Dr. Yu-Jane Yang is the Piano Area Head and Professor in Piano/ Piano Pedagogy and Director of the Piano Preparatory Program at Weber State University in Utah. She was the State President of Utah Music Teachers Association 2002-2004. She holds a BA degree from National Taiwan Normal University and two Masters degrees from University of Illinois. She received her Ph.D. degree with the highest honor from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) in 1994. Yu-Jane’s principal piano teachers in the U. S. include Lydia Artymiw, Nina Lelchuk, and Kenneth Drake, and she studied Piano Pedagogy under Joanne Smith at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and James Lyke at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana. She served as the faculty collaborative pianist for the American String Workshop at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) from 1992 to 1996, and for the Classical Music Festival in Austria in
1995 and 1999. In addition to performing with numerous instrumentalists and vocalists, Yu-Jane is the pianist of the Wasatch Piano Trio and Formosan Violin-Piano Duo, and has performed extensively in concert tours to Asia, Europe, Canada, and the United States.

      In demand as a clinician and master class teacher both nationally and internationally, Dr. Yang has given piano workshops and master classes in the U.S., Taiwan, Singapore, and China. She appears frequently as an adjudicator for piano competitions, including the Idaho Music Teachers Association State Piano Performance Competitions, the Utah Music Teachers Association State Piano Performance Competitions, the Nevada Music Teachers Association State Piano Performance Competitions, and the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition preliminary auditions held in Salt Lake City in 1997,  2006, and 2008. She has written many articles on various topics of piano teaching published in leading journals of Piano Pedagogy in the U.S. Her piano students have been top prizewinners in the collegiate and pre-college divisions in the state level UMTA piano competitions and concerto competitions in Utah, the Utah State Fair, Montana Symphony Concerto Competition, as well as the first place winners in the International Festival for Creative Pianists Competition, and the Coeur d'Alene Symphony's Young Artist Competition.

      Recognized as a leading educator in the field of Piano Pedagogy in the U.S., Dr. Yang was one of the three national winners of the distinguished D. H. Baldwin Fellowship for Teaching Excellence in Piano
in 1991, and was selected and listed on "Who's Who Among America's Teachers" in 1996, 2002, 2005, and 2007. Furthermore, Dr. Yang has been invited to give presentations in many prestigious conferences and conventions in the U.S., including National Conference of Piano Pedagogy, National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy, World Piano Pedagogy Conference, National Group Piano and Piano Pedagogy Forum, and Music Teachers National Association. Most recently, Dr. Yang was awarded the 2008 Music Teachers National Association “Benjamin Whitten Collegiate Chapter Advisor of the Year” at the MTNA National Conference in Denver, Colorado in April, 2008.