Danlei Yang

Danlei Yang, born in Chengdu, China, is currently pursuing a Doctoral of Musical Arts degree in Piano Performance under Dr. Scott McBride Smith at KU, where she is a graduate teaching assistant giving private piano lessons and group classes. She joined the KU Community Music School as coordinator in August 2022. Before studying at KU, she was awarded a full scholarship for her Bachelor of Music degree study with Dr. Tamás Ungár at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. She holds a Master of Music degree in piano performance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she was awarded a full-tuition waiver and joined the Piano Laboratory Program as a piano instructor.

You can find Danlei’s 2023 Winter Music Competition piano performance here.