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| Cellist Clara Yang has appeared in numerous
solo, chamber music, and orchestral performances at major
venues and festivals across the United States and internationally. She
earned her bachelors and masters degrees at the Juilliard
School where she studied with Joel Krosnick, and earned her
Professional Studies Diploma at the Mannes College of Music
under Timothy Eddy. While at The Juilliard School,
Miss Yang was a recipient of the Grunin Prize in Cello, the
Victor Herbert Prize and also received the Leonard Rose Scholarship. Miss
Yang has appeared as a soloist with th e Vancouver Symphony
Orchestra and the New England Conservatory Youth Orchestra,
among others. She has given concerts at Carnegie Hall,
Lincoln Center's Avery Fischer Hall, and Alice Tully Hall
and at the United Nations General Assembly Hall. She
has won prizes in the Boston Symphony Concerto Competition,
Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, and the New
England Conservatory Concerto Competition, among others. Miss
Yang has served as principal and assistant principal cellist
for the Aspen Music Festival Orchestra, Juilliard Orchestra,
Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, and the New England Conservatory
Youth Philharmonic Orchestra, and has collaborated with conductors
including James DePreist, Charles Dutoit, James Levine, Kurt
Masur, Seiji Ozawa, and David Robertson. She is a
past participant of the Aspen Music Festival and School,
Tanglewood Music Festival, Juilliard String Quartet Seminar,
Yellow Barn Summer Festival, and Kneisel Hall Chamber Music
Festival. Recently, Miss Yang was invited by the Kumho
Asiana Cultural Foundation to perform chamber music as part
of a cultural exchange project on a tour of Central America,
including performances in Panama, Guatemala, and Costa Rica,
which were also broadcasted on national television. Miss
Yang will give a debut recital in Carnegie's Weill Recital
Hall in 2008 as a winner of Artists International's Special
Presentation Award. Miss Yang received her certification
in Suzuki cello pedagogy at the School for Strings in New
York City under Pamela Devenport. She also serves as cello
faculty at Bloomingdale School of Music, Center for Preparatory
Studies in Music at Queens College, and the Preparatory Center
for Music, Theater and Dance at Brooklyn College. |
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