Yue Pan is a violinist who has recently obtained her Master’s Degree in violin performance at Longy School of Music of Bard College, Cambridge, MA.
Her journey as a violinist is unconventional. Her musicianship started on the roof top of a 24-story building, due to the difficulty of finding time and space for practice at the time. For three years, she practiced and had Skype lessons there with Marija Trajkovska, a violinist from Macedonia Philharmonic. The three years’ work prepared her for an opportunity to study in the US. At Longy School of Music of Bard College, she studied with world-class violinist and conductor, Dr. Sean Wang, as well as Grammy nominated violinist Jesse Mills, the co-founder of the Horszowski Trio. During her two years of conservatory education at Longy School of Music of Bard College, she received systematic training in pitch, European written theory, score reading and conducting; she has also delved into disciplined study of chamber music and orchestral playing in the Orchestral Studies class, multiple chamber music groups, and Longy’s special Orchestra Flex program, a reimagined conservatory orchestra, producing three concerts a semester, featuring works from standard repertoire such as Beethoven, Haydn, and Mozart, to compositions by marginalized composers, such as female composers, Asian composers or Longy students and faculties. Studying in Boston had also granted her the opportunity to be actively involved in multiple orchestras, such as the DuBois Orchestra, and Quincy Symphony. Her repertoire ranges from Baroque composers such as J. S. Bach, Classical composers such as Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, to Romantic composers such as Felix Mendelssohn and Johannes Brahms.
You can find Yue’s 2023 European Music Competition violin performance here.