Akemi Schubert
Akemi Schubert is a sought after teacher, chamber musician and accompanist and is an official accompanist at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, Melbourne University.
Akemi Schubert was born in Tokyo, Japan and began piano lessons at age 3. She graduated from the prestigious Musashino Music College in Tokyo and studied further in Chicago with Deborah Sobol of the Chicago Chamber Musicians in 1990 Akemi attended the chamber music classes of clarinettists John Bruce Yeh (Chicago Symphony Orchestra) and Michel Arringnon (Professor- Paris Conservatoire). As a member of the Melbourne chamber music ensemble “Ensemblinx”, she has appeared regularly in recital and in live broadcast for the ABC “Sunday Live” series and for 3MBS. In 2011 she appeared at the Australian Clarinet and Saxophone Festival in Melbourne performing with cellist Josephine Vains and clarinettists Robert Schubert, Jeremy Reynolds from the USA and David Thomas (Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Principal Clarinet) at the Melbourne Recital Centre.
Performing as
Old and Yu: The Clarinet Music of Julian Yu, Vol. 2
Catchy short pieces by Julian Yu for clarinet with string quartet, and with cello and piano: playful settings that braid Chinese folksong with oddly familiar classical themes, including Dvořák and Mozart.
Akemi Schubert also appears on
Bach to China with Yu
Volume 3 of Julian Yu’s clarinet music, with Robert Schubert and ensemble in arrangements that join Chinese folk melody to Western classical craft.
China Wind: the clarinet music of Julian Yu, Vol. 1
Five chamber and concertante works for clarinet with strings, piano and flute show Julian Yu drawing on the inner structures of Chinese tradition rather than its surface colour, with remarkable versatility and emotional range.