Photo by Minim Pictures, 2025

Brisbane-born flautist and 2021 ANAM alumna Lilly Yang is currently completing a Master of Music in Woodwind – Flute at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln in Germany, studying under Robert Winn, Thaddeus Watson and Hanna Heinmaa. Her overseas studies are generously supported by the 2025 Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust Music Scholarship program. Lilly has also performed in masterclasses of renowned flute pedagogues—Jacques Zoon (Adriatic Woodwinds Festival 2023), Robert Winn (Oxford Flute Summer School 2023), and Sophie Cherrier and Julien Beaudiment (Nice International Summer Academy 2022)—supported in part by the 2023 PPCA Performers Trust Grant.

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As an orchestral flautist, Lilly has performed professionally as a guest with the Kölner Kammerorchester, Orchestra Victoria (OV), Melbourne Chamber Orchestra (MCO), Queensland Symphony Orchestra (QSO), and the Canberra Symphony Orchestra (CSO).

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Lilly is passionate about bringing music to the community and actively maintains a number of chamber recital projects. Of note, her work in Brisbane with harpist, Tijana Kozarcic, as the Estrel Duo has seen her perform at the Brisbane Town Hall, Queensland Parliament House, Old Museum Building, the Queensland Harp Society and the Holy Trinity Parish Hall, where they presented a sold-out concert titled Fantasies (2021). Following this success, the duo embarked on a follow-up concert tour series in early 2022 titled Dances for Flute & Harp, with performances at the Maleny Community Centre (Sunshine Coast), St Andrew's Uniting Church (Brisbane), and Trinity Lutheran Church (Gold Coast). Estrel Duo made their Melbourne debut in July 2022 at the Auburn Uniting Church and most recently performed at the Music Room in the Burgh House & Hampstead Museum in London, UK in November 2024. Lilly also collaborates regularly with fellow ANAM alumna Rachel Lau as the Elara Flute Duo. Together they have performed live on Melbourne's 3MBS Fine Music radio (2019), at Auburn Uniting Church (2023), the Ian Hanger Recital Hall, and the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University (QCGU) Theatre (2018). 

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Lilly completed her training at the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) in 2021 under the guidance of Virginia Taylor. ANAM is the only professional performance training institution of its kind in Australia, and one of few in the world. Musicians at ANAM perform in over 180 events in a year and receive more than 60 hours of one-on-one training as well as hundreds of hours of coaching from esteemed national and international guest artists.

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During her time at ANAM, Lilly performed with the Western Australian Symphony Orchestra (WASO) under the baton of Simone Young as well as the Queensland Symphony Orchestra (QSO) in a successful season of the Bolshoi Ballet’s Jewels performances (2019). As part of her professional development program, she performed regularly with ANAM’s orchestral and chamber ensembles at renowned Melbourne venues, including the Melbourne Recital Centre (MRC), Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC), and South Melbourne Town Hall. Lilly has also performed multiple times at the Ian Potter Centre as part of the ANAM@NGV concert series, and has collaborated with world-class guest artists such as Stefan Dohr, Denis Bouriakov, Nick Deutsch, Elim Chan, Simone Young, and Gábor Takács-Nagy. Highlights of Lilly’s time at ANAM include winning Best Performance of an Australian Work for Carl Vine’s Flute Sonata (2019); being awarded First Prize at the 2019 Victorian Flute Guild Leslie Barklamb Scholarship Competition; and participating as a finalist in the 2019 Australian Flute Festival Open Flute Competition, the 2021 Australian Youth Classical Music Competition, and the 2021 James Carson Memorial Prize.

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During her undergraduate studies in the Bachelor of Music Performance at QCGU (2018), Lilly achieved a number of notable accomplishments. These include receiving the Pat Volek Orchestral Training Scholarship, performing Nielsen’s Flute Concerto as a soloist with the Conservatorium String Orchestra, completing an internship with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra (QSO), and appearing multiple times as Principal Flute with the QCGU Symphony Orchestra. She was also selected as a performer for the Michael Cox Flute Symposium in Adelaide in 2018. Following the completion of her degree, Lilly participated in a side-by-side performance of Richard Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos with Australia’s leading chamber ensemble, Ensemble Q.

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Lilly is the founder, photographer and editor at Minim Pictures Photography — a small, independent team offering portrait photography, as well as recital photography and videography services for emerging musicians and chamber ensembles. She is passionate about helping young, emerging musicians who are beginning to build their professional portfolios and want high-quality archival photos and video recordings of their performances, but may not yet have the budget to hire a professional photographer or videographer.

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Outside of playing flute, Lilly enjoys taking photos, playing tennis and trying various tea-flavoured desserts.