About
Ye Huang was born in 1998 in Shenzhen, China. He is a clarinetist, saxophonist, and composer. Ye is an enthusiastic young man who plays music across classical, jazz, pop, and many other genres. He started playing clarinet at the age of 9, studied with his mentor Yi Cheng, Principal Clarinetist of the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra. At age 12, he was admitted by the Juilliard Pre-College with clarinet professor Alan Kay and studied jazz with Ron Blake. He is now attending New England Conservatory for both jazz and clarinet performance majors with Jerry Bergonzi.
Ye started his career as a musician at a very young age. In July 2012, he had his first performance with Australian and Hong Kong professional musicians in the Poly Theater in Shenzhen where he successfully performed Shenzhen-Hong Kong Jazz Night. In December 2013, he had his first classical solo concert in Paul Hall, Juilliard. On January 10, 2015, Ye performed Ye Huang's Suite, a seven movement work he composed at the Juilliard Morse Hall, and he recorded it at the Juilliard School of Music. In the summers of 2013, 2014 and 2015, he organized solo jazz tours. In 2015, he performed with elite American Jazz musicians Bryan Carter, Emmet Cohen, and Alex Claffy. They formed the "New York Youngster Jazz Quartet” and toured of all over China in summer. In May 2016, he was invited by his teacher Eddie Daniels to tour in China as the guest clarinetist.
Ye Huang attended the well-known LaGuardia Performing Arts High School in New York. During his high school years, he joined the school’s orchestra and jazz big band on both clarinet and saxophone. In 2014, he was admitted to the Lincoln Center Youth Orchestra. In 2016, they won first place at the Charles Mingus Big Band Competition.
He often played with different bands and at many places in New York, such as in Dizzy’s Club, Jazz Standard, Blue Notes, Metropolitan Museum and many more. In 2013, he participated in a high school production of the musical "Grease" and gave eight consecutive performances as the lead reed player. He also played clarinet for the recording of the musical “The Winter of April” in New York City in 2014 and gave several performances at Tabula Rasa NYC Theater. He won the Best Solo Artist award twice for the Duke Ellington Regional Competition with his high school Jazz Band in 2015-2016 and won the Music of the Year award in 2015. On June 2016, he graduated from high school and received the "Creative Music" and "A&F William Feinberg Music Award" awards. Ye Huang was one of the directors and performers who organized a Memorial to Martin Luther King concert, and he was interviewed twice by ABC Television in the United States. In 2016, he was selected as the finalist in Backun's International Clarinet Competition in 2017 (classical).
Ye was invited by the famous trumpeter Arturo Sandoval in April 2017 for a 20-day China tour. After that, he continued to perform with the bands in Blue Notes in New York with Arturo. In June 2017, Ye served as guest performer and interpreter for the Jazz at Lincoln Center Eurasia tour. He also shared the stage with trumpeter and educator Wynton Marsalis. In March 2019, he once again toured with Jazz at Lincoln Center & Wynton Marsalis and earned a lot or praises from the band and Marsalis.
In March 30th, 2019, Ye Huang released his first Fusion Jazz Album with his band Nextgen Jazz Quartet, entitled “Starlight”. It has 12 songs and features 4 of Ye’s original compositions. The song “Slavic Blues” was widely praised and featured on many blogs.
In June 2019, he toured China with guitarist Mike Stern, drummer Dave Weckl, and bassist Tom Kennedy. Ye joined the band as their lead saxophonist.
Ye Huang was born for music. His potential is not only to transcend classic, jazz, and other musical styles but to dedicate himself to music and creation.
