Eliana Yi, (B.M. '19, M.M. '21) is a private teacher in the East Plano area. She is known for fostering a love for music and piano in her students and her approach toward healthy piano playing. She performs regularly as a solo artist, both live and recorded, on her 5.5" keyboard, a custom-made piano designed for smaller hands. She had the fortune over the last three years to teach in the Seattle area and be a faculty member at the prestigious Chopin Academy of the Arts.

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Eliana graduated from her position as a teaching fellow at the Meadows School of the Arts from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. During her position there, she studied Piano Pedagogy and Performance where she took private instruction with Dr. Carol Leone and teaching supervision with Dr. Cathy Lysinger. During there she was a recipient for the Paul von Katwijk prize and Roy and Sue Johnson Award for Piano Pedagogy.

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Hailing from Austin, Texas, Eliana had an active childhood playing cello and piano in chamber groups, orchestras, and debuting as a recitalist. She has performed around the state of Texas, Washington, and Germany. In 2019, she presented her research on alternatively sized keyboards at the MTNA Piano Pedagogy Collegiate Symposium in Indiana and her research on teaching small handed students at the 2021 NCKP Convention. She is currently a team member and performer for the International Stretto Piano Festivals, a Director for the Crescendo Music Competition, a speaker for Pianists for Alternatively-Sized Keyboards (PASK) and an adjudicator for her local area.