Meet Our Faculty

Piano Faculty

The Montecito International Music Festival is dedicated to bringing masters of teaching to mentor their students.
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This piano faculty roster is subject to change without notice.
Seonmi Lee
Piano Session 2 and 3
Scott Cuella
Piano Session 1 and 2
Miji Kim
Piano Session 3
Rodolfo Leone
Piano Session 1 and 2
Mark Richman
Piano session 3 and 4
Min Kwon
Piano Session 1
Soo -Yeon Park
Piano Session 3
Ivana Grubelic Malo
Piano Session 1, 2, 3 and 4
Inga Kapouler Gartner
Piano Session 1
Peter Klimo
Piano Session 3 and 4
Suejin Jung
Piano Session
Rufus Choi
Piano Session 4
Sehee Lee
Piano Sessions 1 and 2
Jennifer Cruz
Piano Session 4
Andres Jaramillo
Piano Session 4
Yi-Ju Lai
Piano Session 1,2 ,3
Eloise Kim
Piano Session 1&2
Barry Tan (Visiting Guest Artist)
Piano Session 1,2 and 3
Svetlana Transky
Piano Session 1 & 2
Heqing Huang – Visiting Guest Artist
Piano - Session 3
Yang Shen
Piano - Session 1, 2, 3 and 4
Marta Aznavoorian
Piano Sessions 1
Ornela Ervin
Piano Sessions 1,2,3 and 4
Xiting Yang
Piano Sessions 1,2
Vanessa Fadial, DMA
Piano - Session 1 and 2
Micah Yui
Piano - Session 1, 2
Dmitry Rachmanov
Piano - Session 1
Fabio Bidini
Piano - Special Guest
Hyoung Wuk Kim
Piano - Session 1, 2,3 and 4
Yi-Yang Chen
Piano - Session 2
Teresa de Jong Pombo
Piano - Session 1
John Perry
Piano - Special Guest
Eric Le Van
Piano - Session 1, 2, 3
Peter Takacs
Piano - Session 1, 2, 3
Daniel Shapiro
Piano - Session 2
Valeria Morgovskaya
Staff Pianist
Yurie Iwasaki
Staff Pianist
Vanessa Muen Wei
Piano - Session 1, 2, 3
Regulo Martinez-Anton
Piano - Session 1, 2
Dr. Elvin S. Rodriquez
Piano - General Manager