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John Bruce Yeh

Assistant principal clarinetist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, John Bruce Yeh is the orchestra's longest-serving clarinetist in history. Yeh was born in Washington, D.C., in 1957 but grew up mostly in Los Angeles. His parents were both Chinese immigrants; both were scientists but enjoyed music on the side, his father as a singer and his mother as a pianist. Yeh enrolled at the University of California at Los Angeles but continued to play music with various chamber ensembles and as principal clarinetist of the American Youth Symphony. He won the school's Frank Sinatra Musical Performance Award. In 1975, Yeh transferred to the Juilliard School in New York. He also had summer instruction at the Aspen, Marlboro, and Tanglewood festivals. In 1977, at the age of just 19, Yeh was invited by conductor Georg Solti to join the Chicago Symphony as solo bass clarinetist. In 1979, Yeh founded the Chicago Pro Musica chamber ensemble; he remains its director. That group's first recording -- of Stravinsky's L'histoire du Soldat -- won the 1985 Grammy Award for Best New Classical Artist. The year 1979 also saw Yeh elevated to assistant principal clarinetist and E flat clarinetist, a position he continued to hold as of the early 2020s. He won prizes at the Munich International Music Competition and the Naumburg Clarinet Competition in 1982 and 1985, respectively. Yeh released his debut album, Ebony Concerto, on the Reference Recordings label in 1993; the album featured the DePaul University Wind Ensemble and included jazz-influenced concerted works by Stravinsky, Bernstein, Morton Gould, Victor Babin, and Artie Shaw. In addition to numerous solo appearances with the Chicago Symphony, including in the premiere of Elliott Carter's Clarinet Concerto in 1998, Yeh has appeared as guest principal clarinet with the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Seoul Philharmonic. From 2008 to 2011, he was the acting principal clarinetist of the Chicago Symphony. Yeh, who had played in the New York New Music Ensemble as a Juilliard student, retained a strong interest in contemporary music and has had works written for him by Ralph Shapey and other composers. His recordings, several of them made for the Cedille Records label, often feature contemporary music. In 2023, Yeh released the album Chicago Clarinet Classics on Cedille. His daughter, Molly Yeh, is the host of the Food Network's Girl Meets Farm program and is also a percussionist.
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