Yuliya Minina

Dr. Yuliya Minina has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in Ukraine, the Czech Republic, Mexico and the United States. She has toured as a soloist with the Baja California Orchestra in Mexico and performed concerti with the UCI Symphony Orchestra and Philharmonia Northwest.

Currently, Minina is a collaborative pianist and instructor at the Claire Trevor School of the Arts at the University of California, Irvine. Previously, she served as adjunct piano faculty and staff pianist at Seattle Pacific University and maintained a private piano studio. She has presented master classes at the University of Missouri, Columbia; the Autonomous University of Baja California, Ensenada; and the Centro de Artes Musicales in Tijuana, Mexico. She has also worked as a pianist for Northwest Opera in Schools, Etcetera, an opera outreach organization, and as a rehearsal pianist for the Seattle Gilbert and Sullivan Society.

Minina began her music education at age 5 at the Stolyarsky School-Lyceum in Odesa, Ukraine. She later graduated with distinction from the National Music Academy in Odesa, earned a Master of Fine Arts in piano performance from UC Irvine, and completed a Doctor of Musical Arts at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her principal teachers include Eleonora Levinzon, Tetiana Schevchenko, Nina Scolnik and Craig Sheppard.