A Conversation with Kim Berry and Yoko Yates

Tune in on Monday, February 23, at 2:30 p.m. to listen to a conversation between Kim Berry and Yoko Yates, a talented pianist and composer. Yoko was born in Sapporo City, Japan, and began her keyboard study at age four. She was always exposed to a variety of music in a music-loving family.

When she was a student at the Hokkaido University of Education, her interest towards "art" education motivated her to study more improvisational music and to find innovative approaches to nurture creativity. She was awarded the Cultural Merit Scholarship from Sapporo City and the Professional Music Scholarship from Berklee College of Music in Boston. She graduated from Berklee with a Bachelor of Arts in Music and went on to receive a Master's in Education from Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She then continued her studies at Columbia University in New York for a Doctorate in Music Education.

Yoko has been a member of the piano faculty at Brooklyn Conservatory of Music and Greenwich House Music School in Manhattan since 1996.

To learn more about Yoko, visit her website here: Yoko Yates