Music - Faculty Biographies - Yuri Funahashi

Yuri Funahashi teaches keyboard courses including Piano I, Piano II, Piano III, Keyboard in Popular Music, Applied Music and coaches groups in MUS 277 Small Ensembles and Chamber Music. As faculty co- president of the Ministry of Experimental Arts, Funahashi works with other faculty, students and staff to promote arts on the UMF campus and also leads projects that expose students to artistic events off campus.

As a professional pianist, Funahashi has been a guest artist at numerous chamber music festivals and has performed in Japan, Australia, Canada and throughout Europe and in many of the major halls in the U.S. including the Kennedy Center, the Music Center in Los Angeles, Orchestra Hall in Chicago, Jones Hall in Houston and Weill Carnegie Hall and the 92nd Street Y in New York City. She has collaborated with The Verdehr Trio, and the Brentano and Cassatt String Quartets. She is a performing member of the Festival Chamber Music Society in New York City and is co-director of the Maine Mountain Chamber Music, a series that brings world-class musicians to perform in Farmington and work with UMF students.

Funahashi received her Bachelor of Music degree with Honors from the University of Wisconsin, her Master of Music from the University of Southern California and her Doctor of Musical Arts from the Julliard School. She has held teaching positions at the University of Southern California, the Boys Choir of Harlem and at Colby College.