[8] He later trained at the Juilliard School pre-college program in New York City, where he was a scholarship student of Frank Lévy and Martin Canin (the teaching assistant of the eminent pedagogue Rosina Lhévinne who taught Van Cliburn and John Williams).
[9] He continued his studies with Abbey Simon (who himself was a pupil of Josef Hofmann)[10] at the University of Houston[11][12] in Texas on a music scholarship and Pell grant.
He also holds the prestigious Diplôme from the Académie internationale d'été de Nice in France, where he studied with Michel Béroff and Philippe Entremont.
[24] He also holds course certificates from the SDA Bocconi School of Management, the University of Pennsylvania, as well as Yale University, where his teachers included Akhil Reed Amar,[25][26] Ian Shapiro,[27] Ian Ayres,[28][29] Barry Nalebuff,[30] Robert Shiller,[31] Paul Bloom,[32][33] Andrew Metrick, and former United States Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner.
[34] Yung has appeared as a recitalist, chamber-musician, and soloist with orchestras throughout the United States including performances in Philadelphia, New York City, Seattle, and Houston, as well as abroad in Spain and France.
He is affiliated with Sing For Hope,[38] volunteering with its Healing Arts initiative to bring the gift of music to doctors and patients at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City.
He made headlines when he pled guilty to cyberstalking an admissions interviewer during a personal and artistic crisis after being rejected from Georgetown University Law Center, despite having good grades and strong test scores.