Cellist Ru-Pei Yeh, The Credit Suisse Chair in honor of Paul Calello, joined the New York Philharmonic in 2006. A founding member of the Formosa Quartet, she has served as acting principal cello of the San Diego Symphony and the San Diego Opera, in addition to performing with a string quartet of principal players from the San Diego Symphony. She has made solo appearances with the Hudson Valley Philharmonic, National Taiwan Symphony, Taiwan’s Evergreen Symphony Orchestra, Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, North Carolina School of the Arts’s International Music Program Orchestra, and Kuan-Jen School Orchestra. A winner of numerous competitions, she has performed regularly as a recitalist in her native Taiwan and the United States. Yeh, who has been performing professionally since the age of 10, moved to the US at age 13 to study at the Temple Preparatory School. She received her bachelor’s degree from New England Conservatory, under the tutelage of Laurence Lesser, and received her master’s degree and artist diploma from The Juilliard School, studying with Joel Krosnick.
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