Biography
Yihao is earning a Performance Diploma from Manhattan School of Music, studying with Thomas Muraco, where he also serves as staff pianist. He has participated in the 2022 SongFest, the 2018 Castleman Quartet Program, and the 2015 Round Top Festival Institute. Yihao was the winner of the 2016 Macalester College Concerto Competition and has received both the Freundlich Memorial Scholarship and P. & A. Shaffer Scholarship from The Juilliard School, as well as an Artistic Excellence Fellowship from Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.
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