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David Yang, viola

David Yang, viola

Biography

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Violist David Yang

Admired for his intensity, honesty of musical expression, and passionate communication, David Yang has been heard throughout North America and Europe in collaboration with members of the Avalon, Borromeo, Brentano, Cassatt,  Lark, Miro, and Tokyo String Quartets and Eroica Trio, Trio Cavatina, and Eliot Fisk, Andriusz Zlabys, and Wendy Warner, amongst others. He is also the recent recipient of an artist fellowship from the Independence Foundation in Philadelphia, PA awarded to a small number of “exceptional artists” in the region. Concert highlights include performances of Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante for violin, viola and orchestra in Italy, Canada and Wales along with recitals in Italy, the UK and throughout the Northeast USA. As an active advocate of new music he has premiered dozens of works in the last few years including the commissioning of new works by composers Robert Capanna, Daniel Dorff, Jeremy Gill, David Laganella, Gerald Levinson, David Ludwig, Jay Reise, Anna Weesner, and Andrew Waggoner.

He is Founder and Artistic Director of the Newburyport Chamber Music Festival near Boston, MA . In his role as leader of the Philadelphia-based storytelling music troupe Auricolae, he has developed a residency program to foster the creation of new compositions by public school students in Philadelphia and the surrounding region. Auricolae recordings are available on the New Focus label. Born and raised in New York City he studied with Martha Strongin Katz and Heidi Castleman and also has a Master’s degree in architecture from the University of Pennsylvania and worked in the atelier of legendary Italian architect Aldo Rossi and eminent American architect Hugh Hardy in New York City. Director of Chamber Music at the University of Pennsylvania, he now lives in South Philadelphia with his two daughters, Eliana Razzino and Alessandra Pierson Yang. David’s father is the eminent landscape photographer John Yang and his mother, Linda Gureasko Yang, was a reporter for the New York Times.
He plays on a viola made by the viola da gamba maker Johannes Tielka in 1670 and previously owned by Brahms’ friend Joseph Joachim.
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