Strings

Hit Director Chooses Yamaha to Demonstrate His Futuristic Vision

Clinics and concert by Jeff Coffin, Stefon Harris, Jeremy Pelt & Christian Howes.

Offers Realistic Tones and Powerful Sound

Limited Edition Quartet Includes Violins, Viola and Cello

Acoustic, Electric and Silent Instruments Included

Talented young artists from across the country were honored recently as Yamaha Corporation of America, Band & Orchestral Division, announced the winners of the 2005 Yamaha Young Performing Artist (YYPA) program.

Yamaha has introduced a family of new and re-designed silent instruments

A string quartet made up entirely of Yamaha Corporation of America Silent string instruments highlighted the company's first-ever exhibit at the annual Chamber Music America conference this January in New York, a visit that signals closer ties in the future between the performers' group and the world's largest manufacturer of musical instruments.

Mikhail Nodelman won first prize in the Eurasia 2004 violin competition with a violin handcrafted by Yamaha luthiers.

The U.S. Dept. of State sent the Chicago Jazz Quartet abroad as cultural ambassadors in August and September. Lorin Cohen took a Yamaha SVB-200 Silent Bass with him on the group's "Jazz Ambassadors Tour" to Southeast Asia.