Alessandra Yang

Violist Alessandra Yang has participated in festivals including Saline Royal Academy (France), Prussia Cove (England), the Perlman Music Program (USA), the Danish String Quartet Academy (Copenhagen), and Domaine Forget (Quebec), and performed in masterclasses with Lynne Ramsey, Ivo-Van Jan Der Werff, Michel Michalakakos, and Thomas Riebl.  She has collaborated with members of the Vermeer and Chiara String Quartets and Ensemble Epomeo and performed with the Poor Richard Chamber Music Society (Philadelphia). Alessandra also has an abiding interest in historical performance and has performed with baroque orchestra Tempesta di Mare. She currently studies at the Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität (Vienna, Austria) in the studio of Jennifer Stumm and attended Juilliard Pre-College under the tutelage of Hsin-Yun Huang. She also enjoys exploring philosophy and has taken classes at Freogen Fellowship, the inaugural Forbidden Courses program at the University of Austin, and  as a fellow of the Hertog Foundation. Alessandra plays on a 2017 Hiroshi Iizuka viola, made locally in her native Philadelphia, and on an 1801 Michael Stadlmann viola d'amore made in Vienna.