Eugenia Oi Yan Yau

Eugenia Oi Yan Yau is assistant professor of music at Borough of Manhattan Community College, the City University of New York. At BMCC, she teaches private voice and directs choirs including the BMCC Select Chorus which she founded in the spring of 2005. In addition, she has been directing the Pace University Downtown Chorale since fall of 2005.

Prior to her career in the East coast, Yau was the director of music at Olivet College (Michigan) and also taught at Southwestern College (Kansas). At SC, her experiences in global music and cultures, led to her appointment as director of Global Voices, an ensemble that she conceived and developed in 2002.

Besides her teaching duties, Yau maintains an active schedule of presenting lecture-recitals on Chinese, German and American art songs at institutions including the University of Texas, University of Michigan, National University of Singapore, Hong Kong Baptist University and De La Salle Lipa University in the Philippines. She has also performed as soloist with the Borough of Manhattan Community College Downtown Symphony Orchestra, Interlochen Arts Academy Orchestra, Battle Creek Symphony Orchestra, University of Texas Opera Theatre and Symphony Orchestra and Southwest Texas State University Chorale and Orchestra. This December, she will be featured as an outstanding alumnus and will perform with the Hong Kong Baptist University Chorale, Girls’ Choir and Orchestra at the university music department’s 50th anniversary celebration gala concert in Hong Kong.

Yau received her Bachelor’s Degree in Music at Hong Kong Baptist University, Master’s Degree at Texas State University, and completed a degree of Doctor of Musical Arts in vocal performance at the University of Texas at Austin. Yau also received numerous professional recognitions including the Fellowship Diploma of Singing from Trinity College of Music in London, and the Licentiate Diploma of Singing from Royal Schools of Music at London.