Noriko Schneiderman will perform a classical piano solo recital, also with a five string violist Jing Yang. The program will include works of Brahms, Poulenc, Ravel, Schubert and Schumann.
This event is sponsored by the Friends of the Bridgewater Library.
Limited space available - first come, first served. Doors will open at 6:45 pm.
Performer: Noriko Schneiderman, a native of Japan, studied in Tokyo and graduated from the Musashino Academia Musicae. In 1989, she came to study piano pedagogy at the New School for Music Study, Kingston, NJ
under Frances Clark and Louise Goss. After receiving the certificate in Piano Pedagogy, she served as asenior faculty member there for five years. Noriko has been a guest faculty member at the Goshen College Summer Workshops in Indiana, and a board member of the New Jersey Music Teachers Association for six years. She has taught piano at the Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville, NJ for 27 years. Noriko is an active performer as a soloist and a chamber music musician. As a concerto soloist, she has performed with Princeton Community Orchestra, Princeton, NJ, and Miyamae Junior String Orchestra, Tokyo, Japan. The musicians she collaborated with include The Kende Trio, Zachary Mowitz, Dallas Noble, Tim Brown, John Lane, Chika Mimura, and Mika Sato. In 2018, she and her friends formed a group called PolyVoce (Soprano, Mezzo soprano, Tenor, Baritone, and two pianists) and they have performed in NJ and PA. She also regularly accompanies many young musicians at their competitions, auditions, recordings, and recitals. Noriko has performed in Austria, France, Japan, and the United States.
Performer: Jing Yang is originally from music island, Kulangsu, China and moved to Montgomery, NJ in 2024. She has toured and performed in more than 50 countries. Jing became the associate principal violist of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony at 26, won international viola competitions, chaired the viola department at Xiamen University, released a CD album "Kulangsu: Through the Strings of Time" and toured as a soloist. She founded Studio Vio, served as president of the Chinese String Musicians' Association, and was a Fellow of the U.S. China Young Leaders' Forum. She studied viola at Shanghai Conservatory of Music and earned two master's degrees in viola from the Royal Academy of Music in London and the Mozarteum University of Salzburg.