He also served on the faculties of the Peabody Conservatory, the University of Iowa, Grinnell College, and the Interlochen Advanced String Quartet Institute. Fleg leads a very fast-paced and exciting academic life at SRJC. From 1996 to 2002, he was the cellist in the Maia String Quartet. A Bachelors from the Peabody Conservatory in Maryland, a Masters in Music. His primary teachers have included Irene Sharp, Channing Robbins, Paul Katz, and Steven Doane. Yang holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from The Juilliard School. He was finalist in the Pierre Fournier International Cello Competition and was awarded the CD Jackson Prize at the Tanglewood Music Festival for outstanding musical contribution.īorn and raised in San Francisco, he was a member of the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra and San Francisco Boys Choir. During this transitional year, he said, Peabody’s jazz department has received 52 applications for admission for the 2018-19 academic year,a marked increase from the 29 it received for the. Yang's awards include the Performer's Certificate at the Eastman School of Music and first prizes in the American String Teachers Association and Grace Vamos competitions. He has collaborated with the Ying Quartet, Turtle Island String Quartet, pianists Ann Schein and Melvin Chen, violinist Earl Carlyss, and composer Bright Sheng.
Yang has performed as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States, the Far East, and Europe, appearing at the Aspen Music Festival, the American Academy in Rome, Wigmore Hall, and Alice Tully Hall.
He was previously a member of the Seattle Symphony. Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and BelongingĪmos Yang has been assistant principal cellist with the San Francisco Symphony since 2007.Academic Support and Disability Services.
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