Free Library Concert Sunday – music of Teresa Teng

Central Library

Shih-Yi Kuan (管士怡) majored in voice and piano at a teachers college in Taiwan. After graduation, she taught music in a public school for six years while conducting children’s choirs which won awards and toured Korea and Japan. She then studied at a conservatory in Graz, Austria: the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst. Her teachers included Lilian Sukis, Gerhard Zeller, and Roberta Knie. Shih-Yi graduated, with distinction, with a diploma in Lieder and Oratorio and another diploma in Opera Performance. At the Meistersinger Competition at the American Institute of Music in Graz, Shih-Yi was awarded the Audience Prize (first place) and received third place from the jury. Since 1996 Shih-Yi has been teaching voice and piano near Mill Creek–where she lives with her husband and dog. She is a member of the Edmonds Music Teachers Association, the Washington State Music Teachers Association and the Music Teachers National Association.

Pianist Jason S. Kuo (郭士永) studied with Martha Wasley at the University of California at Berkeley and was later coached by Janet Guggenheim, whose worldwide concert credits included over thirty years of collaboration with the celebrated violinist Itzhak Perlman. Jason performed in public masterclasses of Richard Goode and the late Karl Schnabel while residing in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has been performing actively as an accompanist and a chamber musician. Jason also performs as the keyboard member of the Northwest Symphony and the Octava Chamber Orchestra. He maintains teaching studios in Seattle, Bothell, and Bellevue.