Professor
Voice
Office: 227 Fine Arts
Phone: (731) 881-7408
Email: kyeung@utm.edu

Dr. Amy Yeung, soprano, Professor of Music and the coordinator of the Voice Area, teaches applied voice, diction, aural skills, and directs lyric opera theatre, and is the recipient of the Coffey Outstanding Teacher Award for 2020-2021 at the University of Tennessee at Martin. A native of Hong Kong, Yeung has performed extensively in recitals and concerts on three continents, including Taiwan, Malaysia, Korea, Hong Kong, United States, Germany, Bulgaria, Croatia, and Austria. She is particularly active in recitals of art songs and chamber music. She founded the Trio Sonoritas (flute, soprano, and piano) in 2018. Her debut art song CD with pianist Jung-Won Shin, released by Centaur Records, was supported by the Tennessee Arts Commission’s Individual Artist Fellowship in Music. She won the Harold Heiberg Liedersänger Prize for outstanding interpretation of art songs at the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria.

Yeung has performed in oratorios as a soloist in Mozart's Coronation Mass in C, Handel's Messiah, Haydn's Te Deum, Mendelssohn's Christus, Rutter's Magnificat, and Faure's Requiem. She has also performed in operas: Humperdink's Hansel and Gretel, Cimarosa's Il Matrimonio Sergeto, Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors, Puccini's Turandot, Lehár's The Merry Widow, and Nelson's A Room with a View. Her stage directing credits include Menotti’s The Medium and The Old Maid and The Thief, Mozart’s Bastien and Bastienne, Gilbert and Sullivan’s Trial by Jury, Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi, and Humperdink's Hansel and Gretel.

Yeung holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in voice performance and a Master of Music in music theory from Michigan State University, a Master of Music in voice performance from Texas State University, and a Bachelor of Arts in voice performance from Hong Kong Baptist University. Her mentors have included Meredith Zara, Richard Fracker, Melanie Helton, Leonore Sergi, John Belisle, and Siu-Kwan Chan. Yeung is an active member of the College Music Society, and the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS), and is currently the treasurer and board member of the Tennessee State chapter of NATS. She is also a member of Phi Kappa Phi and the International Alliance for Women in Music. In collaboration with pianist Chan Mi Jean, Yeung has recently embarked on series of art song recitals by female composers from various periods and countries.