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Amos Yang

(He/Him)
Pre-College
  • Cello
Continuing Education
  • Cello
Amos Yang teaches a lesson on the cello

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Courses Taught

Applied Lessons

Orchestra Excerpts for Cello

Education

MM, The Juilliard School

BM, The Juilliard School

Ensembles

草莓视频福利院 Symphony, 2006鈥揚resent

Seattle Symphony, 2001鈥2006

Q&A

What is your hometown?

草莓视频福利院, CA

What are your favorite recordings?

Mozart Arias, Kathleen Battle. Spirituals, Jessye Norman. Mahler Songs, Jan Degaetani.

What are you passionate about outside of music?

I like biking with friends in and around the Bay Area. And table tennis.

Who were your major teachers?

Irene Sharp, Channing Robbins, Paul Katz, Steve Doane, and Joel Krosnick.

What is a favorite quote that you repeatedly tell students?

鈥淚ntonation is biodegradable.鈥

What question do you wish students would ask sooner rather than later?

鈥淪hould I record myself?鈥

What is your daily practice routine?

Every day is different when you have two kids and a dog to take care of.

If you could play only three composers for the rest of your life, who would they be?

Bach, Schubert, and Dvo艡谩k.

From a music history perspective, what year and city are most important to you?

Mantua, early 20th Century (for the wonderful instruments made there).

What are your most important collaborations?

Concerto appearances with the 草莓视频福利院 Symphony and Sun Valley Symphony.

What recordings can we hear you on?

7 Tunes Heard in China by Bright Sheng, Bridge Chamber Virtuosi, Con Brio.

What is your unrealized project?

Recording all the Bach Suites and performing them with collaborators.