피아노 이 동
피아노 이 동 (Eathan Yi Dong)
Professional Profile:
Over 25 years of piano teaching experience with students accepted into schools such as
Juilliard, New England Conservatory, Eastman, Peabody, Yale University as piano majors with
full scholarship offers.
In, 2015, as the president of Lake Como USA International Foundation, brought the
award-winning International Piano Academy Lake Como from Italy, to Oberlin Conservatory and
established the Oberlin/Lake Como Joint Program (One of the program’s fellows Bruce Liu was
recently awarded the Gold Medal at the Warsaw Chopin International Piano Competition).
In 2022, as a special consultant to the United Nations, established a joint venture, partnership
between Oberlin College Conservatory and United Nations Institute for Training and Research
(UNITAR).
An entrepreneurial spirit in key leadership positions of numerous organizations.
Core Skills:
● Curriculum development
● Training development
● Policy development
● Budget analysis
● Piano Pedagogy
● Educational software integration
● Software team management
● Fundraising for nonprofit organizations
Education and Qualifications:
● Yale School of Music – Master of Music Performance 2000
● New England Conservatory of Music – Bachelor of Music Performance 1998
Career Summary:
● 2007-Present President: Opus119 School of Music | Music School
● 2020-Present CEO: Opus Forte | Music Software Development
● 2019-Present Founder & President: Opus Music Foundation | 501C3 Non-Profit
● 2016-Present Board of Advisors of the International Piano Academy Lake Como,
Italy
● 2015-Present Piano Faculty: Oberlin Conservatory Summer Music Festival
● 2013-2017 Director of the Elizabeth Mandell Music Institute (EMMI) of the
Crossroads School (K12)
● 2010-2016 President: Lake Como USA International Piano Foundation
(501C3 Non-Profit)
● 2005-2008 President: Music Teacher Association of California Orange County
North Branch (501C3 Non-Profit)
● 2003-2007 Founder and President: The Piano Corner Inc.
IT Certification and Skills：
● Microsoft Certified Professional + Internet (2000)
● Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (2000)
● Website development
● Network deployment
Awards:
● The President’s Volunteer Service Award – President Joe Biden, 2021
● Heida Hermanns International Music Competition – 1st Prize, 1996
● East West International Piano Competition – 1st Prize, 1996
Piano Student Achievements:
● Anne Liu – 2019 US Presidential Scholar of the Arts, Juilliard/Columbia Full-Scholarship
Recipient
● Allison To – Grand prize winner of Third Tureck International Bach Competition, Stanford
and Oberlin College Full Scholarship Recipient, 2019
● Adrian Liao – Winner of YoungArts and Spotlight Award, New England Conservatory of
Music 2016
● Phoebe Pan – Winner of YoungArts and Spotlight Award, Columbia University, 2015
● Dennis Fang – Gold Medalist of Los Angeles Liszt Competition, Stanford University, 2012
Faculty at the 92nd Street Y, USA
미국 92번가 Y 출강
Faculty at the Bard College Conservatory of Music, USA
미국 바드 칼리지 음악대학 출강
Born in Siberia, Luba Poliak made her debut playing Mozart concerto with the Novosibirsk Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of eleven. In 1990, she immigrated to Israel, where she continued her studies and graduated magna cum laude from the Rubin Academy in Tel Aviv. She studied in Brussels and earned her master’s degree with honors at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. Ms. Poliak completed her doctorate in 2008 at Stony Brook University, where she worked and coached with Gilbert Kalish, Pamela Frank, Ida Kavafian, Colin Carr, and members of The Emerson String Quartet. After winning the Stony Brook Concerto Competition in 2004, Ms. Poliak performed with the Stony Brook Symphony, conducted by David Stern. The same year her performances at the Sydney competition were aired on ABC Classic FM in Australia.
Luba Poliak has been performing solo and chamber music recitals across North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia at the venues such as Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles, Belgium; Jordan Hall, Boston; Dame Myra Hess Concert Memorial Series, Chicago, IL; 92nd Street Y and Harvard Club, New York City; Bulgarian Embassy, Washington D.C.; Dudley Hall, Houston; and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Ms. Poliak has received numerous grants from the America Israel Cultural Foundation and was a fellow at such music festivals as Aspen, Colorado, Verbier, Switzerland, and the exclusive “German for Singers and Vocal Coaches” program at Middlebury College, Vermont.
Dedicated to the music education of the younger generation, Ms. Poliak was invited to give master classes and lecture-recitals at Fort Hays State University in Kansas, the University of Houston, and Lehman College in New York. During fall 2010, and spring 2013 semesters, Ms. Poliak served as a full-time visiting piano faculty at Lawrence University in Wisconsin. She was invited again for an intensive weekend of a solo recital, a technique workshop, and a master class in the fall of 2013. Luba Poliak teaches and performs regularly at such festivals as the Texas Music Festival at the University of Houston, Heifetz Music Festival, Bowdoin Festival, and Bard College Piano Camp. In addition to being on the faculty of the Bard Conservatory Preparatory division, Ms. Poliak is also a piano faculty at the 92nd Street Y school of music in New York and a chamber music coach at the New York Youth Symphony Chamber Music Program.