Jarod Yap

Collaborative pianist Jarod Yap always strives to portray music as a human experience. Based in New York, he is a staff pianist at The Juilliard School, founder of Vision Possible Charity Concerts, and faculty at Lyra Music and BRAVO Chamber Music Workshop during the summers. Recently, he was a 2025 SongStudio Artist at Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, participant in Music for Food, and played in a masterclass for Renee Fleming with soprano Gemma Nha through the Cincinnati Song Initiative. In the fall of 2025, he looks forward to performances at The Armory and with If Music Be The Food. He has performed at distinguished venues such as Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Hall, and St. Patrick’s Cathedral, and important collaborators have included violinists David Chan and Stella Chen, cellists Amy Barston and Horatio Contreras, bassist Kebra-Seyoun Charles, cut paper artist Bovey Lee, and members of the Argus and Prometheus Quartets. Studies were at The Juilliard School, Rice University, Music Academy of the West, Aspen Music Festival, RCM, and UT-Health (MPH) with Dr. Lydia Brown, Jeanne Kierman Fischer, Tom Jaber, Mary Handley, Jonathan Feldman, and Cameron Stowe. Notable masterclasses were with JoAnn Falletta, Augustin Hadelich, Susan Graham, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Angelo Xiang Yu, Roger Vignoles, Julius Drake, Rita Sloan, Kathleen Kelly, Martin Katz, Joseph Conyers, Dominik Wagner, and Edgar Meyer. He is the son of Dr. Johnny and Christina Yap and the older brother of Constance Yap.