Ru-Pei

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Cellist Ru-Pei Yeh, who joined the New York Philharmonic in September

2006, has performed regularly as a recitalist in her native Taiwan and

in the U.S. A founding member of the Formosa Quartet, formed in 2003,

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, Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, North Carolina School of

the Arts’s International Music Program Orchestra, and Kuan-Jen School

Orchestra, and is the winner of numerous competitions.

Ms. Yeh, who has been performing professionally since the age of 10,

moved to the U.S. at 13 to study with Orlando Cole at the Temple

Preparatory School. She received her bachelor of music degree from the

New England Conservatory under the tutelage of Laurence Lesser, and

her master’s degree from The Juilliard School in 2004, studying with

Joel Krosnick. She received her artist diploma from Juilliard in 2006.

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