
Yang Jiao is a graduate of Central Conservatory of
Music in Beijing, where he studied conducting with Professor Xin Xu and Maestro
Yi Zhang and was assistant conductor to Maestro Yongyan Hu. He is currently pursuing his Master of
Music in Orchestral Conducting at Yale School of Music, where he studies with
Maestro Shinik Hahm.
In 2006, Mr. Jiao won Third Prize at the Shenzhen
National Conducting Competition in China. Since that time, he has been invited
to conduct at the Beijing Modern Music Festival annually. In 2007, Mr. Jiao took part in the
London Symphony Orchestra’s Asia Tour, where he attended a master class with
Maestro Daniel Harding and conducted the famous orchestra.
Since 2007, Mr. Jiao has been the resident guest
conductor of the Lanzhou Symphony Orchestra and the resident conductor of the
Beijing Institute of Technology University Symphony Orchestra. He has also been the conductor of the
Golden Tail Symphony Orchestra of Beijing No. 22 Middle School Symphony
Orchestra and EOS Orchestra Academy; he led performances of both orchestras in
2009 at the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing. Mr. Jiao has also received warm praise by local audiences
and critics for the performances of the Golden Tail Symphony Orchestra during
their 2010 France Tour.
Additionally, Mr. Jiao has conducted many other
ensembles in his home of China and abroad, including: China Youth Symphony
Orchestra, Chorus of China Youth Symphony Orchestra, Chorus of China
Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra, China Opera and Dance Symphony Orchestra,
China Central Opera Symphony Orchestra, China Youth Chinese Orchestra, China
Central Chinese Orchestra, Chorus of Shanghai Opera, Shenzhen Symphony
Orchestra, Jiangsu Symphony Orchestra, Zhejiang Symphony Orchestra, Kunming Symphony
Orchestra, Macau Youth Symphony Orchestra and most recently, The Philharmonia
Orchestra of Yale.
Though studying and working as a conductor, Mr. Jiao
has never abandoned playing piano to this day. In August 2004, he won Second
Prize in the First National Piano Competition for the German Beethoven
Festival. The piano trio, established for only one year at the time, recently
produced its first recording. Mr.
Jiao later performed Arnold Schoenberg’s Ode to Napoleon together with the Shanghai String Quintet
and professor Michael Friedmann from Yale University.