Alessandra Yang

Violist Alessandra Yang has collaborated with members of the Belcea, Vermeer, and Chiara quartets and Ensemble Epomeo and, in 2025, was awarded the Chamber Music Prize and reached semifinals of the Concours de Genève International Viola Competition. Alessandra has participated in festivals including the Itzhak Perlman Music Program (USA), International Musician’s Seminar at Prussia Cove (England),  Newburyport Chamber Music Festival (USA), Saline Royale Academy (France), Domaine Forget (Canada), Taos Quartet Program (USA), Chigiana Festival (Italy), Academia di Cagliari (Italy), Stauffer Festival (Italy), Geneva  International String Academy (Switzerland), Verão Clássico (Portugal), Voksenåsen (Norway), and Danish String Quartet Academy (Denmark). She has worked with violists Tabea Zimmerman, Kim Kashkashian, Lawrence Power, Lars Anders Tomter, and Thomas Riebl, and coached with tenor Ian Bostridge and members of the Juilliard, Berg, Borromeo, Brentano, Danish, and Jupiter String Quartets. She currently studies at Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität der Stadt Wien (MUK) with Jennifer Stumm where she won the school-wide concerto competition in 2025,  and previously studied at Juilliard Pre-College with Hsin-Yun Huang and Carol Rodland. As a historical performer, Alessandra performs on baroque viola and viola d’amore and has worked with conductor John Eliot Gardiner and violinists Lina Tur Bonet and Cynthia Roberts. Alessandra plays on a viola built miles from home in her native Philadelphia by legendary luthier Hiroshi Iizuka, and an 1801 Michael Stadlmann viola d'amore made in Vienna.