Yulia Lipmanovich
“…There is power and warmth in her playing and she has much experience in all sorts of music making…”
-Ian Hobson, Professor of Music
ABOUT DR. YULIA LIPMANOVICH
As a very young child, Dr. Yulia studied with her mother, Madame Luba Lipmanovich-Yackobishvili, who was an outstanding pianist and a great teacher. Later she studied with well-known Russian pianist Tatiana Nickolayeva in Moscow Tchaickovsky Pre-Conservatory.
Dr. Yulia Lipmanovich holds a Bachelor of Music Degree in Piano Performance from the Juilliard School of Music in New York. She was a protégé student of the legendary pianist Madame Rosina Lhevinne, the teacher of Van Clibern, who brought her from Israel to Juilliard School. Yulia lived at Madame Rosina Lhevinne’s home and had daily lessons with the legendary teacher.
She received a master’s degree from the Rubin Academy of Music of the Tel Aviv University in Israel where she studied on a full scholarship awarded by the University. She was awarded her Doctorate in Piano Performance in 1998 under the guidance of Ian Hobson from the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. Among her teachers were Anthony di Bonaventura and Rudolfo Caporally.
Dr. Lipmanovich won the Piano Competition of the Soviet Composers (Moscow) and the Tenth Annual Young Artists International Competition (New York) where she was a winner among 300 contestants. She was recognized as an outstanding young performer and was named Collegiate All-American Scholar in the National Collegiate Academy Honorary Book.
When in Israel, she was a member of the Trio Bor, who were members of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, and appeared in numerous concerts. She performed as a soloist with orchestras and in solo recitals. She performed for an audience of 30 foreign ambassadors and appeared on radio and television. Dr. Yulia Lipmanovich gave numerous Piano Master Classes in Israel including Master Classes at the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music Clairmont Hall of Tel Aviv University in Israel and gave solo recitals.
Dr. Yulia Lipmanovich has been invited to give concerts, teach, and judge local and international competitions. Among many. She was a Member of the Jury for the 6th Mozart International Piano Competition and Fifth Chopin International Piano Competition in Thailand, where she also gave Master Classes and Solo Performances.Dr. Lipmanovich taught Master Classes in Magihol University in Bangkok Thailand. She has been a Piano Faculty Member at the Summer Music Festival of the Gulf in San Marco, Italy since 2013. She was the Honorary President of the Jury of the Madame Rosina Lhevinne Piano International Competition held in San Marco, Italy. In 2018, she was on a Piano Faculty and gave solo performances at Ameropa Music Arts Festival “Musical Bridges” in St. Petersburg, Russia and will be teaching and performing there again in August 2019. She has taught on the piano faculties of the Boston Conservatory, Boston College, Northeastern University, Daley College, Rubin Conservatory of Music in Jerusalem in Israel.
Dr. Yulia Lipmanovich is on a Piano Faculty at the Interharmony International Music Festival held in Italy and Germany. She is also on a piano faculty at the Summer Music Festival of the Gulf held each summer in August in San Marco, Italy where she is teaching and performing.
Dr. Yulia has performed in major concert halls as a soloist and with orchestras and chamber groups throughout the USA, Canada, Russia, Europe, Israel, Thailand, China, and Italy and venues in the USA such as Carnegie Recital Hall, Alice Tully Hall and Steinway Hall. Among them, she performed an All Chopin Program at the Trinity Church in London, and at Saint Martins in the Fields. She performed Chopin Piano Concerto No. 1 & No. 2 with the Kirov Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra with Chief Conductor Maestro Valery Raevsky. She gave numerous performances in Chicago. Among them were Solo Recitals of All Chopin Favorites at the Studebaker Theater and Chicago Cultural Center and many other concert halls
Dr. Lipmanovich was appointed by The Juilliard School to teach piano in the After School Arts program with Juilliard Nord Anglia Performing Arts program at the British International School of Chicago in the South Loop. She is a member of the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) and Chicago Area Music Teachers Association (CAMTA).
Dr. Yulia received the prestigious honor to be a Partner of the Steinway Educational Program. She is actively teaching at her studio at the Fine Arts Building downtown Chicago and is the Executive Director and Founder of The Art of Piano Playing and Performing Arts, Inc.
Her Chicago piano studio is in partnership with the Chicago Park District Ondian Boundary Cultural Center.
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The Art of Piano Playing, Programs are designed for all ages and all levels, starting from age 6 years old, college preparatory, adults, and performing artists. I offer seminars for music teachers and master classes, as well as prepare performers for concerts and competitions. All my students enjoy the opportunity to have piano lessons in a studio and / or live online via Skype.