Pianist Ann Yi is an active soloist and chamber musician in the Bay Area, who has a broad range of musical interests, with a repertoire ranging from Baroque to contemporary music. Ann is currently a doctoral candidate in piano performance at Indiana University. She studied principally with Evelyne Brancart, and also with Jean-Louis Haguenauer, Karen Shaw, Alfred Kanwischer and Jonathan Bass. As a soloist and chamber musician, Ann has appeared in the sfSound Concert Series in San Francisco, the strictly Ballroom Concert Series at Stanford, and the Musica Viva Concert Series at Joliet College in Illinois, the Music Now and From Almost Yesterday Concert Series at University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and at the Community Music Center in San Francisco as a recipient of the Shenson Faculty Artist Grant.

Ann has an ongoing commitment to championing works by contemporary composers and has participated in the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in Darmstadt, Germany, and the Music from the Edge New Music Festival at Stanford University.  In addition to giving numerous premieres of solo and chamber works by American and European composers, her performances of Mark Applebaum’s Meditation for piano for 6 hands is featured on the Tzadik records release, Catfish, and Christopher Burn’s duo for piano and percussion, Xerox Book, and Jose Pareja’s solo piano, Red Threads For Desire, are featured on the Innova Records release, <541> Music from Stanford Vol.1.

Ann has won several awards including the Young Artist Award Competition, the Mu Phi Epsilon Scholarship Competition and the Olympiad of the Arts Competition. She is currently a faculty member at Cañada College, Skyline College and the San Francisco Community Music Center. Ann lives in San Francisco with her husband, Christopher Jones and daughter, Sonya.