Bio
Megan Yip is an active cellist, educator, and Fulbright Scholar and engages globally in venues such as Alice Tully Hall, Jordan Hall, Helsinki Music Center, Berwaldhallen Concert Hall, and Hill Auditorium. Recent highlights include performing alongside Queens of the Stone Age in their 2025 Tour, Pacifica Quartet with Korngold Sextet, and violinist James Ehnes in James Howard’s new piece They Have Just Arrived At This New Level. She is a top prizewinner and the Audience Award winner at the 2023 Schadt String Competition.
She is recognized for her solo and ensemble work, featured in The Strad Magazine, including a Grammy-nominated project with Yale Cellos. She is guest artist with Versoi Ensemble, a collective of American and Finnish artists who collaborate in chamber music as agents of cultural diplomacy. Chamber music performances include appearances at Yellow Barn (Vermont), Prussia Cove (England), Musique de Chambre à Giverny (France), and Thy Chamber Music (Denmark). She has performed as Principal Cellist with CityMusic Cleveland Chamber Orchestra, and Orchester der Freiburg Musikhochschule, and frequently plays in Detroit Symphony Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony, and Philadelphia Orchestra. In collaboration with the Duderstadt Video Studio at the University of Michigan, Yip recorded York Bowen’s Cello Sonata and continues to champion undervalued cello works through ongoing recording projects.
A dedicated educator, she previously taught undergraduates at Yale College, as teaching assistant at University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, and as cello faculty for New England Conservatory’s Summer Orchestral Institute. She has been invited to give masterclasses at Yale University, The Juilliard School, San Francisco Conservatory, University of Michigan, Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music and Elly Bašić School of Music in Zagreb, Croatia.
In 2021, Yip won a Fulbright Scholar Award to Freiburg, Germany for a grant studying the 12 Sacher pieces for solo cello. She earned a Doctorate from University of Michigan and holds advanced degrees from Yale School of Music and The Juilliard School. Her former teachers include Jean-Guihen Queyras, Richard Aaron, and Paul Watkins. She was recently appointed Lecturer of Cello at the University of Michigan.
