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Please join Mr. Yeo in the Celebrity Chat Room Wednesday, October 19, 2005 at 7pm Eastern Time
Douglas Yeo was born in Monterey, California, and grew up in Valley Stream, New York (where he began playing the trombone at the age of nine). Before joining the Boston Symphony Orchestra/Boston Pops Orchestra in May 1985, he was a member of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra from 1981-1985 and he was on the faculties of the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore and the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. He holds a bachelor of music degree with honor from Wheaton College in Illinois and a master of arts degree from New York University. In addition to playing the bass trombone, he plays bass trumpet, contrabass trombone, serpent and ophicleide when called for in the orchestra. In 1998, he was named Music Director of The New England Brass Band which has released three compact disc recordings under his direction, Christmas Joy!, (1999) Honour and Glory (2001) and, in 2004, the band's third recording, The Light of the World. In 2004, the New England Brass Band, under Mr. Yeo's direction, won first place in the Challenge Section at the North American Brass Band Association National Championship held in Charleston, West Virginia. Since coming to Boston, Mr. Yeo has been involved extensively in teaching, serving on the faculty of New England Conservatory of Music. He has four times been on the faculty of the annual Hamamatsu (Japan) International Wind Academy and Seminar (most recently in 2004) and has also conducted masterclasses at the Masterworks Festival sponsored by The Christian Performing Artists' Fellowship. Other recent residencies have included his participation in the 2003 University of Dayton (Ohio)/Carillon Brass Festival and as the first "Visiting Artist" in residence at Lexington (Massachusetts) Christian Academy (2003). He has been a soloist with the Boston and Baltimore Symphony Orchestras; on both occasions becoming the first bass trombonist to perform as soloist with either orchestra. Mr. Yeo has become a leading exponent of historical brasses, having played as soloist, in chamber ensembles and in orchestras on serpent, ophicleide and bass sackbut. Douglas Yeo holds the Boston Symphony Orchestra's John Moors Cabot Bass Trombone Chair which has been funded in perpetuity through the generosity of the Cabot Family Charitable Trust. A prolific writer, Mr. Yeo has written more than thirty articles on the trombone and orchestral playing for the International Musician, The Instrumentalist, The Brass Herald, Christianity Today, the Historic Brass Society Journal, the International Trombone Association Journal, the T.U.B.A. Journal, the International Trumpet Guild Journal, The Horn Call, the Newsletter of the Christian Instrumentalist and Directors Association (CIDA), The Real Issue, Transpositions and the Boston Symphony program book. His interest in the history of the BSO has led him to do extensive research in the Boston Symphony archives, resulting in the publication of four photo/historical articles on BSO brass players from 1881 to the present; he mounted an exhibit at Symphony Hall on the history and hobbies of members of the Boston Symphony from 1881 to the present during the 1993-94 season. In 2000, he wrote a trombone teaching curriculum for the University of Reading's (United Kingdom) Music Teaching in Private Practice Initiative of their Department of Arts and Humanities in Education. He is the co-author, along with Edward Kleinhammer, of Mastering the Trombone published by EMKO Publications. His arrangements of music for trombone and piano, trombone ensemble and brass ensemble, and trombone duet are published by International Music, Southern Music, and G. Schirmer. An international YAMAHA Performing Artist, Douglas Yeo has collaborated with YAMAHA to produce the bass trombone (YAMAHA YBL-622) and mouthpiece (YAMAHA Douglas Yeo Signature Series Bass Trombone Mouthpiece) that he currently plays.