Yuval Tessman-Bar-On (she/her) is passionate about musicology, performance, and teaching and she often ties these fields together through interdisciplinary work. She is in her second year of a Master of Music degree program in trumpet performance at the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University, where she also works as a research assistant and teaching assistant. She is a brass and musicianship teaching artist at the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s OrchKids. Previously, Yuval did her undergraduate studies at McGill University's Schulich School of Music, where she completed a double major in trumpet performance and music history and graduated in 2022 with Dean’s Honors and an Outstanding Achievement award in music history. While at McGill University, Yuval worked as a tutor for the music theory and music history undergraduate core classes. Yuval regularly enjoys performing in symphony orchestras, chamber ensembles, and contemporary ensembles and has also performed in jazz bands and marching bands. She has performed as a substitute trumpet player in Symphoria (formerly known as Syracuse Symphony Orchestra). Yuval currently studies trumpet with Tony Prisk, and prior to that has studied with Paul Merkelo and John Raschella.
Yuval is passionate about connecting issues of social justice and education to her musical endeavors. She is the founder of the Future in Music Program, a mentorship program that is focused on promoting access to high quality education to brass players who are members of underrepresented groups or may not have such access. The program pairs high school brass players who are marginalized on the basis of gender and wanting to apply to music school with mentors who are students in music programs at universities, colleges, and conservatories. Yuval founded the program in 2021 and currently works as the executive director of the organization, which is in the process of applying for non-profit 501(c)(3) status. As director of the mentorship program, among other things, Yuval creates and implements the program curriculum, which is designed to make the college audition process more accessible.
Yuval also volunteers with the International Women’s Brass Conference (IWBC), working on the social media committee and doing historical research for the brass history archives. She is also a member of the Journal of Undergraduate Music Research editorial board.
In her musicological work, Yuval’s research is primarily focused on themes of social justice in music, both in popular music and in brass and orchestral music. Her recent work focuses on how gender identity intersects with the instrument one chooses, and how this affects women and other gender-marginalized brass players. Yuval has presented this research at the 2022 International Women’s Brass Conference. Her other interests in musicology include music of the Israeli-Arab conflict, music of the Holocaust, and music of war and politics more generally.
Yuval has earned various awards, including the Artistic Excellence award at the Peabody Institute (2022-2024), the Rachael Duncan Memorial Scholarship from the IWBC (2022), and at McGill University, the Grace Evelyn Tuttle Scholarship (2019, 2021) the Wirth Brass Scholarship (2019), the Helmut Blume Scholarship (2020, 2021). Aside from music, Yuval loves to rock climb, read, hike, run, weight-lift, travel, and ride horses.
Yuval is passionate about connecting issues of social justice and education to her musical endeavors. She is the founder of the Future in Music Program, a mentorship program that is focused on promoting access to high quality education to brass players who are members of underrepresented groups or may not have such access. The program pairs high school brass players who are marginalized on the basis of gender and wanting to apply to music school with mentors who are students in music programs at universities, colleges, and conservatories. Yuval founded the program in 2021 and currently works as the executive director of the organization, which is in the process of applying for non-profit 501(c)(3) status. As director of the mentorship program, among other things, Yuval creates and implements the program curriculum, which is designed to make the college audition process more accessible.
Yuval also volunteers with the International Women’s Brass Conference (IWBC), working on the social media committee and doing historical research for the brass history archives. She is also a member of the Journal of Undergraduate Music Research editorial board.
In her musicological work, Yuval’s research is primarily focused on themes of social justice in music, both in popular music and in brass and orchestral music. Her recent work focuses on how gender identity intersects with the instrument one chooses, and how this affects women and other gender-marginalized brass players. Yuval has presented this research at the 2022 International Women’s Brass Conference. Her other interests in musicology include music of the Israeli-Arab conflict, music of the Holocaust, and music of war and politics more generally.
Yuval has earned various awards, including the Artistic Excellence award at the Peabody Institute (2022-2024), the Rachael Duncan Memorial Scholarship from the IWBC (2022), and at McGill University, the Grace Evelyn Tuttle Scholarship (2019, 2021) the Wirth Brass Scholarship (2019), the Helmut Blume Scholarship (2020, 2021). Aside from music, Yuval loves to rock climb, read, hike, run, weight-lift, travel, and ride horses.
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