORE School of Strings. She is currently working at the California State University Los Angeles, Colburn School, UCLA and Los Angeles Children’s Chorus.

Ms. Morikawa’s degrees consist of a B.M. in piano performance from the Toho School of Music, Japan, an M.M. in piano performance from the Manhattan School of Music, a Professional Studies Certificate in piano performance from The Cleveland Institute of Music and a D.M.A. in Keyboard Collaborative Arts at the University of Southern California. Some of Ms. Morikawa’s teachers include Alan Smith, Norman Krieger, Sergei Babayan, Cheng-Zong Yin, Paul Schenly, Sara Davis Buechner and Hisako Ueno.

Happy Sunday! Welcome back to our "Meet the Artist Series".
Today, let's welcome Collaborative Pianist Vivian Fan:

Dr. Vivian Fan coaches chamber music and coordinates collaborative pianists at the Colburn Conservatory of Music and Music Academy. Prior to this position, she was on the piano faculty at the Idyllwild Arts Academy. She has collaborated in recitals with artists such as Arnold Steinhardt, Wen-Sinn Yang, Andrew Bain, and Sang Yoon Kim. As a duo and trio pianist, she performed at Perlman Music Program Alumni Recital Series in 2012 and at Disney Hall in Los Angeles Philharmonic’s “Brahms Unbound” concert in 2011. She recorded with renowned violist Paul Coletti on Paul Chihara’s Sonata released by Bridge Records in 2013. A new album “Bloch, Glinka, Bowen: Viola Works” with Coletti’s current and former students was released in October 2015 on Soundset Records.

Dr. Fan has served as an accompanist at the 2013 Nielsen Clarinet Competition in Denmark, the 2013 ARD Viola Competition in Münich, and the 2016 Piatogorvsky Cello Festival. In summer 2015, Dr. Fan was invited to coach at the Central Conservatory of Music Middle School in Beijing, to coordinate pianists and perform at the International Horn Symposium held at Colburn, and to perform as a workshop pianist for Jim Walker’s Beyond the Masterclass flute workshop. She has taught a masterclass at the National Taiwan Normal University. This summer, Dr .Fan will be giving a lecture as well as a masterclass on accompanying at Music Teachers’ Association of California Convention.

As a solo pianist, Dr. Fan has performed with conductors Jorge Mester, Jung Ho Pak, Mario Miragliotta, Sharon Lavery, Peter Askim, and Marc Riley. Her solo and chamber performances have been broadcasted on KTLA and KNBC television as well as KUSC, WFMT, and “Performance Today” on APM radio.

Dr. Fan has a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the USC Thornton School of Music majoring in Piano Performance. Her minor fields are Music Education, Piano Pedegogy, and Electro-Acoustic Media. She also has a M.M. and B.M. in Piano Performance from USC.