John Bruce Yeh

John Bruce Yeh ( b. 1951 in Washington DC) is an American clarinetist and music educator.

Yeh began to study medicine at UCLA, but has already played at this time first clarinetist in the American Youth Symphony and won the Frank Sinatra Musical Performance Award. From 1975 he studied at the Juilliard School of Music, and the music schools in Aspen, Marlboro and Tanglewood. When his most important mentors he calls Gary Gray, Michele Zukovsky, Harold Wright, Ray Still, Marcel Moyse, Allan Dennis and Mehli Mehta. 1977 brought him Georg Solti as principal bass clarinetist for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, where he acts as principal clarinetist since 1979 and was from 2008 to 2011 first clarinetist. As a guest, he is also working with the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra.

In 1979, Yeh, the group Chicago Pro Musica, which was honored in 1986 with a Grammy. In 1982 he was a prizewinner at the International Music Competition in Munich, winner of the 1985 Naumburg Clarinet Competition in New York. With the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, he played in 1993 under the direction of Neeme Järvi, Carl Nielsen's Clarinet Concerto and 1998 under Pierre Boulez's leadership, the American premiere of Elliott Carter's Clarinet Concerto. With his wife, clarinetist Teresa Reilly, the erhu player Wang Guowei and the pipa player Yang Wei, he founded the quartet Birds and Phoenix, the connection of the Eastern and Western musical traditions dedicated to. It debuted in 2006 with a performance of works by Victoria Bond, Pamela Chen, Lu Pei and Bright Sheng. With his wife and the actors T. Daniel and Laurie Willets he also founded the visual- musical quartet Inventions.

After teaching for more than a quarter century at DePaul University, joined Yeh 2004 to the College for the Performing Arts at Roosevelt University in Chicago. He also gave master classes at the Juilliard School, the Eastman School of Music, the Manhattan Schools of Music, the Cleveland Institute of Music, Northwestern University and the University of Michigan.

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