Janet Yieh
An innovative concert recitalist and sacred music specialist, Janet Yieh has been lauded for her “expressivity and technical prowess” (The American Organist). Janet is Director of Music at Church of the Heavenly Rest on the Upper East Side in New York City, where she oversees a vibrant music program for all ages and plays the 138-rank Austin Organ. She previously served as Associate Organist at Trinity Church Wall Street and director of the St. Paul’s Chapel Choir for seven years.
Janet has performed throughout the United States and across the globe. Highlights include: New York’s Alice Tully Hall and The Metropolitan Museum; Washington’s National Cathedral; San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral; Yale University’s Woolsey Hall; Taipei, Hong Kong, Japan, and Malaysia; collaboration with the Paul Winter Consort, the Washington Chorus at The Kennedy Center, NOVUS NY orchestra at Carnegie Hall; featured performances at the American Guild of Organists’ 2022 National Convention and the Association of Anglican Musicians’ 2022 Conference; the national radio show Pipedreams and WQXR-FM.
In 2020, Janet co-founded a new platform ‘Amplify Female Composers’ with Carolyn Craig; she contributes research to an international sacred music database called “A Great Host of Women Composers.” Janet has played as staff organist for RSCM America choir courses.
Janet earned double Masters degrees in Organ Performance from the Yale School of Music and Institute of Sacred Music, and a Bachelor of Music from The Juilliard School. While at Yale, she was appointed Organ Scholar at Christ Church, New Haven and Trinity Church on the Green, and directed music for Berkeley Divinity School. A Taiwanese-American native of Alexandria, Virginia, Janet is an alumna of St. Stephen’s and St. Agnes School and the Potomac Organ Institute. Janet’s former teachers include Thomas Murray, Paul Jacobs, John Walker, Wayne Earnest, Victoria Shields and Ruei-hwa Shyu. www.janetyieh.com