Douglas Yeo

Born in Monterey, California in 1955, Yeo first learned to play the trombone as a child living in Valley Stream, New York and continued while living in the Oak Ridge section of Jefferson Township, New Jersey, graduating in 1973 from Jefferson Township High School.

From 1998 to 2008, he was Music Director of the New England Brass Band,[2] which released five compact disc recordings under his direction.

In addition to his major positions at New England Conservatory of Music, Arizona State University, Wheaton College, and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, he has eight times been on the faculty of the annual Hamamatsu International Wind Instrument Academy and Festival (Hamamatsu, Japan), and has been guest artist and teacher at the International Trombone and Tuba Festival (Beijing, China), the Dutch Bass Trombone Open (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), and the Nagoya Trombone Festival (Nagoya, Japan).

A prolific writer, Yeo has written more than forty articles on the trombone and orchestral playing for various publications, including International Musician,[19] The Instrumentalist,[20] The Brass Herald,[21] Christianity Today, the Historic Brass Society Journal,[22] the International Trombone Association Journal,[23] and the T.U.B.A.

In 2021, he published two books, Homer Rodeheaver and the Rise of the Gospel Music Industry (University of Illinois Press), co-authored with Kevin Mungons, and An Illustrated Dictionary for the Modern Trombone, Tuba, and Euphonium Player (Rowman & Littlefield).