Yamaha Artist Services, Inc. (also known as YASI)A visit to Yamaha Artist Services on Cunningham Piano Co. is a provider of professional services exclusively for performing music artists, concert venues, performing arts organizations and educational institutions.About us on YASI website Located at 689 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, New York City, YASI is owned by the American subsidiary of Yamaha CorporationSpoke.com YCA overview and features rehearsal, recording and performance spaces for musicians.
The YASI was brought into being in April 1987 as "Yamaha Concert & Artist Services", in the United States, having originated that same year in Paris, France, as "Centre Européen des Activités Artistiques" (C.E.A.A.). For a time, Yamaha managed the program within its new West 57th Street "Yamaha Communications Center", or "YCC" facility, located near Carnegie Hall.Music Trades, 1991 YCC closed in 1992.Music Trades 1992 In May 2004, the current facility was opened.Music Trades 2004
Overview
Located in the Aeolian Building at 689 Fifth Avenue,City Review Article on Aeolian Building the third floor piano salon, an acoustically isolated space originally occupied by a showroom of the Aeolian Piano Company,American Guild of Organists NYC Chapter 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 artistsBeth Levin NY Times Review – 6/2005 and the performing arts world in general, by extension. Its current quarters occupy two entire floors of the Aeolian Building. This complex includes a hall known as the Yamaha Piano SalonCann Twins Recital Listing 3/2009 and a brass and woodwind atelier, showroom, and custom shop.YASI Opening – 2004
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.LvTSg Press Release Opera companies and artist management companies have used the salon for opera training, Its facilities include an atelier,"Day of Trumpets" Notification a showroom and a custom shop for instruments of the brass and woodwind family.
See also Yamaha Artist Yamaha Entertainment Group
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