Yelian He (Chinese: 何烨联 | Mandarin: hé yè lián) is an Australian/Chinese classical concert cellist and martial arts teacher.

He was hailed as a "consummate master of the bow" by The Strad magazine on his Wigmore Hall debut,[1] He was the winner of the 2009 Royal Over-Seas League String Competition in London,[2] as well as the Grand Prize and Audience Prize at the 2014 Australian Cello Awards competition in Sydney.

Yelian He was born in Shanghai, China, and emigrated in 1992 with his family to Australia, where he furthered his studies at Scotch College, Melbourne.

He graduated with a B.Mus from University of Melbourne Faculty of VCA and MCM on an Otti Veit Scholarship, and subsequently relocated to Manchester to study with Karine Georgian at the Royal Northern College of Music, where he graduated with a master's degree in Music.

In 2009, He won the string section in the Royal Over-Seas League 57th Annual Music Competition and was the Grand Prize winner in the 2014 Australian Cello Awards, receiving a host of awards in Sydney's Verbrugghen Hall.