Sky Yang is an 18-year old composer from Toronto, Ontario. 

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Named one of CBC Music's "30 hot Canadian classical musicians under 30", Sky was a part of the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra Composer Fellowship Program as a 2024-2025 Future Award Winner. He was recently selected to participate in the Toronto Symphony Orchestra’s Explore the Score reading session, as well as the Vancouver Chamber Choir Interplay Workshop.

 

Sky is the Grand Prize Winner of the 2024 International Music Festival and Competition; he has also received 1st prize in the 2023, 2024 and 2025 Youth Musician Commission composition contest of Roy Thomson and Massey Hall, 1st prize in the Western University High School Composition Competition, and 2nd prize in the Society of Composers’ Pre-College Mentorship Program. Sky is a decade-long member of the Toronto Chinese Orchestra where he plays traditional Chinese instruments, such as the erhu and suona. 

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Sky is currently pursuing a B.M. in music composition at the Curtis Institute of Music, studying with Nick DiBerardino, Amy Beth Kirsten, Jonathan Bailey Holland, and Steven Mackey. His mentor includes Roydon Tse.