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Douglas Yeo appointed to University of Illinois for 2022-2023

By OTJ News • August 26, 2022
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The University of Illinois School of Music is pleased to announce the appointment of Douglas Yeo as Clinical Associate Professor of Trombone for the 2022-2023 academic year. From 1985-2012, Professor Yeo was bass trombonist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Prior to that, he was a member of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, a free-lance musician in New York City, and a high school band director. A noted pedagogue, Professor Yeo served as Professor of Trombone at Arizona State University from 2012–2016 and has also been on the faculties of New England Conservatory of Music, and the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University. Since 2019, he has been trombone professor at Wheaton College (Illinois).