Yu-Jane Yang is Professor of Piano/Piano Pedagogy and the Director of Piano Accompanying and Group Piano Instruction at Weber State University.  She is also the founder and director of the Weber State University Piano Preparatory Program and WSU Kindermusik Program.  She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Piano Performance from National Taiwan Normal University and two Masters degrees, in Piano Pedagogy and in Music Education, from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A.  In 1994 she received her Ph.D. degree with the highest honor from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, U.S.A., in Music Education with double cognates in Piano Pedagogy and Piano Performance.

Dr. Yang's articles on aspects of piano pedagogy have appeared in a number of music journals.  She has given presentations at the National Conference of Keyboard Pedagogy, the World Piano Pedagogy Conference, National Group Piano and Piano Pedagogy Forum, National Conference on Piano Pedagogy, and national conventions of the Music Teachers National Assocaition.  She has conducted piano workshops and master classes in the U.S., Taiwan, Singapore, and China.  She is also active as an adjudicator, including the Utah Symphony Youth Guild Concerto Competition, Utah State University, University of Utah, the state piano competitions of Utah Music Teachers Association, the state competition of Idaho Music Teachers Association, and she was one of four judges for the preliminary auditions of the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition, held in Salt Lake City in December 1997, and February 2006.  She was one of the three national winners of the distinguished D. H. Baldwin Fellowship for Teaching Excellence in Piano in 1991, and appeared in "Who's Who Among America's Teachers" in 1996, 2002, and 2005.

Dr. Yang was the faculty collaborative pianist for the American String Workshop at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor from 1992 to 1996, and for the Classical Music Festival in Austria in 1995 and 1999.  She currently serves as a member of the national committees of the Music Teachers National Association (Collegiate Student Chapter Advisory Committee) and the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy (Adult Learning/Teaching & Intership Pratica committee) in the U.S.A.  She was the state president of Utah Music Teachers Association 2002-2004. In addition to performing with numerous instrumentalists and vocalists, she is the pianist of Wasatch Piano Trio.  Also with her husband, violinist Shi-Hwa Wang, the Formosan Duo has performed extensively in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Canada.