In partnership with Stretto Piano Concerts, Stretto piano pioneer Dr. Carol Leone will present a special concert featuring students and alumni of the Meadwos School of Arts including Carlie Toliver, Adèle Le Blanc, Yumiko Hastings, Eliana Yi, and Regan Smith. All artists except the latter are playing DS6.0 and DS5.5 keyboards.
An SMU Meadows music faculty member since 1996, Dr. Leone currently serves as the chair of Piano Studies.
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An SMU Meadows music faculty member since 1996, Carol Leone is nationally recognized as an artist-teacher of piano. Dr. Leone has performed and taught throughout the United States, Europe and Asia and has been a prizewinner in piano competitions such as the National Beethoven Sonata Competition, the Missouri Southern International Piano Competition and the International Masters Piano Competition. Her performances have been lauded as “revelatory” (TheaterJones.com), possessing “great pizzazz … luminous in tone and nimble finger work … ” (Dallas Morning News) and providing “every nuance with clarity and charm … ” (Peninsula Review).
Her professional training included study at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia where she received a Certificate and was a student of the Polish pianist Mieczysław Horszowski. Leone was also a student of Guido Agosti in Rome and holds the prestigious Honors Diploma from the Accademia Chigiana in Siena, Italy.
Leone has recorded for MSR Classics, the Augusta Read Thomas Label, Gasparo Records and Crystal Records. Her solo CD Change of Keys was awarded two Silver Medals in the 2016 Global Music Awards. She performs regularly with the Grammy-nominated contemporary music ensemble Voices of Change as well as at universities and music conferences throughout the US.
Leone is also active in national and international keyboard festivals and conferences as a teacher, lecturer and adjudicator. She has been named Texas Music Teachers Association’s Collegiate Teacher of the Year and was one of 10 teachers selected nationwide to serve as Mobil Ambassador to the 9th Van Cliburn Competition. She has served on the piano faculty of numerous summer programs, including the Bösendorfer International Piano Academy in Vienna, the Cliburn Piano Institute, the International Fine Arts Institute in Moscow, the International Piano Master Class in Bojano, Italy and the Tong-Il Han International Music Festival in South Korea. Her students have been top prizewinners in international competitions such as the Virginia Waring, the Bradshaw and Buono, the Chopin Foundation Scholarship Program and the Center for Musical Excellence International Young Artist Awards.
Leone has presented at the Music Teachers National Association Conference, the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy, the Australasian Piano Pedagogy Conference, and the European Piano Teachers Association Conference (Czech Republic), among others. Her articles on performance topics have appeared in American Music Teacher, Clavier Companion, Piano Today, Keyboard Companion, The Texas Music Teacher, and the Piano Professional (UK).Considered the world’s leading artist-teacher on ergonomic piano keyboards to promote a pianist’s wellness, she has been invited to write on the topic by several of the world’s leading piano journals.
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Eliana Yi is a performer and private teacher in the Seattle area. She is known for fostering a love of music in her students and her teaching approach toward healthy piano playing. She performs regularly as a solo artist on her 5.5" DS keyboard and is a faculty member at the Chopin Academy of Music in Issaquah.
Eliana recently graduated from her position as a teaching fellow at the Meadows School of the Arts at southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.
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Originally from Canada, Acadian pianist Adèle LeBlanc is currently pursuing a Master of Music in Piano Performance and Pedagogy at the Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas under the tutelage of Catharine Lysinger. She completed her Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance at the Université de Moncton in New Brunswick, Canada under the guidance of Dr. Roger Lord and Dr. Carl Philippe Gionet. Since 2016, she has participated in several regional, provincial and national music festivals. Adèle attended workshops at the Orford Music Academy and Musique sur mer en Acadie. She also took part in COSA Canada: Summer Vocal Intensive and Barachois Summer Music Academy as a collaborative pianist. In January 2023, she accompanied the Opera Workshop of l’Université de Moncton in the stage production of the opera "Too Many Sopranos" by Edwin Penhorwood.
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