A native of Japan, Mayumi Osada holds the Doctor of Musical Arts in piano performance from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and the Master of Music and the Bachelor of Arts in music (cum laude and high honors) in piano performance from the State University of New York at Binghamton. Experienced as a soloist, chamber and orchestra pianist in many venues, she has received numerous awards and scholarships. Her teachers include Dr. Andrew Willis, Michael Salmirs, James Giles, Ewa Mackiewicz-Wolfe, and Seymour Fink. Mayumi also studied with Dr. Barbara Lister-Sink in her professional certificate program in injury-preventive keyboard technique. In 2009, Mayumi published her doctoral dissertation “The Lister-Sink Method: A Holistic Approach to Injury-Preventive Piano Technique.”

Mayumi has been teaching at Moore Music since 2008. She also serves on the piano faculty at High Point University since 2011. Her foremost goal as a teacher and a performer is to inspire others to make music in their own way and enrich the lives of others through music. Mayumi encourages healthful musical development through safe and efficient application of the Lister-Sink Method and cultivates a holistic practice of teaching that coordinates the body and mind. Her students enjoy performing in studio recitals in which they play piano solos, duets, and ensembles with other instruments in collaboration with Mayumi, their friends and family members.

Mayumi has interests in various types of instruments including historical keyboard instruments. She has performed on various fortepianos for the Fortepiano Workshops led by Drs.Malcolm Bilson and Andrew Wills. She enjoys collecting and playing on toy pianos and instruments from other cultures (singing bowls, gong, thumb-piano, etc). She incorporates those instruments in her concert performances, meditation sessions and private lessons. With her cellist colleague at HPU, Dr. JW Turner, Mayumi leads meditation sessions and performs Japanese music (folk, anime, etc) and classical works by Japanese composers.

When she is not teaching or playing music, Mayumi makes clay cat sculptures to raise money to help local feral/stray cats. Mayumi lives in Greensboro with her violinist husband Ulric Schweizer and their cats.

Erick Eaton believes that making music is nothing more or less than a means of personal expression, and that having efficient, effortless technique is essential to expressing ourselves fully. Also essential is having a sense of artistic spontaneity and sonic freedom – open to all possibilities.

To that end, he has dedicated himself to mastering the art of improvisation and to discovering the best methods for developing optimal coordination at the piano. He studied the Lister-Sink method with Barbara Lister-Sink and the Taubman approach with Kendall Feeney as well as Alexander Technique with Ethan Kind.

Mr. Eaton brings all this to his teaching, helping his students express themselves with spontaneous musical creations, free from technical limitations and the bounds of genre and convention.

A sampling of his musical creations can be heard at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtVasjHvoLZDvsCdyrifKMg.