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Amy Yeung is currently associate professor of music at the University of Tennessee at Martin, where she teaches applied voice, diction, form and analysis, and directs lyric opera theatre. A native of Hong Kong, Amy Yeung has performed extensively in concerts throughout the Asian countries, including Taiwan, Malaysia, Korea, and Hong Kong, as well as in the United States, Germany, Bulgaria, and Croatia. Her performances have been broadcasted in the “Young Music Makers,” and “1815 Caprice” under the auspices of Radio Television Hong Kong. Yeung was recently awarded 2008 Individual Artist Fellowship by the Tennessee Arts Commission. Her solo debut CD with pianist, Jung-Won Shin will be released in Spring 2009.
Yeung is active on the oratorio concert stage, where she has performed as a soloist in Mozart's Coronation Mass in C, Handel's Messiah, Haydn's Te Deum, and Mendelssohn's Christus. She has also performed in Humperdink's Hansel and Gretel, Cimarosa's Il Matrimonio Sergeto, Puccini's Turandot, Lehár's The Merry Widow, and Nelson's A Room with a View. She was awarded full scholarship to study and perform in the Ost-West-Internationalen Musik-Akademie in Altenburg, Germany in 1998.
Yeung holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in voice performance and a Master of Music in music theory from Michigan State University, a Master of Music in voice performance from Texas State University, and a Bachelor of Arts in voice performance from Hong Kong Baptist University. Her mentors include Meredith Zara, Richard Fracker, Leonore Sergi, John Belisle, and Siu-Kwan Chan.