Bang on a Can

Ning Yu was born and raised in China, and started her music education at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing before moving to America at age 15. Her interest in wide varieties of music has taken her to perform in solo, new music ensemble concerts, dance and theater venues throughout United States and other parts of the world. She has performed as a soloist with the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra, the Eastman Wind Ensemble, and has appeared in concerts at the University of Maryland, Tufts University, Yale University, June in Buffalo amongst others. She joined the OBIE award winning theater production of Mabou Mines Dollhouse in 2003. Since then, she has performed at the Sundance Institute, St. Ann’s Warehouse in New York City, Spoleto USA, and has been touring with the productions throughout the US, Israel, Hong Kong, Italy, Spain, Poland, and most recently the Edinburgh Festival. In December, she will appear in a film version of the production on the ARTE French Television. She has also collaborated and performed with Moisès Kauffman and the Tectonic Theatre Project at Sundance, Playwright’s Horizon in New York, and the Arena Stage in Washington D.C. She has been living in New York City since graduating from the Eastman School of Music in 2004. She plays and shares music as often as possible, teaches at the Third Street Music School Settlement, and she is working on a film about the French pianist Alfred Cortot.