Kuei Pin Yeo is a classical pianist and educator from
Indonesia. She earned Indonesia's first doctorate in music.
Early life
She was born in
Jakarta
Jakarta (; , bew, Jakarte), officially the Special Capital Region of Jakarta ( id, Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta) is the capital and largest city of Indonesia. Lying on the northwest coast of Java, the world's most populous island, Jakarta ...
, Indonesia and later earned a full scholarship to the
Manhattan School of Music
The Manhattan School of Music (MSM) is a private music conservatory in New York City. The school offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in the areas of classical and jazz performance and composition, as well as a bachelor's in mu ...
in
New York City, where she received the Bachelor of Music (1976), Master of Music (1978), Master of music Education (1979) and Doctor of Musical Arts (1981) degrees. She became the first Indonesian to earn a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in piano. Yeo was a grantee of the
John D. Rockefeller 3rd Fund/
Asian Cultural Council and
Helena Rubinstein Foundation for many years.
Accolades
''
The New York Times'' hailed her as "both polished technician and responsive musician" and praised her "elegantly detailed...immaculate, musically direct interpretation" following her
Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall ( ) is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City. It is at 881 Seventh Avenue (Manhattan), Seventh Avenue, occupying the east side of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street (Manhattan), 56th and 57th Street (Manhatta ...
debut. Other critics have called her as a "fantastic pianist!" because she 'handled the virtuoso complexity with a magnificent beauty and deep sensitivity'. The ''
Jakarta Post'' said "To describe Kuei Pin Yeo's technique as amazing is putting it rather mildly".
Yeo's list of accomplishment includes winning the
Harold Bauer Award, founding
Jakarta Music School, Camerata di Musica Jakarta, serving as artistic and music director of ASEAN International Concerto Competition and performing at Jakarta International Summer Music Festival. She has been on most TV stations in
Indonesia and
Singapore and was interviewed and performed in
WQXR,
WNCN of
New York City, and
Voice of America in
Washington DC. She is on the jury of many international competitions.
References
External links
Biography of Dr. Kuei Pin YeoYayasan Musik Jakarta
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Indonesian pianists
Indonesian women pianists
Musicians from Jakarta
Indonesian people of Chinese descent
Living people
Asian Cultural Council grantees
21st-century pianists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Women classical pianists
Indonesian music educators
Indonesian women music educators
20th-century Indonesian women educators
20th-century Indonesian educators
21st-century Indonesian educators
21st-century Indonesian women educators