Yoshi Gurwell
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Yoshi
Gurwell has been a ballet pianist for the past 12
years. She has studied the works of many major
companies and choreographers, plus studied, and
arranged music of many ballet composers. At this
time, Yoshi is doing a series of piano pieces, from
well-known ballets, for Etoile Publishing in Japan.
She has also released ballet class CD series,
entitled “Music for Ballet Lovers Vols. 1 through
7”. Each CD in this series has a different focus and
style.
Yoshi is currently on staff of the dance departments at UC Irvine, Cal State Univ. Long Beach, The Wooden Floor in Santa Ana, California, and Westside School of Ballet in West Los Angeles, including their summer intensive for young dancers with SAB. Also, she does ongoing special events for Chapman Univ., Loyola Marymount Univ., RAD, Los Angeles Ballet, Southland Ballet, Maple Conservatory, Defore Dance Center, Corona Dance Academy, and Long Beach Ballet. Yoshi has recently worked for summer intensives with the Joffrey Ballet, RDA, Dance Excellence, and ABT. Some of the former and current professional dancers Yoshi has worked with include Gelsi Kirkland, Susan Jaffe, Melissa Hale Cole, Vladimir Malakhov, Ethan Stiefel, Misty Copeland, Paloma Herrera, and Melissa Bowman of ABT, Alexi Moskalenko, Alexander Greschenko, Gennadi and Larissa Saveliev from the Bolshoi Ballet, Yuri Fateyev, Acting director of The Mariinsky Ballet, Yvonne Mounsey, Colleen Neary, Patricia Neary, Suki Schorer and Darci Kistler of the New York City Ballet, Alice Alyse of the Joffrey Ballet, Adam Sklute, Artistic Director of Ballet West, contemporary ballet with Arturo Fernandez, former dancer with Ballet Trocadero, Patricia Barker of Pacific Northwest Ballet and many more.... Sincerely, Prima Dona Pianist, Yoshi Gurwell --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Read about Doug Gurwell, Yoshi's husband. He is a composer, pianist, lyricist, arranger, trumpet player & bassist. |
