Pianist Wei-Yi Yang has received worldwide acclaim for his captivating performances and imaginative programming.  Winner of the gold medal at the San Antonio International (now ‘The Gurwitz’) Piano Competition, he has performed at Lincoln Center, the John F. Kennedy Center, and across America, Asia, Europe, and Australia.  His Carnegie Hall debut as the soloist in Messiaen’s Turangalîla-Symphonie was hailed by The New York Times as “sensational.”  As an educator, Yang has performed and taught throughout Scotland, Ireland, Austria, Germany, Italy, and Spain, among other countries worldwide. Most recently, his master class teaching has taken him to Northwestern, Manhattan School of Music, New England Conservatory, Tsinghua University, and China Conservatory. 

A dynamic musician with a diverse repertoire, Yang is a frequent guest artist at festivals in Italy, Spain, Serbia, Mexico, Germany, Holland, and La Jolla and Napa in California.  He frequently collaborates with ensembles such as the Imani Winds and the Brentano, Miró, Dover, Pacifica, and Tokyo string quartets.  Yang’s performances have been featured on NPR, PBS, RAI, ARTE, the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Company), and on recordings for Genuin, Hyperion, Naxos, Albany Records, Renegade Classics, and the Holland-America Music Society labels. 

Born in Taiwan of Chinese and Japanese heritage, Yang studied first in the United Kingdom and then in the US with renowned Russian pianists Arkady Aronov at the Manhattan School of Music and Boris Berman at Yale.  Yang has also worked with eminent pianists Claude Frank, Peter Frankl, Vera Gornostaeva, Byron Janis, Lilian Kallir, and Murray Perahia.  In 2004, he received his doctorate from Yale University, where he joined the School of Music’s faculty in 2005.