School of Music

Ms. Yo obtains Artist Diploma from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She holds a Master of Music degree in Cello Performance and Literature from Louisiana State University and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from National Kaohsiung Normal University. Her primary mentors during her studies were Daniel McDonough, Dennis Parker, Lee-Wen Dai, and Ya-Wen Hsueh.

As a soloist, Ms. Yo has been selected to work closely with Gustav Rivinius and Tsuyoshi Ysutsumi in their master classes. As a cellist with an enormous passion for chamber music, Ms. Yo appeared as a chamber musician in several music festivals, such as the Kirishima International Music Festival in Japan and the Aurora Chamber Music Festival (ACM) in Sweden. As an orchestral musician, Ms. Yo has traveled with the Formosa Philharmonic and performed concerts in France upon the invitation of Les rencontres musicales de Chaon. Ms. Yo is currently served as a sectional cellist in Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra and Sinfonia da Camera.

Ms. Yo has a love for teaching and promoting music in various ways. Since 2013, she has been a private instructor of cello and piano in Taiwan and the USA. She has served as a cello instructor in the Illinois Community Music Academy (ICMA) since 2021. Ms. Yo attended the Teachers Education Program during her college and designed a curriculum which has been very successful in combining performance-based and teacher education courses. During a practicum within her Methods Course, she designed an innovative musical board game for a music class in National Feng-Shan Senior High School, where she received overwhelming responses from students. With a longing mind in music teaching, Ms. Yo work on the Suzuki method and has been certified as a Suzuki cello teacher.

Currently, Ms. Yo is pursuing her doctoral studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with Daniel McDonough of the Jupiter String Quartet.