YUE YANG (violin) holds a Master of Music degree from Lynn Conservatory and recently studied to complete her professional performance certificate at Lynn University Conservatory of Music, where she studied with professor Carol Cole. From September 2019 to July 2021, she played in the first violin section of the Ningbo Symphony Orchestra in Ningbo, China. Yang has made solo appearances with the orchestra in concert halls such as Shanghai Oriental Arts Center, Ningbo Grand Theater, and Ningbo Cultural Plaza Grand Theater. Yang was born in Panzhihua, China and started learning the violin at age four. Only one year later she demonstrated her talent by winning the city’s instrumental competition. By the age of ten, Yang already performed several solo recitals. Yang completed her undergraduate studies in music at Bryn Mawr College. She has collaborated as a soloist with the Bryn Mawr-Haverford College Orchestra, the National Music Festival Orchestra, and Lynn Philharmonia. In 2019 she was the recipient of Boca West Scholarship and Strings Scholarship at Lynn Conservatory; that summer, she won second place as well as the audience favorite prize at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Young Artist Competition at the Texas Music Festival. In November 2021, as concerto competition winner she performed Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No.1 with Lynn Philharmonia. Yang plays a William Hill & Sons violin made in 1895.