DR. ASYA GULUA
CORBAN UNIVERSITY, OREGON
Pianist Asya Gulua made her New York City debut as a chamber musician at Alice Tully Hall in 2004. Since then has collaborated with numerous artists throughout the country and abroad. She performs regularly in Davies Symphony Hall as a guest artist of the San Francisco Symphony’s chamber music series and has collaborated with musicians of the Israel Philharmonic as part of a concert series held at the Ralli Museum in Caesarea, Israel. Asya has also appeared in duo piano performances with her husband, pianist and composer, Arsen Gulua, whose works she has premiered at Lincoln Center.
During her years of study at the Juilliard School, Asya developed a passion for more obscure and lesser-known repertoire, which was cultivated by her teacher Jerome Lowenthal. This has led her to frequent discoveries of music by widely recognized as well as overlooked composers, which she enjoys sharing in an intimate setting of a house concert. While living in New York City, an interest in new music was sparked by collaboration with Samuel Zyman, the first living composer Asya has ever worked with. This ongoing interest helped facilitate a relationship with “Cascadia Composers”, a Portland based group of local composers whose works Asya regularly premiers.
Besides having an active performing career, Asya teaches piano at Corban University and maintains a growing private studio in her current home town of Salem, OR. Her students span various ages, levels, and walks of life and Asya bases her teaching on the individual needs of each student. She firmly believes that the skills gained while learning to play the piano are imperative and directly applicable to everyday life.
Asya received initial musical training in her native Moscow at the Gnessin School of Music. In 1996 she immigrated to the United States and enrolled at the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan shortly after. Asya holds degrees from The Juilliard School (BM), The Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University in Bloomington, IN (MM), and University of Oregon (DMA). She has had the privilege to study with Anna Arzamanova, Edward Auer, Myron Bloom, Mikhail Boguslavsky, Alexandre Dossin, Marjorie Janove, Sergei Lebedev, and Jerome Lowenthal, all of whom continue to be a source of inspiration.
