LOS ANGELES (PRWEB) January 23, 2019 -- On January 22, the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) hosted representatives from five Chinese conservatories for a demonstration of the exclusive Yamaha Remote Lesson technology between UCLA and the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, China. This event represented the first official connection between an American and a Chinese school.
The group will now travel to Brigham Young University and the San Francisco Conservatory to learn about their experiences with Remote Lesson technology. Participating in this event were the Wuhan Conservatory of Music, Sichuan Conservatory of Music, Xinghai Conservatory of Music, Mianyang Normal University and Guangdong Literature and Art Vocational College. In conjunction with Yamaha Corporation of America, the event is sponsored by Yamaha Music & Electronics (China) Co., Ltd.
Yamaha developed this groundbreaking, distance-learning technology which enables top artists and educators to instruct students remotely, thanks to internet-connected Disklavier reproducing pianos located miles apart, in different states, or in this case, different countries. The Yamaha Disklavier is a unique instrument capable of transmitting highly nuanced performance data – the actual key strokes and subtle gradations of pedal movement – between similarly equipped instruments over the internet.
Dr. Inna Faliks, a Yamaha artist and the head of the keyboard department at UCLA, taught a student at the Central Conservatory of Music from UCLA's recording studio in the Ostin Music Center. Shana Kirk, a Yamaha Consultant, provided technical support and presented the Disklavier to the Chinese guests.
While Dr. Faliks played on the school’s Yamaha DCFX Disklavier, a DC7 in China recreated, in real time, the exact performance – the piano’s keys and pedals moved up and down to capture the subtlest nuance. At the same time, students were able to watch the live performance on a big screen TV, with the video perfectly in sync with the piano on stage. UCLA was one of the first schools to use Disklavier Remote Lesson technology when Dr. Faliks taught UCLA piano students from New York's Yamaha Artist Services in 2012.
“This is the future of music education,” says Ms. Faliks. “With this unique technology, schools have access to top-level teachers from all over the world to teach their students remotely. They can also more easily recruit students by having them record and transmit their audition performances over the internet through the use of a Yamaha Disklavier rather than physically traveling to the schools. These virtual auditions can then be recreated on the remote Disklavier piano for evaluation, with each note and nuance delivered faithfully and precisely as the artist intended.”
To learn more about Yamaha Disklavier Remote Lesson technology, visit https://yamaha.io/2S73fjb
About UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music is the only school of music in the University of California system, offering the highest caliber of music instruction in the context of a great research university. It allows students to take advantage of the resources and experiences offered by a university setting, while receiving world-class musical training and working alongside leading scholars who are fostering transformative critical thinking about music and musical practices.
About Yamaha
Yamaha Corporation of America (YCA) is one of the largest subsidiaries of Yamaha Corporation, Japan and offers a full line of award-winning musical instruments, sound reinforcement, commercial installation and home entertainment products to the U.S. market. Products include: Yamaha acoustic, digital and hybrid pianos, portable keyboards, guitars, acoustic and electronic drums, band and orchestral instruments, marching percussion products, synthesizers, professional digital and analog audio equipment, Steinberg recording products and NEXO commercial audio products, as well as AV receivers, amplifiers, MusicCast wireless multiroom audio systems, Blu-ray/CD players, earphones, headphones, home-theater-in-a-box systems, sound bars and its exclusive line of Digital Sound Projectors. YCA markets innovative, finely crafted technology and entertainment products and musical instruments targeted to the hobbyist, education, worship, music, professional audio installation and consumer markets.
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