Olivia Yong is a senior at Garnet Valley High School in Glen Mills, Pennsylvania. Her musical life began at the piano, where she discovered a love for classical music that only deepened with time. In fourth grade she picked up the flute and found her voice. She now performs with the Delaware County Youth Orchestra, her high school’s Wind Ensemble, and the pit orchestra for her school’s musical productions, As a junior, she was selected for both the PMEA District 12 Band and the PMEA Region 6 Band, and she received an Honorable Mention in the Senior Winds division of the 2025 Tri-County Youth Festival. She is also a member of the Tri-M Music Honor Society. Olivia’s years of pre-professional ballet training at Brandywine Ballet shape her musicianship. Dance taught her to feel phrasing as movement and to listen for the breath within a line.
Watch Olivia Yong perform La Flûte de Pan, Op. 15 (1st Movement) by Jules Mouquet on the flute for the 2026 Instrumental Music Competition as part of the Charleston International Music Competition.