The founder member of the Attacca Quartet is currently working on a piece for string quintet
US cellist and composer Andrew Yee has been named composer-in-residence at the Moab Music Festival 2026. The 41-year-old, a founder member of the Attacca Quartet, said that they ‘can’t wait to share the piece I am working on for string quintet’ in a post on Instagram.
Born in 1984, Yee studied at the Juilliard School, co-founding the Attacca Quartet in 2003 with fellow student Amy Schroeder. The group has won the Osaka and Coleman international string quartet competitions and has released several albums, one including Yee’s arrangement of Haydn’s Seven Last Words. As a solo cellist, Yee performed John Tavener’s The Protecting Veil and Strauss’s Don Quixote in the 2024–25 season. Yee’s solo project Halfie is a recital series comprising ‘an audio memoir of identity and belonging through music’.
Yee plays on an 1884 Eugenio Degani cello, on loan from the Five Partners Foundation, with a bow by Donald M. Cohen.
Violinist Tessa Lark took over the reins of the Moab Music Festival as artistic director in 2025. Its previous composers-in-residence have included violist Kenji Bunch, Aaron Jay Kernis and Viet Cuong. The 2026 festival, which takes place at sites in and around Moab, UT, will take place from 2–18 September 2026.
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