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Huang Jianyi
Piano
Pianist/composer Huang Jian Yi has been a music
educator and Art Director at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, where he also
received Bachelor¡¯s degree in Piano Performance. He founded the Footprints Jazz Band in 1999, one of the first
modern Chinese jazz groups in Shanghai.
He has studied jazz piano at the Berklee College of Music with such
greats as Paul Schmeling, Ray Santisi, Joanne Brackeen, Laszlo Gardony and Joe
Lovano. Currently, he is completing his
Master¡¯s degree in Jazz Performance at Rutgers University, where he is studying
with Stanley Cowell, Victor Lewis, Ralph Bowen and Conrad Herwig. He has performed in New York¡¯s Blue Note
club, as well as most recently at the Montreal Jazz Festival with the Possicobilities
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