Owen Young
Lecturer in Music, Cello
Cellist Owen Young joined the BSO in August 1991. A frequent
collaborator in chamber music concerts and festivals, he has been
featured as concerto soloist with numerous orchestras. Young has
appeared in the Tanglewood, Aspen, Banff, Davos, Sunflower,
Gateway, Brevard, and St. Barth’s music festivals and is a founding
member of the innovative chamber ensemble Innuendo. His
performances have been broadcast on National Public Radio,
WQED in Pittsburgh, WITF in Harrisburg, and WGBH in Boston. He has performed frequently with singer/songwriter James Taylor,
including the nationally televised concert “James Taylor Live at the
Beacon Theatre” in New York City. Young was formerly on the
faculties of Boston Conservatory, New England Conservatory
School of Continuing Education, and Longy School of Music. He is
currently on the faculty of Berklee College of Music and is active in
Project STEP — String Training and Education Program for
students of color. From 1991 to 1996 he was a Harvard-appointed
resident tutor and director of concerts in Dunster House at Harvard
University. His teachers included Elinor Osborn, Michael Grebanier,
Anne Martindale Williams, and Aldo Parisot. Young holds both
bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Yale University. He was a
Tanglewood Music Center Fellow in 1986 and 1987. After winning
an Orchestra Fellowship in 1987, he played with the Atlanta
Symphony Orchestra in 1988 and with the Boston Symphony
Orchestra in 1988-89. He was a member of the New Haven
Symphony Orchestra in 1986-87 and of the Pittsburgh Symphony
Orchestra from 1989 until he joined the BSO in 1991.
