As a soloist, chamber musician, and band musician, cellist Annie Yeh brings over 20 years of experience to the music world and continues to invite San Francisco Bay Area audiences with her warmth of sound and musical versatility.

After many years of being immersed in the classical music world, i.e. performances at the world renowned Aspen Music Festival with conductors Michael Tilson Thomas (San Francisco Symphony), David Zinman (Baltimore Symphony, Tonhalle Orchestra), Robert Spano (Atlanta Symphony), and Bramwell Tovey (Vancouver Symphony), the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival, the Huntington Chamber Orchestra, the Star Classics recital series, and the International Music Festival of the Northern California Music and Art Culture Center at the San Francisco Conservatory, Annie took the opportunity to explore other styles and forms of music upon moving to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1997.

Annie has collaborated with many artists in the world music, jazz, pop and new music scenes, including the spoken word/jazz group Copus, the band Captain Tonic, jazz guitarists Martin Lane and Tony Orbasido, the George Coates Performance Works, the Landini Dance Company, and Goat Hall Productions, to name a few. Annie has studied jazz with conductor/director of the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, David Baker, jazz pianist Harry Likas, jazz trumpeters Christy Dana and Pat Harbison, and Jamey Aebersold; she also attended both the Stanford Jazz Residency and Jamey Aebersold jazz workshops in past years.

Annie started piano at age 6 and cello at age 12; she studied with Deborah Reeder of the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Philadelphia Trio throughout her teenage years in her original hometown of Phliadelphia. After receiving her Bachelors degree in Asian Studies and pre-med from the University of Pennsylvania while performing in orchestras and chamber ensembles throughout the greater Philadelphia area, Annie later went on to study cello performance with Mark Schroeder (Ohio University) and Alan Harris (Cleveland Institute of Music, Eastman School of Music) and jazz improvisation with Ernest Bastin (Ohio University). Annie holds her Masters degree in Music from Ohio University.

In addition to her musical accomplishments, Annie holds a Masters degree from the School of Information at UC Berkeley. She launched and managed Big Ideas @ Berkeley with Tom Kalil, President Obama's Deputy Director for Science & Technology Policy.