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Chooi and cellist Thomas Mesa. She has appeared A staunch believer in community-building through
as co-host and collaborative pianist with NPR’s From music, Cann has served as the director of two
The Top, collaborating with actor/conductor Damon children’s choruses in the El Sistema-inspired
Gupton, violinist Leila Josefowicz and violinist and program Play On Philly and was part of the inaugural
MacArthur Fellow Vijay Gupta. Cann’s numerous class of ArtistYear fellows at the Curtis Institute of
media appearances include PBS Great Performances’ Music. Through ArtistYear, she worked with community
Now Hear This hosted by Scott Yoo and Living the partners City Year, Teach for America and
Classical Life with host Zsolt Bognár. AmeriCorps to provide arts education and access to
Embracing a dual role as performer and pedagogue, underserved communities in Philadelphia.
Cann is frequently invited to teach master classes, Cann holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in piano
give lecture-demonstrations and lead teaching performance from the Cleveland Institute of Music,
residencies. Recent residencies include the Gilmore where she studied with Paul Schenly and Dr. Daniel
International Keyboard Festival and the National Shapiro, and an Artist’s Diploma from the Curtis
Conference of the Music Teachers National Institute of Music, where she studied with Robert
Association. She has recorded lessons for tonebase, McDonald. She joined the Curtis piano faculty in
the popular piano lesson platform. She has also 2020 as the inaugural Eleanor Sokoloff Chair in
served on the juries of the Cleveland International Piano Studies. She joined the piano faculty of the
Piano Competition, the Kaufman Music Center Manhattan School of Music in 2023.
International Youth Piano Competition and the piano www.michellecann.com
competition of the Music Academy of the West.
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