A ballet girl convertS to Horn

Alice Yang was born in China and moved to Melbourne with her family at the age of ten. She began learning the horn at the age of 11, studying with Xiao Yang and Geoff Collinson. She completed her Bachelor of Music degree with honours in 2013 at the Conservatorium of Music in Melbourne, where she studied with Barry Tuckwell and Geoff Lierse. She currently holds the Richard Merewether French Horn Fellowship at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, where she is completing her Doctorate of Musical Arts, studying with David Thompson. She has also studied with Ben Jacks and Rachel Silver of the SSO. As a chamber musician she was chosen to attend the Sydney Conservatoriums Estivo Chamber Music Summer School in Verona in 2015 and 2016. And as a soloist she has performed Richard Strausss Horn Concerto No.1 with the Ku-ring-gai Philharmonic Orchestra. And why she gave up ballet and play horn? Lucy Chen has more.

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