Sylvie Yannello
Music Coordinator
BA NYU, Music & Psychology
Sylvie is a pianist, drummer, teacher, and arranger of music. A lifelong student, she studied classical piano in her home town for ten years under Mrs. Helga Hulse, and rock and ragtime piano in New York City under Dr. Mark Birnbaum. She also studied audio technology in the graduate program at NYU’s Steinhardt School of Education. She studied drums with Matt Ritter from 2012-2019. In 2018 she took some blues piano lessons from David Bennett Cohen.
Sylvie has played professionally as a cocktail pianist, wedding pianist, and church accompanist, and has played for musical theatre productions as solo accompanist and also as part of an ensemble. She was the drummer in the Brooklyn-based rock band Her and the Grey from 2014-2016, and in the pop-soul quartet Phanrosy from 2018 to 2020. In 2014 she published piano/vocal arrangements of five songs by Elvis Costello. Her debut EP of original music Treacle & Vitriol was released on 1 April 2021.
Sylvie joined Rose Academy in 2013.
