About the Instructors
With decades of teaching experience, our instructors are dedicated to guiding each student in their musical journey.
Ms. Eva Peng
Specializes in beginning and intermediate piano and voice lessons.
Lyric soprano Eva Peng discovered her love of music in early childhood. A passionate teacher, Ms. Peng has taught music lessons for over 30 years.
Peng served, for many years, as the resident soprano soloist for the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in her native China. During her tenure with the company, she was able to sing and study under the direction of numerous world-famous conductors including the late Herbert von Karajan. She was the subject of a cover story in China’s TV Guide following a nationally televised concert at Guangzhou’s Friendship Theatre and appeared in a special command performance for former Chinese premier Jiang Zemin.
Since immigrating to the United States, she has appeared in numerous recitals and concerts. She performed at the Redlands Bowl Summer Music Festival, the American Liszt Society, University of Bournemouth musical society, Imperial College, London, and the University of Belgrade, Serbia. She appeared with Bismarck/Mandan Symphony, singing music of Mozart and Leonard Bernstein. In the theater, Peng has performed the role of Maria in The Sound of Music, and in productions of Bastien and Bastienna and Sor Angelica.
An active educator, she has taught as an adjunct voice instructor at Northwest Missouri State University and Northcentral Missouri College. She is now a freelance musician and teaches in her private studio in the Northland area of Kansas City. She has served as a board member for the Ann Arbor Piano Teachers Guild, and the Kansas City Music Teachers Association. She studied at the University of Southern California, the University of Nebraska at Omaha and at the WuHan Conservatory of Music, and her primary teachers have included Natalie Limonick, Bard Suverkrop and Xiao Yan Zhou.
Dr. Anthony Olson
Specializes in advanced piano lessons.
Pianist Anthony Olson has performed throughout the United States, China and Europe and has even had live recordings broadcast on National Public Radio. Active as both a soloist and a chamber musician, he explores a wide range of solo and chamber works, including new music written especially for him.
Olson has performed at Redlands Bowl Summer Music Festival, The Festival for Creative Pianists, presented recitals at Imperial College, London, Bournemouth University, the Nanjing Conservatory, China, and in recitals sponsored by a large number of local concert series and arts councils throughout the Midwest and Western states. He appeared with the Bismark/Mandan Symphony in George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. He has had performances broadcast on Kansas Public Radio, KSCI TV, Channel 18, Los Angeles and Nanjing Broadcasting, Jiang-Shu province, China.
A dedicated educator, Dr. Anthony Olson is Professor of Music (piano, organ, and harpsichord) at Northwest Missouri State University. He has also taught as a guest professor at Imperial College, London, Kyunbuk University, South Korea, and the Roosevelt Academy, in The Netherlands.
Olson has presented lectures at conferences of the European Piano Teachers Association, World Piano Association, MTNA’s national conference, and the College Music Society. He has published articles in the Piano Journal, American Music Teacher, Clavier Companion, and Classical Singer Magazine.
He studied at the University of Southern California, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities, and the University of North Dakota. His primary teachers include Daniel Pollack, Arthur Houle and Greg Allen.
The Lyric Duo
Together, Ms. Peng and Dr. Olson perform as the Lyric Duo, offering unique concert programs that explored a wide variety of songs, arias, chamber music and solo piano works.
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