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Sunday, 4pm
Alicia Yang, violin, and friends
Alicia Yang, Violin
Former Oregon Symphony violinist Alicia Yang currently can be found performing with such
renowned ensembles as the San Francisco Symphony, Philharmonia Baroque, San Francisco Opera, San Francisco Ballet, and the Sun Valley Summer Symphony. She has concertized through Europe and the U.S., including with such lauded orchestras as the Kennedy Center Opera, the Seattle Symphony, and the Orquesta Sinfonica de Castilla y Leon (Spain). Ms. Yang specializes in historically-informed violin performance, and has appeared with period-instrument ensembles across the US including the Smithsonian Chamber Players, Carmel Bach Festival, and American Bach Soloists. Her training from the Oberlin and New England Conservatories spans genres from Renaissance to contemporary, and she has recorded a contemporary music album on the Opus One label.
Polina Sedukh, violin
Born to a family of musicians in St. Petersburg, Russia, violinist Polina Sedukh began studying violin at the age of four with her father. She is a graduate of Special Music School of the St. Petersburg Conservatory, and the Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory as well as the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, MA, where she studied with Laura Bossert and Malcolm Lowe. Prizewinner of the International Spohr Competition in Weimar, Germany, Ms. Sedukh made her solo orchestral debut at the age of seven with the Chamber Orchestra of Liepaya, Latvia and has since appeared as soloist with St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra, Boston Virtuosi Orchestra, St.Petersburg Capella Symphony Orchestra, Newton Symphony Orchestra and Weimer State Capella Orchestra. Before joining the second violin section of the SF Symphony in 2007, she was a member of the Boston Symphony for three years.
Caroline Lee, viola
Violist and founder/artistic director of Community Concerts at Epworth Caroline Lee hasperformed throughout the US and Canada as an orchestral player as well as a chambermusician and recitalist. She is currently a member of the San Francisco Ballet orchestra andalso performs regularly with the San Francisco Opera Orchestra and San Francisco Symphony. Before relocating to the Bay area, Caroline was a member of the Kansas City Symphony for eight years and also performed regularly with the Chicago Symphony and Philadelphia Orchestra. Caroline received her bachelor in music degree at the University of Michigan and her masters and Artist Diploma at Yale School of Music.
Amos Yang, cello
Amos Yang joined the San Francisco Symphony in 2007 as Assistant Principal Cello. He also currently holds the position of Principal cello at the Sun Valley Music Festival and is a faculty member at the SFCM. He was previously a member of the Seattle Symphony. Born and raised in San Francisco, he was a member of the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra and San Francisco Boys Choir and holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Juilliard School. He has performed as soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States, including regular appearances with the Seattle Chamber Music Society and at the Olympic Music Festival, and from 1996 to 2002 he was the cellist in the Maia String Quartet. He has served on the faculties of the Peabody Conservatory, the University of Iowa, Grinnell College and the Interlochen Advanced String Quartet Institute. He has also served as a mentor for the San Francisco Symphony Community of Music Makers program.
Isabel Yang, mezzo-soprano
Isabel Yang is a Chinese-American mezzo-soprano from San Francisco, California. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Vocal Performance from Northwestern University, where she was a recipient of the Bienen Endowed Music Scholarship and graduated with honors. Notable operatic roles include Nancy/Albert Herring with Northwestern Opera Theater (2024), Fleur/The Hunt with Northwestern’s Cosmia Opera Collective, and Le Prince/Cendrillon at Miami Music Festival (2026). Yang specializes in new music as well as traditional opera, and has appeared as a soloist multiple times with Northwestern’s Contemporary Music Ensemble. Passionate about new music, she served as an executive officer of Cosmia Opera Collective, an organization dedicated to showcasing the work of living composers from historically marginalized backgrounds in classical music. Isabel is currently based in San Francisco, where she serves as the Premier Ensemble Assistant for the San Francisco Girls Chorus and as a vocal coach for San Mateo High School’s choral program.