
“Eliana is a gifted cellist, a natural musician, and a person of substance and maturity…..She is one of those unusual musicians who hears down inside the music, and has a dedicated and instinctive approach to the score.”
Marc Johnson, Vermeer String Quartet
New York City based cellist and teacher Eliana Razzino Yang is an avid chamber musician and passionate mentor of all ages.
Philadelphia-born cellist Eliana Razzino Yang has performed solo recitals in London, Paris, Rome, Brussels, Frankfurt, New York, Helsinki, Boston, and Philadelphia and concertos with orchestras in Italy, across the US, and England. She has also performed as part of Harrisburg’s Market Square rising star series and the Taos Chamber Music Group, and has received top prizes in the Adelphi Orchestra, All City Orchestra, YCVT, Caprio, Charleston, and Vivace competitions. Eliana has collaborated with members of the Emerson, Tokyo, Borromeo, Vermeer, Audubon, Aizuri, and Momenta string quartets, Ensemble Epomeo, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE). Recital partners include pianists Ieva Jokubaviciute, Amy Yang, and Clare Hammond. In 2015 she traveled to Budapest, Hungary, to play for composer György Kurtág and cellist Miklós Perényi and in 2016 she played for composer George Crumb. Past programs include IMS Prussia Cove, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Taos School of Music, Kneisel Hall, Perlman Music Program, Sarasota Music Festival, Heifetz Institute, Castleman Quartet Program, Thy Chamber Music Festival, Colorado Music Festival, Meadowmount School of Music, and Carnegie Hall’s New York String Orchestra Seminar. Eliana received her bachelor’s degree from Juilliard in May 2022 under the tutelage of Natasha Brofsky and Richard Aaron, and is continuing for her master’s degree with Zvi Plesser and Clara Kim.