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.

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Joey Tschue began his piano study in his hometown of Tongliao in the Province of Inner Mongolia in China. At the age of seventeen he came to the US to study under the tutelage of Professor John Salmon at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he obtained his Bachelor of Music degree in Piano Performance in 2016. During his undergraduate study, he chose to spend a semester in Austria studying German at the University of Klagenfurt and piano at the Carinthian Conservatory. He returned to Austria after graduation in order to continue his piano study under the direction of Professor Alexei Kornienko. He also took lessons at the Vienna Conservatory and the Graz Conservatory. During this stay in Austria, he obtained his academic certification in German language and was awarded two Artistic Diplomas at the Carinthian Conservatory.

In addition to his performance life, Joey is also an active pedagogue in piano education. He taught piano at the Lernraum-Schule as well as the New School of Rock in Klagenfurt, Austria and has taught other piano students in China and in the US. In 2020, Joey returned from Austria to Greensboro and earned his Master's degree in Piano Pedagogy in 2022 under the direction of Dr. Annie Jeng and Prof. Andrew Willis.

Currently, Joey is pursuing a DMA degree in Collaborative Piano at the School of Music at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro under the direction of Dr. James Douglass.