2015 Excellence in Graduate and Professional Teaching Award, University of Minnesota
2001 Distinguished McKnight Professor, University of Minnesota
2000 Dean’s Medal, University of Minnesota
From August 1989 to June 2020, Lydia Artymiw was on the faculty of the University of Minnesota School of Music in Minneapolis, which honored her with the 2015 “Excellence in Graduate and Professional Teaching Award,” the “Distinguished McKnight Professorship” in 2001, and the 2000 “Dean’s Medal” for Outstanding Professor. She is the first and only performing artist at the University of Minnesota’s School of Music to receive all three of these awards. Artymiw now holds Emerita status at the University of Minnesota.
Artymiw’s studio (with 48 DMA graduates, 20 MM graduates, and 9 BM graduates) is one of the most prolific and successful at the University of Minnesota, and her students have attained international careers as performers and professors at universities and colleges throughout the US, Canada, and Asia. Two of Lydia Artymiw’s former students have been First Prize winners of the WAMSO Minnesota Orchestra Competition: Wonny Song in 2001 (who also won the Grand Award) and Andrew Staupe in 2006. Song and Staupe were invited to perform with the Minnesota Orchestra after winning the WAMSO, and both were re-engaged for subscription series concerts with the Minnesota Orchestra in subsequent seasons. The Minnesota Orchestra invited Andrew Staupe and Lydia Artymiw to perform the Mozart Concerto for Two Pianos, K. 365 under the direction of Osmo Vänskä at Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis in January 2011. In January 2015, Artymiw’s PSEO student at the University of Minnesota, Zhen Tu, was the First and Grand Prize winner of the Minnesota Orchestra’s YPSCA Competition, resulting in eight Children’s Concerts performances with the Minnesota Orchestra at Orchestra Hall.
In May 2019 Artymiw was appointed Honorary Professor of Piano at the China Central Conservatory in Beijing. Since 2015, Artymiw has also been a frequent guest piano teacher at the Juilliard School in New York, working with students of Veda Kaplinsky and Matti Raekallio.
From the Minneapolis Star Tribune (January 14,2011):
“The Mozart Concerto for Two Pianos (with Osmo Vänskä conducting the Minnesota Orchestra) featured veteran Lydia Artymiw and her former student, Andrew Staupe. The soloists traded phrases back and forth in a dialogue that revealed their accomplished virtuosity. They were clearly reveling in playing off one another. Their joy was infectious.”
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Doctoral graduates:
Jeri-Mae Astolfi
University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Artist-in-Residence at Piedmont College, Georgia, beginning 2013.
Kate Yeonjoo Bae
University of MN-Morris, 2016-2019, Mary Hardin Baylor University (TX) from 2019, and Temple College (TX) from 2020
Bethel Balge
Professor of Piano at Bethany Lutheran College, Mankato MN and Martin Luther College, New Ulm, MN. Interim Executive Director of the Mankato Symphony, 2019-2020, Executive Director starting March 2020.
Susan Billmeyer
Brooks Piano, Harpsichord, and Celesta Chair, Minnesota Orchestra
Christopher Brody
Assistant Professor of Theory at the University of Louisville, Kentucky.
Wayne Ching
University of the Incarnate Word (guest faculty and collaborative artist from 2021 and Classical Music Institute, San Antonio, TX, Artist-Educator Fellowship Program Coordinator).
Yung-Eun Choe
Southeastern University Lakeland, Florida from 2006 - 2009, University of Guam beginning Aug. 2018.
Hyunsoo Cho
Myung-ji University, Seoul, Korea
Soohyun Cho
Kyungnam University, Masan, South Korea
Eunhye Grace Choi
Northeast Center for Music, Minneapolis and North Hennepin Community College, Minneapolis
Sophie Christian
Clark College, Vancouver, WA
Shih-Yu Chuang
National Hsinchu University of Education, Taiwan
Alejandro Cremaschi
University of Colorado at Boulder
Loren Fishman
Carleton College, MN
Corey Hamm
University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Seongwon Han
Kyung-Buk National University and Taegu National University, Taegu, Korea
Hiyas Hila
East Bay Center for the Performing Arts and Vibo Music Center, San Francisco, CA.
Kevin Hobbs
North Hennepin Community College, Minneapolis; Visiting Piano Literature, Keyboard Skills, and Class Piano Lecturer, University of Minnesota (2014-16); Mount Calvary Academy of Music, MN; Visiting Professor Gustavus Adolphus College, 2014
Jessica Hueiyi Hong
Private Teaching, Woodbury MN
Grace Huang
Millikin University, Decatur, Illinois from 2006 - 2009; Cleveland Institute of Music 2009-2016; Assistant Professor of Piano and Piano Pedagogy University of Georgia-Athens beginning 2017.
Jikang Jung
Chong-Shin University, Seoul, Korea
Jeonglim Kim
Music Director, Minnehaha Communion Lutheran Church and private teacher, Minneapolis
Jiye Kim
Joomi Kim
Sunwha Arts School, Sam-Yuk University and Han-Se University, Seoul, Korea
Min Jung Kim
Soyoun Kim
Young Kim
College of St. Rose, Albany, NY (from 2000-2021), Skidmore College, NY (from 2021-) www.pianistyoungkim.com.
Miroslava Kisilevitch
MacPhail Conservatory and North Central College, Minneapolis, through 2014. Westmont College, CA from 2021.
Vincent Lam
Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas
Alison Lee
Hyeyoung Lee
Dean of the Piano Department at Sook-Myung University, Seoul, Korea
Fanya Lin
Visiting Lecturer of Piano at U of M, Twin Cities 2018-19 and Visiting Assistant Professor of Piano, University of Arizona-Tucson, from 2019.
Pei-Lei Lin
University of Jinan School of Music, China
Tzu-Ching Lin
National Taipei University, Taipei, Taiwan, beginning 2012
Shannon Loehrke
Century College, Minneapolis, MN and adjunct Professor of Piano at the College of St. John, Collegeville, MN, through 2015. Host and Interviewer for “The Capitol Report,” PBS television, weekly program.
Matthew McCright
Carleton College, Northfield, MN
David Oliver
Shorter College, Rome, Georgia
Woobin Park
Visiting Professor Winona State University, MN 2013-14, George Washington University, Chestertown, MD from 2015
Soyoung Park
Andong National University, Andong, South Korea (from 2021)
Gabriel Quenneville-Bélair
Piano faculty, Bellissimo Music Academy, Toronto Canada
Daniel Rieppel
Southwest Minnesota State University Marshall, MN
Minjeong Shin
Myung-ji University, Seoul, South Korea
Wonny Song
Lambda School of Music and the Fine Arts, Montreal, and winner of the 2005 YCA auditions. Artistic Director of the Orford Art Centre, Quebec, beginning 2016.
Maria Fernanda Trocan
Academy of Music, St. Francis in the Fields, Louisville, KY
Marina Veiler
New Music School, Chicago IL
Megan Monahan Wallace
Private teaching, St. Louis Park, MN.
Christopher Wallace
Music Director St. David’s, MN
Stephanie Wendt
www.goldenwattle.net
Andrew and Lydia following their performance of the Mozart Concerto for Two Pianos with the MN Orchestra, Jan. 12, 2011.
Three generations of pianists meet onstage at Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis in March 2003 for a Master Class with Gary Graffman.
From left to right: Wonny Song (DMA 2005), Lydia, Gary Graffman (Lydia’s teacher and mentor), and Andrew Staupe (MM 2007). Lydia is holding a photo taken of her with Mr. Graffman in 1967 in Philadelphia by Adrian Siegel.
Wonny Song and Lydia, Orchestra Hall, 2003
“Romance” from Rachmaninoff’s Suite No. 2 for Two Pianos, Op. 17,
Photos credit: Greg Helgeson