Later on, he studied at the Juilliard Pre-College with Julian Martin as a full-scholarship student, and The Phil and Eli Taylor Performance Academy of The Royal Conservatory of Music with James Anagnoson.

[1] Yang is a graduate of Harvard University where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Economics.

His present and past musical advisors have included renowned musical figures such as Gabriela Montero, Eliso Virsaladze, Stephen Hough, Martha Argerich, Dang Thai Son, Mari Kodama and James Anagnoson.

[9] In 2018, Yang was appointed Youth Cultural Ambassador for the City of Guangzhou and accepted a one-year position as an artistic tutor for the Sun Yat-Sen University.

Two years later, he began a three-year tenure as Music Consultant to the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen.