Shuo Vincent Yang - will be a Junior attending the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California. Vincent has previously won Musical Merit Foundation scholarships in 2009 and 2010. In 2009, Vincent made his orchestral debut with the Torrance Symphony performing Grieg’s A minor Piano Concerto. He has won prizes at the Los Angeles Liszt International Piano Competition; the 5th prize in 2008 in Division III and 1st in 2010 in Division IV.

Vincent is also a YMF Lieber-Stoller scholar and Leni Fe Bland scholar. In 2009 Vincent attended the Vianno Do Costello Music Festival in Portugal under a full scholarship. He is currently studying with Dr. Stewart Gordon at USC, and his previous teachers include Kevin Fitz-Gerald, Tomasz Aleksander and Evangeline Hung. In his free time, Vincent enjoys watching and playing a variety of sports.