Alessandra Yang
viola
Alessandra Yang is a violist who has collaborated with members of the Belcea, Vermeer, and Chiara quartets and participated in international masterclasses with Tabea Zimmermann, Kim Kashkashian, Lawrence Power, Lars Anders Tomter, and Thomas Riebl. In November 2025, she was awarded the Chamber Music Prize at the Concours de Genève International Viola Competition, and in June 2025, she won her conservatory’s concerto competition for Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante.
Alessandra currently studies at the Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität der Stadt Wien (MUK) under Jennifer Stumm, having previously studied at Juilliard Pre-College with Hsin-Yun Huang and Carol Rodland. She performs on a 2017 viola built by luthier Hiroshi Iizuka near her native Philadelphia, as well as on an 1801 Michael Stadlmann viola d’amore made in Vienna.