Yang has taught at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, University of California, San Diego, University of Southern California, and Minerva University, where she founded and led the faculty diversity, equity, and inclusion committee. In addition to teaching at Colburn, Yang has a thriving hypnotherapy practice, in which she helps artists overcome performance anxiety and creative blocks.
A pianist (MM, New England Conservatory) and musicologist (Ph.D., Yale), Mina Yang has written two books – Planet Beethoven: Classical Music at the Turn of the Millennium (Wesleyan University Press, 2014) and California Polyphony: Ethnic Voices, Musical Crossroads (University of Illinois Press, 2007) – and numerous essays situating music within larger sociopolitical trends. Yang has taught at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, University of California, San Diego, University of Southern California, and Minerva University, where she founded and led the faculty diversity, equity, and inclusion committee. In addition to teaching at Colburn, Yang has a thriving hypnotherapy practice, in which she helps artists overcome performance anxiety and creative blocks. She has also served as a consultant to Disney Studios, contributed to LA Opera’s newsletter, and was a featured author for the Oregon Bach Festival reading club.
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