Joseph Lulloff & Yu-Lien The
Biography Joseph Lulloff & Yu-Lien The
Joseph Lulloff
enjoys a prolific career as a saxophone artist and teacher. Currently Professor of Saxophone at Michigan State University, Mr. Lulloff has been featured as guest soloist with the Cleveland, Minnesota, Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestras, and Brevard Music Center Orchestras amongst others. Mr. Lulloff has concertized extensively throughout North America, Europe, South America and Asia, performing at notable venues such as Weill Recital Hall, Jordan Hall, the Smithsonian Institute, Carnegie Hall, Disney Hall, the Ojai Festival, the Moscow Autumn Festival, the KKL (Kultur- und Kongresszentrum of Luzern, Switzerland), and many other. He has also served as principle saxophonist with Detroit, St. Louis, Minnesota, and Chicago Symphony Orchestras, and currently serves in that role with the Cleveland Orchestra. Lulloff performs with the Capitol and J4 Saxophone Quartets and is on the artist-teaching faculties at the Brevard Music Center and the Great Plains Saxophone Workshop.
Yu-Lien
The has performed throughout the US, Europe and Southeast-Asia, including appearances at the Gilmore International Keyboard Festival, Zankel Hall at Carnegie, and as a soloist with the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, the Kammerorchester Hannover and the Baroque Orchestra L'Arco. A sought-after chamber musician, she frequently collaborates with saxophonist Joe Lulloff and has been involved in a number of commissions and world premieres. She is a prizewinner of the 12th International Piano Competition Viotti-Valsesia and the Deutsche Musikwettbewerb. Born in the Netherlands, Yu-Lien The obtained piano performance degrees from the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover and from the Hochschule für Musik Detmold as well as a D.M.A. from Michigan State University. Her principal piano teachers were Arie Vardi, Anatol Ugorski, Deborah Moriarty and Lori Sims. Dr. The is Assistant Professor of Piano at Western Michigan University and has previously served on the faculties at Bowling Green State University and Valparaiso University.
