John Bruce Yeh

Assistant principal clarinetist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, John Bruce Yeh is the orchestra's longest-serving clarinetist in history. Yeh was born in Washington, D.C., in 1957 but grew up mostly in Los Angeles. His parents were both Chinese immigrants; both were scientists but enjoyed music on the side, his father as a singer and his mother as a pianist. Yeh enrolled at the University of California at Los Angeles but continued to play music with various chamber ensembles and as principal clarinetist of the American Youth Symphony. He won the school's Frank Sinatra Musi...