ISABELLE
YALKOVSKY
BYMAN
Pianist,
teacher, lecturer, author and
educator, graduated with distinction
from the Juilliard School. She was a scholarship student of the great Olga
Samaroff Stokowski and studied chamber music with Enesco, Salmond and
Letz; theory, composition and counterpoint with
Goldmark; and orchestral conducting with
Stoessel.
As a recipient of the
Schubert Memorial Award, She made her debut with the New York Philharmonic
Orchestra in Carnegie Hall and
appeared as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Leopold
Stokowski.
She subsequently appeared as soloist with
the Los Angeles Orchestra, the Cleveland
Orchestra, San Francisco, Boston, Denver and
others, and concertized throughout the United States and
Canada. She appeared in many first
performances of contemporary music and as guest artist with the
Musical Art Quartet, the Silvermine Quartet,
and the Kohon String Quartet -
in an all-Ives program with the
latter group.
She recorded for RCA
Victor, Vox and Stero Age Recording Co., made an educational film called the
Language of
Music,
and recorded Three Centuries
of
Music
on the Siena Piano. She wrote jacket liners
for Hall
of
Fame and Classics Records and contributed
articles to Piano Quarterly, National Guild of
Piano Teachers, and the American Music
Teachers magazines.
Mme. Isabelle Yalkovsky
Byman was assistant teacher to Mme. Olga Samaroff Stokowski in private
teaching and in the Layman's Music Courses at
the junior League. Many of her pupils have been winners
in the talent hunt contests and she received a Baldwin prize as teacher
of a National Runner-Up.
Mme. Byman has been
invited to serve on the Fulbright Committee to screen the piano
applicants for the awards given in
1980-81. She has juried solo and concerti contests and served as audition
chairman of the N Y SM T A for five
years. She was awarded the highest certificate of professional advancement
for the Music Teachers National
Association.
As a lecture
recitalist, Mme. Byman has given many teachers workshops
-
the Philadelphia Music Teachers Association, the Pottstown Teachers Association
in Pennsylvania, the Brooklyn Guild of
Piano Teachers, the Associated Music
Teachers. League, and The Piano Teachers Congress of New
York, Inc. She was a piano-clinician for the
New York State Music Teachers Association and the Utah
State Music Teachers, Convention in Salt Lake
City. She is listed in the International
Musicians Who's Who and the
International Women's Who's Who.
Mme. Byman taught at
the Juilliard and is now on the college faculty and in charge of piano pedagogy
classes at the Manhattan School of
Music.

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