Basic
First Name:
Susie
Last Name:
Yang
City:
Kansas City
State:
Missouri
Country:
USA
First Year:
2004
Last Year:
2006
Biography
Birthday:
2/10/1982
About:
Susie Yang made her solo debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the age of 11. The performance was broadcast on PBS in Chicago and the classical radio station, 98.7 FM. She has appeared as a soloist with many other orchestras in the greater Chicago area as well, such as the Midwest Young Artists Orchestra, Highland Park Strings, Fox Valley Symphony, and the Skokie Valley Symphony. As an avid chamber musician, she won a top prize in the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition and has participated in the Juilliard Quartet Seminar and the Beethoven Intensive Quartet Seminar at the New England Conservatory of Music. She has collaborated with many of the top chamber musicians in the world, such as Donald Weilerstein, Roger Tapping, the Borromeo Quartet, and the Peabody Trio. Susie was also a fellow of the New World Symphony and was a rotating principal under music director, Michael Tilson Thomas. After winning the concerto competition, she performed the Dvořák Cello Concerto with the New World Symphony in 2007. Susie has performed as a soloist, orchestral, and chamber musician at many music festivals, including Sarasota, Schleswig-Holstein, Music Academy of the West, Spoleto Italy and USA, Taos, Yellow Barn, Britt Festival, Summerfest, and Festival Mozaic. Originally from the northwest suburbs of Chicago, Susie holds degrees and numerous scholarship awards from The Juilliard School and New England Conservatory of Music, studying with Andre Emelianoff and Laurence Lesser. In April 2016, Susie performed the Dvorak Cello Concerto as soloist with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra for their classical subscription concerts. Susie moved to Kansas City in the Spring of 2010 to join the Kansas City Symphony as Associate Principal Cello.
Current Primary Activity(ies):
Kansas City Symphony Associate Principal Cello
Education:
NEC
Degree:
MM