Sean Terada Yang
pianist | researcher | educator
Equally at home in the concert hall, classroom, and research lab, Sean Terada Yang blends his many loves in music and the sciences to offer one-of-one experiences for devoted listeners and new audiences alike.
RECENT NEWS
Review in Sitka, Alaska
August 2026
The Sitka Sentinel reviews Sean’s performance of Beethoven as one with “absolute control, absolute understanding and intent.”
bath county, va interview
May 2026
Sean previews a piano trio recital featuring Schoenberg’s Verklarte Nacht (Transfigured Night) with the Garth Newel Piano Quartet.
Performance Today Residency
May 2026
Sean joins American Public Media’s Performance Today® program as a Young Artist in Residence in St. Paul, MN.
About
sean
Sean grew up in Memphis, Tennessee with his Chinese father and Japanese mother. Through watching his father heal childhood cancer at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and hearing his mother teach Japanese at the University of Memphis, he became certain that he wanted to combine the two elements of healing and communication.
This desire first appeared in his ambition to become a neurologist. However, a chance encounter with a speech by Director Karl Paulnack of the Boston Conservatory revealed the necessity and healing power of music. From there, Sean has spent over 10 years binding the worlds of music and medicine. He grows more certain that he’s made the right choice between the two; he’ll pursue both in earnest.
“…someday at 8 PM someone is going to walk into your concert hall and bring you a mind that is confused, a heart that is overwhelmed, a soul that is weary. Whether they go out whole again will depend partly on how well you do your craft.” – Karl Paulnack
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