Yang Yi Guzheng Academy Students Diana Sun, Jennifer Zhang, Jacquelin Hua, Grace Chen, Joyce Lu, Angela Weng and Bree Zhang received High Honor Awards at the 2013 NJMTA (New Jersey Music Teacher Association) Spring Audition. Ten other students received Honor Awards. All winners played at the Winners Recital on May 11, 2013.

Internationally renowned guzheng virtuoso Ms. Yang Yi, also director of Yang Yi Guzheng Academy and Ensemble, will be a featured soloist performing with the Grant Park Symphony Orchestra at the Grant Park Music Festival on June 21 and June 22 of 2013 for the festival’s 79th season. Grant Park Music Festival is one of America’s …

Yang Yi Guzheng Ensemble 2013 public concert will be held in McAneny Theater of Princeton Day School on June 8, 2013. Some of the ensemble and solo repertories include: 彩雲追月 Rainbow Chasing the Moon         草原之夜 Night on the Steppe 春到拉萨 Spring Coming to Tibetan 恆春耕農歌 Farmer’s Folk Song of Hengchun  潮水 Waves 旱天雷 Arid Day’s …

On April 28, 2013, Princeton Arts Council and Princeton University hosted a gigantic community event – Princeton Communiversity Festival of the Arts. Roads and streets in Princeton University and  downtown Princeton were blocked from 1:00 pm to 6 pm. Yang Yi Guzheng Ensemble were invited to perform at the event and opened up the stage …

Ms. Yang Yi will be judging 2 international guzheng competitions in May and August 2013 North Amercia Internationa Guzheng Competition, to be held from May 16 to 18 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and Third Hong Kong Zheng Contest to be held in Hong Kong from Aug. 12 to Aug. 16, 2013    

Young ensemble members were featured at Edison Chinese School’s Chinese New Year Celebration Gala.  They are Grace Chen, Bree Zhang, Joyce Lu, Angela Weng, Emily Yang, and Bonnie Hu. Age range from 11 to 14.  

2012 Young Musicians Competition Winners from Yang Yi Guzheng Academy were featured at the New Jersey Music Teacher Association 2012 State Conference. From left to right, Grace Chen, Emily Yang, Joyce Lu, Angela Weng, Bree Zhang and Sabrina Ngan, the First Place winners in the Ensemble category, played their winning piece at the Winners Recital. …

 4/28 – 4/29/2012     Uihlein Hall Marcus Center For The Performing Arts   5/11/2012  Carnegie Hall – Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage (Carnegie Hall Presentation – Spring Orchestra Festival) Ms. Yang Yi appeared in 3  concerts with Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra on Iris dévoilée, concerto piece composed by renowned  composer Chen Qi-Gang, the music director of the 2008 …

Mother-Daughter duet performance was featured at the 2012 YYGA Graduation and Students Recital on 5/17/2012 at Windsor Chapel in West Windsor. The only 2012 Academy senior graduate Victoria Wang played solos in addition to her duet with her mother Lindee Ning. We wish Victoria Wang the continued success in her new college life in Stern …