Dr. Julia I studied with Professor John Perry at the R. D. Colburn School of Performing Arts and received her DMA at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Having won many competitions and awards, including the Bronislaw Kaper Awards, she was invited to perform Mozart Piano Concerto in G Major, K.453 with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. Some of her performance highlights included collaborating in a duo concert with violinist Shlomo Mintz at the National Concert Hall in Taiwan, and performing Beethoven Piano Concerto No.4 in G Major with the National Symphony Orchestra at the invitation of the Taiwanese Presidential Palace. Dr. I has made recital and concerto appearances in the United States, Taiwan, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, China, Hong Kong, Italy, Austria, Holland, Belgium, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, and has conducted piano master classes in many cities in Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, and China. Dr. I has served on piano faculty at the Wayne State University and was the Assistant Director at Schoolcraft College Piano Academy in Michigan. She also taught as full-time piano faculty at the Pennsylvania Academy of Music in Lancaster, as well as on faculty at Lebanon Valley College in PA. Recent performances include participating in the complete cycle of Beethoven’s Sonatas for Piano and Violin in Taipei, solo recitals in China, and Mozart Piano Concerto K.450 and Chopin Piano Concerto in e minor with the Bratislava State Orchestra in Vienna, Austria, and most recently the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No.1 in National Concert Hall in Taiwan.
“She displayed considerable finger dexterity, clear articulation and a self-assured manner. Her interpretation was bold and forthright, and her lyrical passages had a certain charm.”
The Business Times, Singapore
“Julia was brilliant, attacking and feinting with both technical virtuosity and emotion; her playing was filled with inner passion…. One could feel the nationalistic pride and dignity in her Chopin Polonaises. She was magnificent on every piece, her fingers achieving a graceful pianissimo or a thundering glissando.”
Business World, The Philippines
“In the [Rachmaninoff] Sonata, Julia showed the entire range of her pianistic knowledge, the capacity to create one line from the first to the last note of the piece, the comprehension and illumination of the whole form and architecture of the sonata, and also the gift to toy with the pulse of the music with playful ease. Remarkable also was the enormous dynamic range, from the beauty of her pianissimo sound to the powerful but cultivated fortissimo, as well as the clarity of her playing which was such that even in the most extremely virtuoso passages nothing was missed.”
Rhein Zeitung, Cochem am Mosel (The Rhein Newspaper, Germany)
