Mina has taught at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, University of California, San Diego, University of Southern California, and Minerva University, where she founded and led the faculty diversity, equity, and inclusion committee.
A pianist (MM, New England Conservatory) and musicologist (Ph.D., Yale), Mina Yang has written two books – Planet Beethoven: Classical Music at the Turn of the Millennium (Wesleyan University Press, 2014) and California Polyphony: Ethnic Voices, Musical Crossroads (University of Illinois Press, 2007) – and numerous essays situating music within larger sociopolitical trends. Yang has taught at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, University of California, San Diego, University of Southern California, and Minerva University, where she founded and led the faculty diversity, equity, and inclusion committee. As a Senior Academic Programs Manager with Minerva Projects, Yang advises universities around the world (USC Annenberg, ESADE, Universidad de la Libertad, Zayed University, University of Miami, to name a few) to help them implement innovative curricula and effective pedagogical techniques. She has also served as a consultant to Disney Studios, contributed to LA Opera’s newsletter, was a featured author for the Oregon Bach Festival reading club, and continues to give papers at conferences and participate in panels around the world. She has been an adjunct professor of humanities and music history at Colburn since 2022.
Select Bibliography:
In press, “From Merit to Engagement: Moving Music Education to the Next Phase,” in Higher Music Education and Employability in a Neoliberal World, ed. by Rosa Reitsamer and Rainer Prokop (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, in contract).
“The East West Encounter in Daiku,” Beethoven in Context, ed. by Glenn Stanley (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
“‘To Share Music With Children’: The LA Phil and Neoliberal Philanthropy in Inglewood,” in Voices for Change in the Classical Music Profession: New Ideas for Tackling Inequalities and Exclusions, ed. by Anna Bull, Laudan Nooshin and Christina Scharff (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023).
Guest editor, with Gerald Early and Patrick Burke, Special Issue on American Music, Daedalus, Journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences 142, no. 4 (Fall 2013).
“Yellow Skin, White Masks,” Daedalus, Journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences 142, no. 4 (Fall 2013): 24-37.
“Asian Music in America,” Asian Americans: An Encyclopedia of Social, Cultural, Economic, and Political History, ed. by Edward Park and Xiaojian Zhao (Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO Press, 2013).
“Los Angeles: Ethnic and Traditional Musics,” in The New Grove Dictionary of American Music, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013).