edna-yeh

Edna Yeh is a composer, conductor, and singer based in Oakland, California. Her choral music spans both traditional classical styles and modern experimental works. She is a 2021 winner of the HerVoice competition sponsored by Chicago a cappella and the Kansas City Chorale. Recent commissions include works for Voci Women’s Vocal Ensemble and Sacred and Profane Chamber Chorus.

One of Yeh’s greatest passions is music for women’s chorus. She is the founder and artistic director of Vox Alta, a collaborative chamber ensemble for sopranos and altos. Edna also serves as assistant conductor of Sacred & Profane Chamber Chorus and music director of The Dulcet Four. She founded and formerly directed Concentus Women’s Chorus (Rochester, New York) and Pacific Women’s Chorus (San Diego, California).

She was born in Ellensburg, Washington, where she received her early musical training in piano and violin. Yeh was first introduced to choral music as an undergraduate at Harvard University, and eventually earned her Master of Music (Music Theory) from the University of Texas at Austin, where she studied music theory with Douglass Green, choral conducting with Morris Beachy and Craig Hella Johnson, and organ with Frank Speller.

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Color— Caste— Denomination—Voicing: SSSSAAAA  Instrumentation: Unaccompanied  Performance Length: 5:00  Notation: Aleatoric passages  Text Source: Emily Dickinson  Language: English  Descriptive Terms: Diversity, Humanity, Time, Death  First Performance: May 22, 2022 : Vox Musica, Daniel I. Paulson, Beatnik Studios, Sacramento, CA    Text SettingSource for Scores(P:E 1214/1705~2023-Q1)
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