NEWS
Press releases, articles, reviews, etc.
Philharmonic conduct Innovation series at Clyde
October 22, 2025: The Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra are bringing their three-concert Sound of Innovation series to The Clyde Theatre for the first time.
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News: Fort Wayne Philharmonic
Frost School Graduate Conductors Showcase Orchestral Masterworks at UM Gusman Concert Hall
November 12, 2025: The Frost School of Music at the University of Miami presents an evening of orchestral brilliance as its graduate conductors take the stage to lead a program of masterworks in orchestral literature.
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News: MiamiLiving
No slowing down for Gerard Schwarz, South Florida’s busiest conductor
November 11, 2025: Yun Cao has been one of the most visible of Schwarz’s students. He has conducted the two most recent productions of the Frost Opera Theater—Kurt Weil’s Street Scene in 2024 and Jonathan Dove’s Flight in 2025—and will lead Mozart’s Cosí fan tutte in February.
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Frost Opera Theater soars with Dove’s heartening “Flight”
February 28, 2025: Dove’s busy, agitated and complex orchestration is challenging and Yuan Xuan Cao (who conducted last season’s excellent production of Kurt Weill’s Street Scene) led the Frost students in a brilliantly articulated, colorful reading that brought out the best in Dove’s scoring.​
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Learning to lead an orchestra – and lead the way.
October 31, 2024: An insight into the Frost Graduate Orchestral Conducting Program
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News: FrostNews
Frost Opera Theater presents lively interpretation of opera, “Street Scene”
March 24, 2024:
Accompanying the opera was the Frost Symphony Orchestra, directed by first-year doctorate student Yun Xuan Cao. Cao admits this was his first time collaborating with the Frost Opera Theater, which gave him the opportunity to work with more musicians.
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The Frost Symphony Orchestra complimented the cast members’ voices beautifully by matching the intense visuals. The result was an immersive, urban soundscape.
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News: The Miami Hurricane
Frost Opera Theater serves up a memorable “Street Scene”
March 1, 2024: ​Conductor Yun Xuan Cao drew smooth and burnished playing from the Frost Symphony Orchestra and brought out the synthesis of operatic and populist elements in Weill’s score.
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Kent Blossom Music Festival Fox 8
July 7, 2023: Yun Cao and Ricardo Sepulveda, Director of Kent Blossom Music Festival talk about about the Kent Blossom Music Festival on New Day Cleveland
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News: Fox 8 New Day Cleveland
Kent Blossom Music Festival WKYC 3
July 7, 2023: Yun Cao and Ricardo Sepulveda, Director of Kent Blossom Music Festival speaks with Hollie Strando about the Kent Blossom Music Festival
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Capturing Lessons Learned with Frost Symphony Orchestra Music Director Gerard Schwarz
April 6, 2023: Frost School of Music, University of Miami
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News Article: Capturing Lessons Learned
88 Keys to Success
April 1, 2017: FGCU Eagle News features pianist Yun Cao in an exclusive profile.
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News article: 88 Keys to Success