Yamaha Artist Services, Inc. (also known as YASI)[2] is a provider of professional services exclusively for performing music artists, concert venues, performing arts organizations and educational institutions.[3] Located at 689 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, New York City, YASI is owned by the American subsidiary of Yamaha Corporation[4] and features rehearsal, recording and performance spaces for musicians.[2]
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 Aeolian Building, current seat of YASI | |
| Abbreviation | YASI |
|---|---|
| Formation | 1987 |
| Founded at | New York City |
| Legal status | Active |
| Headquarters | Manhattan |
Region | United States |
| Services | Rooms to host concerts, rehearsal and recording sessions for musicians |
| Owner | Yamaha Corporation |
Director | Bonnie Barrett [1] |
Parent organization | Yamaha of America |
| Website | yamaha.com/yasi |
The YASI was brought into being in April 1987 as "Yamaha Concert & Artist Services",[5] in the United States, having originated that same year in Paris, France, as "Centre Européen des Activités Artistiques" (C.E.A.A.).[6] For a time, Yamaha managed the program within its new West 57th Street "Yamaha Communications Center", or "YCC" facility, located near Carnegie Hall.[7] YCC closed in 1992.[8] In May 2004, the current facility was opened.[9]
Overview
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Located in the Aeolian Building at 689 Fifth Avenue,[10] the third floor piano salon, an acoustically isolated space originally occupied by a showroom of the Aeolian Piano Company,[11] which made its reputation in organs, reproducing organs, pianos and most particularly piano roll mechanisms and rolls themselves from 1887 until 1985. Encompassing the entire third floor, the piano saloon features a performance venue seating up to 150 and houses a selection of concert grand pianos and "disklavier" performance reproducing pianos.
The program maintains relationships with classical piano performing artists[12] and the performing arts world in general, by extension. Its current quarters occupy two entire floors of the Aeolian Building.[13] This complex includes a hall known as the Yamaha Piano Salon[14] and a brass and woodwind atelier, showroom, and custom shop.[15]
The YASI promotes the professional use of Yamaha pianos by artists, producers, and recording engineers. It also manages a large pool of pianos, placed at dealers and at various venues around the United States.[16] Opera companies and artist management companies have used the salon for opera training,[17] Its facilities include an atelier,[18] a showroom and a custom shop for instruments of the brass and woodwind family.
See also
edit- Yamaha Artist
- Yamaha Entertainment Group
References
edit- ^ Director of Yamaha Artist Services Bonnie Barrett Named To Prestigious Musical America ‘Top 30 Professionals of the Year’ List on PR Web, 12 Dec 2018
- ^ a b A visit to Yamaha Artist Services on Cunningham Piano Co.
- ^ About us on YASI website
- ^ Spoke.com YCA overview
- ^ "For the Piano, Chords of Change (Published 1987)". The New York Times.
- ^ Alink-Argerich Foundation Contact Site
- ^ Music Trades, 1991
- ^ Music Trades 1992
- ^ Music Trades 2004
- ^ City Review Article on Aeolian Building
- ^ American Guild of Organists NYC Chapter
- ^ Beth Levin NY Times Review – 6/2005
- ^ "Streetscapes/The Aeolian Building, Fifth Avenue and 54th Street; The Neo-Classic 1927 Home of the Player Piano (Published 2003)". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2016-03-05.
- ^ Cann Twins Recital Listing 3/2009
- ^ YASI Opening – 2004
- ^ LvTSg Press Release
- ^ Costa Jackson Website
- ^ "Day of Trumpets" Notification