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Yakov Kasman is a dedicated teacher with more than twenty years of pedagogical experience.
 
Mr. Kasman is a graduate of world famous Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, a place with legendary teaching traditions. Kasman studied there with Mikhail Voskresensky, one the most sought-after Russian professors and pianists.
 
Yakov Kasman served as a faculty member of College by Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, Russia. Now he is a Professor of Piano/Artist-in-Residence at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. In addition, he provides private piano lessons to the students and teachers of Birmingham Area and nationally.
 
Mr. Kasman has been a guest teacher at Conservatory of Puerto Rico, PianoTexas International Academy and Festival, Southeastern Piano Festival,  International Summer Music Academy in Kiev, Ukraine, and  more. He regularly gives master-classes around the world, including numerous master-classes at US colleges and universities, master-classes at Brevard and Sewanee Music Festivals, MTNA National Conference, Alabama Music Teachers Association and Oregon Music Teachers Assosiation State Conferences, Tel'Aviv Music Academy and Jerusalem Conservatory in Israel, Moscow College by Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory and Orel State Music College in Russia, Ecole Normale Alfred Cortot and Yamaha Centre in Paris, France.
 
Yakov Kasman’s students successfully continue their music education in such prominent  institutions as University of Alabama, University of Kansas, University of Michigan, Texas Christian University, New England Conservatory, Manhattan School of Music, Eastman School of Music, Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory and others.
 
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UAB piano studio 2007
After UAB piano studio recital
with Cahill Smith at UAB
Conservatory of Puerto Rico, 1999
with Daniel Pesca
Master-Class at PianoTexas 2006
Master-Class at PianoTexas 2006
Master-Class at PianoTexas 2006
Master-Class at PianoTexas 2006
With Larisa Bunakova, Orel State Music College, Orel, Russia, 2007
Yuri Kot, Kseniia Polstiankina, the Kasmans, the Forstmans, Iryna Polstiankina, Summer Music Academy
with Aleksey Kovalenko, Summer Music Academy 2008
With Maeve Brophy, Summer Music Academy, Kiev 2008
Summer Music Academy, Kiev 2008, after Y. Kasman's student recital
Summer Music Academy, Kiev 2008
with N.M. Naydich, Nastya Trembach and Dmitry Choni, Summer Academy, Kiev 2010
Dana Zemtsov (Belgium), Kseniia Polstiankina(Ukraine), Yakov Kasman (Russia-USA), Nikolay Manakov(Ru
UAB piano studio 2010, after studio recital