Shuang Yu is a harpsichordist, fortepianist, and theorist specializing in historically informed performance of Baroque and early Classical repertoire. Previously active in China as pianist and educator Yu Shuang (余爽), her current artistic work centers on historically informed performance and early keyboard practice.

 

Her work explores keyboard performance through notation, rhetoric, and expressive practice, with a focus on connecting early music to contemporary and cross-cultural contexts.

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Her approach draws from historical sources, instruments, and improvisatory practice, treating early music as a living and expressive language shaped through articulation, timing, and rhetorical nuance.

 

Yu has appeared as a soloist and continuo player across North America and Asia, performing at venues including the Shanghai Concert Hall and the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts. She has collaborated with period-instrument musicians in chamber and orchestral settings, including the McGill Baroque Orchestra and the Stony Brook Baroque Chamber Ensemble.

She studied harpsichord with Arthur Haas and Hank Knox, and received additional mentorship in fortepiano from Malcolm Bilson and Audrey Axinn. She is currently pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree at Stony Brook University Department of Music.

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Yu is actively engaged in the development of early music initiatives across international contexts. She is currently developing the International Early Music Forum in Shanghai, creating platforms that connect students, artists, and scholars, and expanding the reach and relevance of early music in today’s global cultural landscape.