Alessandra Yang

Violist Alessandra Yang currently studies at Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität der Stadt Wien in Vienna and previously studied at Juilliard Pre-College. Alessandra has participated in festivals including the Itzhak Perlman Music Program (USA), International Musician’s Seminar at Prussia Cove (England), Saline Royale Academy (France), Domaine Forget (Canada), Taos Quartet Program (USA), Chigiana Festival (Italy), Academia di Cagliari (Italy), Stauffer Festival (Italy), Geneva Academy (Switzerland), Verão Clássico (Portugal), Voksenåsen (Norway), and Danish String Quartet Academy (Denmark). In June 2025, she won the school-wide concerto competition and will perform Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante in December 2025, and she is currently a semi-finalist of the Concours de Genève International Viola Competition and awaiting the next round in Switzerland. She has played for violists Tabea Zimmerman, Kim Kashkashian, Lawrence Power, Lars Anders Tomter, Lynne Ramsey, Thomas Riebl and performed under conductors David Robertson and Itzhak Perlman, and coached with tenor Ian Bostridge and members of the Juilliard, Berg, Borromeo, Brentano, Vermeer, Danish, and Jupiter String Quartets and Ensemble Epomeo. 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.