Yling Tan Miller (December 2009)Yling Tan Miller is a senior at the University of Southern California with a
double-major in Piano Performance and International Relations (IR). She will
graduate with a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance in Spring, 2010, and BA
in IR Honors in Spring, 2011.
Ms. Miller began receiving piano lessons at the age seven, and later joined Donna
Sams' piano studio in Kirkland WA Under Ms. Sams’ tutelage, Ms.
Miller won many competitions within Washington,
and on the national level took first place in the 2006 All American Music Festival
in Orlando, Florida. In addition to piano, Ms. Miller
was also principal cellist of the Inglemoor High School Orchestra. After
graduating from Inglemoor with a full International Baccalaureate Diploma in
2006, Ms. Miller was accepted by the Thornton School of Music at USC. Due to
her piano and academic excellence at USC, Ms. Miller has been nominated and
honored by the Thornton Music Faculty to join the Eta Chapter of the Pi Kappa
Lambda National Music Honors Society, and she will graduate with honors in Piano
Performance. In May 2009, Ms. Miller performed the Beethoven Piano Concerto No.
1 at USC's piano concerto competition.
In addition to music, Ms. Miller completed an international law
internship in Washington, DC last summer and won a special pass from Senator Dianne Feinstein to sit in Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation
hearing. In the summer of 2008, Ms. Miller taught business and medical English
to college students in Shanghai,
China. Ms.
Miller is also the President of the USC Chess Club and a teacher in the
Teaching International Relations Program at USC, which is a student-run
volunteer program to teach high-school students in the Los Angeles area. To read more about Ms.
Miller, visit http://www.ylingtan.com.
Laura Loge (March 2010)
Soprano Laura Loge can be heard this spring singing Musetta with Rimrock Opera, Guadalena and Ninetta in
La Perichole as part of the Hans Wolf Operetta Series in Seattle, Lucy in
The Telephone with NOISE, Nanetta and Alice in scenes from
Falstaff
for the Seattle Opera Guild Previews, songs for soprano and orchestra
by Edvard Grieg with the Eastside Symphony, and in recitals featuring
chamber music by Stenhammar, Hovland, Mozart and Buxtehude.
Recent opera roles include La Fée, Suor Genovieffa, Ginger (
The Night Harry Stopped Smoking with Rimrock Opera), Rosalinda, the Second Lady, Musetta, Goddess Diana (
Iphegenie en Aulide) and Miss Silverpeal. She has been heard on the concert stage performing
Bachianas Brasileiras no. 5 with eight cellos at the Icicle Creek Chamber Music Festival, and as the soprano soloist in Beethoven's
Ninth Symphony, Faure's
Requiem, Schumann's
Mass and
Requiem, Händel's
Messiah, and Verdi's
Requiem.
Her vast recital repertoire includes Copland, Barber, Mozart, R.
Strauss, Bellini, Grieg, Laitman, and many others. She has presented
recitals of Scandinavian art song across the northern United States, in
Norway and on the radio broadcast, "Live By George."
Laura is a
district winner of the 2005 Metropolitan Opera National Council
Auditions, a finalist in the 2008 Ladies Musical Club of Seattle
Competition and a semi-finalist in the 2009 Grieg Festival Competition.
She received her Masters Degree from New England Conservatory as a
student of Edward Zambara, has studied bel canto in Italy with Signora
Rosanna Lippi and studied Scandinavian Art Song in Norway. Laura
currently resides in Seattle and studies with Jane Eaglen.
Natalya Ageyeva (March 2010)
Natalya Ageyeva has dazzled audiences throughout the United States and internationally, including Italy, Austria, and Israel, as well as on tour in her native Russia. Her performances have also been broadcast several times locally on KING-FM and televised in Moscow and Chicago. She has appeared at a broad range of venues, from the Governor's Mansion in Olympia to the Rachmaninoff Hall in Moscow. Her pianism prompted one reviewer to write "Immediately apparent was a tremendous technique at the command of a sharp musical intelligence and fingers of steel. For more information, visit
http://www.natalyapiano.com/.
Lisa Hedley (March 2010)
Lisa Hedley teaches private flute lessons and currently plays with the Eastside Symphony, the Pontiac Bay Symphony Orchestra, and the Elle Flute Trio. She has studied flute with Cheryl Fogg in Seattle and with He Shengqi at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Lisa and her husband, Mike, reside in the Woodinville area.
Carolyn Tanksley (March 2010)
began playing harp at age eight, under the tutelage of Frances Gilman Miller, with whom she continued her studies at St. Olaf College. Ms. Tanksley played with many orchestral, ensemble, and choral groups as a youth and won various harp competitions at the state and national level. Locally, Ms. Tanksley has studied with Pamela Vokolek, Harp Professor at the U of W School of Music. Ms. Tanksley rounds out her days skiing, biking, and as the Asst. Tennis coach for Woodinville High School. Carolyn and her husband, Michael, who plays violin, are members of the Eastside Symphony and reside in the Woodinville area with their two sons.