Fifteen Minutes of Fame: with Yumi Suehiro

2025

Born in Osaka, Japan, Pianist Yumi Suehiro began studying piano at age 6, and marimba a year later. In Japan, Ms. Suehiro won numerous national and international competitions, including the top prize at the Kobe International Competition as the youngest winner.

An undergraduate scholarship student at Lehman College (CUNY), she graduated magna cum laude, and she received her Master of Music degree in piano performance from the Manhattan School of Music as a student of Zenon Fishbein and Peter Vinograde. While at Manhattan, she won second prize in the school’s 2010 concerto competition (with John Harbison’s Piano Concerto), and in 2011 was chosen to perform Richard Wilson’s “Flashback” for Pierre-Laurent Aimard’s master class.

Ms. Suehiro has appeared at numerous festivals for contemporary music, such as June in Buffalo, the Princeton Sound Kitchen, NUNC! (Chicago), Red Note (IL), New Music New College (FL), Sound of Stockholm, and the Darmstädter Ferienkurse (where she received an honorable mention). She is a core member of Ensemble Mise-en, with which she performed Ligeti's Piano Concerto in January 2017. Most recently, her recording of Hans Thomalla’s complete works for solo piano was released on Sideband Records.

She has taught at Lehman College (CUNY), and has served on the faculty at Lehman College Continuing Education.

Concert Dates

  • November, 2025 - Ellington Room - New York City

15 one-minute selections for Yumi Suehiro

  • Bells

    Bracha Bdil

    Bracha Bdil (1988) is an Israeli-British composer, conductor, and pianist, winner of the Prime Minister's Award for Composition (Israel, 2022) and the ACUM Award (2019). Her repertoire spans different mediums including orchestral music, chamber, vocal and electronic music. Bracha's compositions have won several first prizes ;in Israel, UK, Russia, China, Germany, Romania, Serbia, Belarus, Cuba and more. And with her composition Yizkerem, for a-cappella choir, she represented Israel at the Asian Composers League Festival, Taiwan (2018). Bracha Bdil is a member of the Israel Composers' League, her works are broadcast on the Israel Radio Voice of Music program and published by the Israel Music Institute and ICL. Beginning in the fall of 2018, Bracha became the artistic director and chief conductor of the Zmora Women's Orchestra in Jerusalem. Site and list of works: http://brachabdil.blogspot.com/p/list-of-compositions.html

  • Decorated Oscillation

    David Bohn

    Four chords oscillate, with complications.

    David Bohn received degrees in composition from the University of Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and the University of Illinois. He currently resides in West Allis, Wisconsin, and is the music coordinator at Peace Methodist Church in Brookfield. He is the President of the Wisconsin Alliance for Composers.

  • Hummingbirds

    Richard Campanelli

    Hummingbirds attempts to capture as literally as possible the quick and aerobatic movements that hummingbirds are capable of making. The resulting composition requires a light and deft touch to capture the motion of this wonderful birds.

    Richard Campanelli received his masters degree from the Hartt School where he studied with Donald Harris. His DMA from the University of MI where he studied with Leslie Bassett and William Bolcom. He has won a Goddard Lieberson Fellowship from the American American Academy of Arts and Letters

  • ...this moment...

    Brendan Colbert

    “This moment in time… It doesn’t belong to you… It belongs to me…and the one hand clapping…” ― Kate Bush, from Jig of Life Written for pianist Yumi Suehiro, …this moment… was completed in March 2025 and has a duration of approx. 58 seconds.

    Australian composer Brendan Colbert’s output (approximately 100 works) includes commissions from local and international soloists, ensembles and orchestras. His works have been performed throughout Australia & in Europe, the UK, and the USA. Further information (including audio samples etc.) is available at https://brendancolbert.com.au/ or through the Australian Music Centre.

  • Room 206

    Michael Coleman

    "Room 206" is dedicated to Yumi Suehiro as part of her Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame project and it includes a special effect developed by the composer that combines an on-the-string glissando combined with slight pedal motion. Room 206 is the composer's favorite classroom for teaching his theory courses.

    Michael Coleman has participated as composer/pianist in numerous new music programs and festivals in the U.S. and Russia and has also had works performed in North & Central America, Europe, and Eurasia. He currently teaches at Pensacola State College and the University of West Florida.

  • Psalm 19

    Tyler Faulkner

    Psalm 19 is inspired by the biblical Psalm of the same number.

    Tyler Faulkner earned a Bachelor’s in Piano Performance from the University of South Florida in 2025. Studying under Dr. Eunmi Ko, they honed both compositional and performance skills, specializing in piano and cello. Their works reflect a character of pantonal centricity and the beauty of the written word.

  • mono (no. 1, 2025)

    Naoki Kondo

    This piece is one of the “mono” series. “mono” series are focused on the exploration of appearing, disappearing sounds and monochromatic spaces. Also, this series are inspired by Japanese poetry, haiku and tanka.

    Composer. Studied composition at the Soai University, Japan. I explore and compose music about the connection between “disappearing, forgetting, and transition of traces of existence” - “sound” - “individual.”

  • Mémoire et oubli

    Robert Lemay

    “The very photos of my parents became photos of imaginary characters (...) I used their shadows and, above all, their names, because they sounded so familiar. (...) I used their shadows and above all their names because of their sound, and they were nothing more than musical notes for me.

    Born in Montreal, Robert Lemay has been active as a composer since the late 1980s. His music has been performed and broadcast in over 30 countries and has received numerous international awards. Lemay’s music draws its inspiration from poetry, literature, cinema, visual arts, and political and social events.

  • When Silence Cracks

    Joop van Liere

    When Silence Cracks Explores the fragile boundary between tranquility and intensity. With striking dynamic differences, the piece begins as a delicate, introspective recitative, only to erupt suddenly into a bold, fff gesture. This outburst retreats briefly, building steadily toward an electrifying conclusion—a one-minute journey of contrast and transformation.

    Joop van Liere is a Dutch composer. His body of work includes compositions for solo instruments, ensembles, and orchestras. Notable pieces are "String Quartet Nr. III," and "Yksi kaksi kolme" for symphony orchestra. His compositions are characterized by their connection to magical realistic themes. More information: www.joopvanliere.nl

  • Die Entzauberung der Welt

    Ariel González Losada

    Composed and dedicated to pianist Yumi Suehiro, Die Entzauberung der Welt (The Disenchantment of the World) presents musical material that evolves through processes of variation. Initially introduced in the form of chords, this material is progressively deconstructed, ultimately giving rise to its own structure.

    Ariel González Losada is an Argentine composer. He was born in Buenos Aires, where he currently resides and carries out his professional work. His compositions have received national and international awards and have been performed by renowned ensembles and soloists.

  • Hence the Music

    Matthew Osterholzer

    Music is said to "express that which words cannot." The phrase suggests complex feelings that resist definition, but a great deal can be captured but never expressed through words, restrained by fear and denial. Yet these things, ill-defined and invisible, still demand to be heard. Hence the music.

    Matthew Osterholzer (2002) is a composer and pianist from Ann Arbor, MI whose music seeks to be not only an avenue for individual self-expression, but a vessel for communal imagination and meaning-making. Matthew received his Bachelors in Composition and his Bachelors in Psychology at the University of Michigan.

  • Sommersa

    Paolo Porto

    "Sommersa" is a composition based on the harmonic superposition of two chords. These chords serve as bass for a modal chorale. The sounds that emerge are very important and very important are the evolutions of the harmony. There is no such thing as linear time. There is a variable time and space.

    Paolo Porto Paolo Porto, Italian pianist and composer. He wrote for a lot of Contemporary music Festivals as Nuova Consonanza, Festival Nuovi Spazi Musicali, Rai Radio 3. Published by Da Vinci Edition, Taukay and Archivi del 900. He recorded as pianist for Brilliant Classics. Graduated in piano and composition in the Conservatory of La Spezia. His compositions have been performed in the New Music Spaces Festival in Rome, Musica Festival Bellagio and Como, Festival 5 Giornate Milano, Nuova Consonanza in Rome, Osmose Festival Bruxelles. He has published Cd with: Contemporary music center Milano, MAP Editions, Brilliant Classics, Da Vinci editions. He has published scores with Universal Editions Vienna, Sillabe Editions Firenze, MAP Editions Milano, Da Vinci Editions Osaka, Taukay Editions Udine. In 2015 the Nuova Consonanza Festival in Rome commissioned him to compose a melologue in one act "Il Grande Balipedio" dedicated to Great War and staged in National Radio in Italy. He in a member of the Italian Society for contemporary music SIMC.

  • Gallery of Solitude III (fragment)

    Nick Redfern

    Gallery of Solitude III (fragment) is part of a series of solo works of a rather introvert nature.

    I was born in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, on 25th December 1962, and completed my school years at what was then known as Ashby Grammar School. I studied Music at Huddersfield Polytechnic, King’s College London, The Royal College of Music and The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.

  • … a daydream …

    Volker Ignaz Schmidt

    Once, Zhuang Zhou dreamed he was a butterfly. Suddenly he woke up and there he was, solid and unmistakable Zhuang Zhou. But he didn't know if he was Zhuang Zhou who had dreamt he was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming that he was Zhuang Zhou. — Zhuangzi

    Volker Ignaz Schmidt (born 1971 in Germany) studied computer science although his passion is music. He has composed solo works, chamber music, vocal pieces, orchestral music, one opera, conceptual and electronic music. He has written piano textbooks and he worked in school projects on contemporary music.

  • Resonances of a Cherry Blossom

    Juan María Solare

    Resonances of a Cherry Blossom is a one-minute piano miniature inspired by the motif of the traditional folk song Sakura. Its structure follows the 5-7-5 syllabic pattern of a haiku. Muted keys create subtle resonances, blending fragility with strength. Like a cherry blossom: an ephemeral yet optimistic presence.

    Juan María Solare (1966, Argentina), works in Germany as composer, pianist, and teaching at the University of Bremen. His music has been performed across five continents, earned 11 composition prizes and received 30 million streams in Spotify. Over 33 CDs of different performers feature music by him. https://www.JuanMariaSolare.com