Schedule

3:00pm Lecture by Dr. Yu-Jane Yang

Effective Practicing: Transformative Practice Strategies to Develop Confident Musicians

4:00pm Masterclass with Dr. Yu-Jane Yang

5:00pm Masterclass with UArizona piano faculty

6:00pm Q&A + Dinner 

7:00pm Final Round of the 14th Annual Michael Moore Memorial Piano Competition 

8:30pm Award Ceremony

Register Fee: $20

Dr. Yu-Jane Yang

Dr. Yu-Jane Yang is a Brady Presidential Distinguished Professor, Endowed Scholar/Artist of the Lindquist College of Arts & Humanities, and the Director of Keyboard Studies at Weber State University. Dr. Yang is the national recipient of the prestigious Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) Teacher of the Year award in 2020, recognized with the Steinway Top Teacher Award (2022), inducted to the Steinway Teacher Hall of Fame in New York (2021), named an MTNA Foundation Fellow (2011), and bestowed with the honor of the Utah Music Teachers Association (UMTA) Legacy Award (2010). Most recently, Dr. Yang was selected to receive the esteemed 2023 Utah Governor’s Mansion Artist Award presented by Governor Spencer Cox and First Lady Abby Cox in Sep, 2023.

Much in demand as a presenter, performer, and master class teacher, Yu-Jane has given numerous piano workshops, master classes, and concert performances in Austria, Poland, Norway, Spain, Italy, Germany, Singapore, China, Taiwan, the Philippines, Canada, and the United States. Dr. Yang was the featured 2022 MTNA National Conference masterclass teacher for the Intermediate Piano Master Class. Dr. Yang and her husband Dr. Shi-Hwa Wang were invited to be the featured national conference concert artists performing as the Formosan Violin-Piano Duo at the jam-packed Opening Session Concert of the 2023 MTNA National Conference in Reno, Nevada. Dr. Yang also appears frequently as an adjudicator for piano competitions nationally and internationally, including judging the MTNA Competition National Finals, MTNA Division Competitions, the California and Nevada state solo and concerto piano competitions, International Young Artist Piano Competition in Washington D.C., and the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition preliminary auditions.

Dr. Yang’s piano students have been top prizewinners in both collegiate and pre-college divisions in numerous state, national and international piano competitions, including the national first place winner of the 2010 MTNA Steinway Young Artist Piano Competition and the 2020 Gilmore Young Artist Award national winner. Yu-Jane’s piano students at Weber State University have received piano scholarships for graduate studies from world-renowned music schools such as the Juilliard School, Eastman School of Music, the University of Michigan, Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, and the Cleveland Institute of Music. Yu-Jane’s pedagogy students at Weber State University have also won state and national recognitions for their outstanding teaching, including seven state winners of the UMTA Collegiate Student Teacher of the Year, one national winner of the MTNA Studio Teaching Fellowship and four-time national winners of the MTNA Collegiate Chapter of the Year.