Kent Keyboard Series Concert: A Season of Homecomings, Cicilia Yudha, guest artist
- Kent
Pianist and educator Cicilia Yudha returns to Northeast Ohio with a performance shaped by a career in music, scholarship and cross-cultural exploration.
Yudha’s work explores the intersections of French and Indonesian musical traditions through repertoire and research. She has performed in 20 U.S. states and internationally, with appearances at Erasmus Huis in Jakarta, Carnegie Hall and Severance Music Center with The Cleveland Orchestra.
Her work extends beyond the concert stage. Yudha has presented lecture-recitals for the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy, the Frances Clark Center’s “From the Artist Bench†series, TEDx, Ohio Music Teachers Association and College Music Society conferences. Over nine years, she delivered nearly 50 Preview Concert Lectures for The Cleveland Orchestra.
Her recordings include “Selected Piano Works by Robert Casadesus and Henri Dutilleux,†released by Navona Records in 2016, and a 2024 recording of two piano trios by Emilie Mayer.
A Nationally Certified Teacher of Music and four-time recipient of the Steinway Top Teacher Award, Yudha spent more than a decade on the faculty of the Dana School of Music at Youngstown State University. She joined the University of Nevada, Reno as assistant professor of piano in fall 2025.
Her return to Northeast Ohio continues a professional connection to a region where she spent more than a decade performing, teaching and engaging with audiences.
