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Richard Young

At the age of 13, Richard Young was invited to perform for Queen Elisabeth of Belgium at the Royal Palace in Brussels.

The first violist to receive the Artist Diploma from The Juilliard School, he holds a Bachelors of Music, magna cum laude from The University of.

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Richard Young is the violist of the Vermeer Quartet and professor of viola and chamber music at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb.

Richard Young was the violist of the Vermeer Quartet from – Selected students of l'Ecole d'Archeterie de Mirecourt.

Accomplished violist Richard Yongjae O'Neill is, in many ways, driven by his past, a legacy of both pain and incredible generosity.

Since then he has been soloist with various orchestras and has given solo and chamber music recitals throughout North and South America, Europe, the Far East, Africa, and Australia. A special award winner in the Rockefeller Foundation American Music Competition, he was a member of the New Hungarian Quartet as well as the violinist of the Rogeri Piano Trio.

From 1985 he was the violist of the renowned Vermeer String Quartet.

Mr. Young has performed at many prestigious festivals throughout the world and has recorded over three dozen works for Teldec, Naxos, Orion, Cedille, Vox, Musical Heritage, Angelicum, and Alden Productions.

He has received three Grammy nominations, and was the producer of the Vermeer Quartet’s CD of Haydn’s The Seven Last Words of Christ, which has been broadcast to over 60 millio