He respectively obtained his bachelor’s degree in engineering from Southeast University, master’s degree in violin performance from Nanjing University of the Arts and doctorate in Western music history from the SHCM. In 2013 and 2014, he was a visiting scholar at the Faculty of Music and St John’s College of the University of Cambridge and was granted an Overseas Visiting Scholarship. He has published more than forty papers, a dozen books (including monograph, co-authoring, translation and music scores) and CDs and directed several national and ministerial research projects. In 2015, Yang was awarded the first prize of the 14th Fok Ying Tung Education Foundation Outstanding Young Teachers of Higher Education, one of the most highly recognized prizes for young scholars in China. His courses for graduate students including: “The Method and Application of Visualized Music Analysis”, “Musical Performance Studies in an Interdisciplinary Perspective”, “Guided Appreciation and Review on the Classic Recordings of the Century”, and courses for undergraduates including: “An Introduction to Music Technology”.
