{"id":612,"date":"2021-12-07T11:52:17","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T17:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/directory\/?post_type=uwsp_faculty&#038;p=14159"},"modified":"2022-09-30T10:41:18","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T15:41:18","slug":"thomas-yang","status":"publish","type":"uwsp_directory","link":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/directory\/profile\/thomas-yang\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Yang"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">BIO<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Thomas Yang joined the ASC faculty in 1999. Born in New Jersey, he did his undergraduate work at Bucknell University where he received a Bachelor of Music degree in Music History. Following his studies at Bucknell, he went on to earn a Master of Music in piano performance at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and later to do work towards a piano performance doctorate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Tom\u2019s varied experience has included teaching in a private studio in Marshfield, at the Wausau Conservatory of Music and at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. For the twelve years immediately prior to joining ASC, Tom worked as a computer programmer for the Marshfield Clinic in Marshfield, Wisconsin.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Community Involvement<\/h4>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>Math tutor, McKinley School, Stevens Point, WI<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Professional Memberships<\/h4>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>Suzuki Association of The Americas<\/li>\r\n<li>Music Teacher National Association<\/li>\r\n<li>Wisconsin Music Teacher Association<\/li>\r\n<li>Stevens Point Area Music Teacher Association<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Presentations\/Publications<\/h4>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Past 5 years.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>Faculty Recital, 2019, at UWSP.<\/li>\r\n<li>Performances at American Suzuki Institute (ASI), Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum.<\/li>\r\n<li>Senior Recitals for American Suzuki Center Students.<\/li>\r\n<li>Produced video monodramas for ASI, Tupman the Turtle (2020) and Penelope, the Piano Playing Penquin (2021).<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\r\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ve got to concentrate on each play, each hitter, each pitch.\u00a0 All this makes the game slower and much clearer.\u00a0 It breaks down to its smallest part.\u00a0 If you take the game like that \u2013 one pitch, one hitter, one inning at a time, and then one game at a time \u2013 the next thing you know, you look up and you\u2019ve won.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<cite>Rick Dempsey, major league catcher <\/cite><\/blockquote>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Yang teaches Piano at Aber Suzuki Center at University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":613,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"phone":"","email":"thomas.yang@uwsp.edu","office":"150 Noel Fine Arts Center","title":"","building":"","room":"","website":"","bio":"","image":"","pronouns":"","first_name":"Thomas","last_name":"Yang","position-type":["Faculty"],"education":[{"degree":"DM (in progress) - Piano Performance","school":"University of Wisconsin - Madison","year":""},{"degree":"MM - Piano Performance","school":"University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill","year":""},{"degree":"BM - Music History","school":"Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA","year":""}],"courses":[],"titles":[]},"department":[17,9],"class_list":["post-612","uwsp_directory","type-uwsp_directory","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","department-aber-suzuki-center","department-cofac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uwsp_directory\/612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uwsp_directory"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/uwsp_directory"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"department","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/department?post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}