ABOUT US

Founded in 2025, ELETTARIA is re-examining and enlivening historical instruments with a scope of personal interpretation and cross-genre collaboration. The ensemble's focus on Renaissance and Baroque instrumental music interweaves with their daring exploration of living composers. A passion project at its core, Elettaria comprises Hejun Yang, Robert Wang, and Andrew Levy, three instrumentalists who are all seasoned soloist and ensemble player.

Photography by Madeline Oaklander

HEJUN YANG is a harpsichordist and historical organist dedicated to broadening historically informed performance to new audiences and communities. She is a prized participant of the 2025 American Bach Soloists Academy in San Francisco and has collaborated with Street Symphony, USC Thornton Chamber Opera, and Loyola Marymount University.

Hejun performs as a member and frequent soloist with the USC Thornton Baroque Sinfonia, exploring repertoire from early seventeenth-century Italy to late eighteenth-century Germany. With the ensemble, she appeared in the Berkeley Early Music Festival, the Historical Keyboard Society of North America Conference in Claremont, and The Huntington.

Hejun is currently pursuing her DMA in Early Music (Historical Keyboard Performance) at USC Thornton School of Music under Ian Pritchard. She previously earned her GC in Early Music from USC Thornton under Lucinda Carver and her MM in Piano Performance from Temple University with Joyce Lindorff.

ROBERT WANG aspires to challenge the traditional representation of classical guitar while juxtaposing music of the early and the contemporary. As a classical guitarist and composer, his extensive repertoire features works from the Renaissance to the 21st century, often appearing in adventurous and multi-sensory pairings.

Robert is versed in playing basso continuo and solo on theorbo, lute, and baroque guitar. He is primarily devoted to ensemble playing and has performed with ASU Music Theatre and Opera (L'Orfeo), Bach Collegium San Diego, Colburn Baroque Ensemble, Early Music Vancouver (Vespers of 1610), Ensemble Flame (O Mother What Shall I Do), The Golden Bridge, OperaNEO (Ariodante), Shunske Sato, Sibelius Academy Baroque Orchestra (King Arthur), Tesserae Baroque, USC Thornton Baroque Sinfonia, and the USC Thornton Opera (Actéon).

Robert earned his MM and BM in Classical Guitar Performance at the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music, receiving the 2025 Outstanding Graduate Award in the Master of Music category. He studies classical guitar with William Kanengiser, Scott Tennant, and Pepe Romero, historical plucked instruments with Jason Yoshida, composition with Veronika Krausas, harpsichord with Ian Pritchard, and conducting with Jacob Sustaita. He has performed in Bridges Hall of Music, the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, The Getty, Jordan Hall, and Phillip T. Young Recital Hall, and has been featured on CBS Sunday Morning.

ANDREW LEVY has performed in the United States, the Netherlands, and Germany with groups including Voices of Music, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, San Francisco Opera, the Royal Wind Music, American Bach Soloists, Marin Baroque, MUSA, and Ensemble Mirabile.

He has served as a co-director of the East Bay Junior Recorder Society and taught at the SFEMS Recorder Workshop, Music Discovery Workshop, and Marin Headlands Workshop. He holds degrees from the University of California at Berkeley and the Royal Conservatory of the Hague.

Andrew enjoys practicing karate and reading.