Phillip Ying
Viola
Phillip Ying, as violist of the Ying Quartet, has performed across the United States, Europe and Asia. He is a recipient of the Naumburg Award for Chamber Music, has won a Grammy for a collaborative recording with the Turtle Island String Quartet, and has been nominated three additional times, most recently for a collaborative album with pianist, Billy Childs.…
Linzay Young
Faculty
Fiddle, Louisiana. Linzay is a versatile fiddler, soulful singer and a talented songwriter. A founding member of the notorious Red Stick Ramblers of Louisiana, he is a true link in the chain of Cajun Music and Culture whether he’s wielding a fiddle bow, playing his accordion or cooking in a blackpot.
Alvin Youngblood Hart
Guitar
The cosmic American love child of Howlin’ Wolf and Link Wray… Known as a “musician’s musician,” Alvin Youngblood Hart’s praises have been sung by everyone from Bob Dylan to guitar gods Gary Moore & Mick Taylor. “Alvin Youngblood Hart is as good as you’ll ever hear ” – Bob Dylan 2022 from his book The Philosophy of Modern Song.…
Lidia Yuknavitch
Morning Workshop Faculty
Lidia Yuknavitch is the nationally bestselling author of four novels: Thrust (Riverhead, 2022); The Book of Joan (Harper, 2017); The Small Backs of Children (Harper, 2015), winner of the 2016 Oregon Book Awards Ken Kesey Award for Fiction and the OBA Reader’s Choice Award; and Dora: A Headcase (Hawthorne Books, 2012).…