Pianist Jared Alan Yoakem has toured as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the U.S. at venues such as Castleton and Washington International Piano Festival. As a collaborative artist, he has performed with artists such as Sujari Britt, entities such as Classical Singers Music Magazine and the Vocal Immersion Program (ViP), and a catalog of choral projects including two national PBS broadcasts at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center in Nashville, TN.
He is a prizewinner of the 40th International Young Artist Piano Competition and the recipient of the Dean’s Advisory Council Award for outstanding achievement in music from Belmont University in 2019. His teachers include Elena Bennett, Mayron Tsong, and Kwan Yi. He holds degrees from Belmont University and East Carolina University. He has participated in masterclasses by Richard Goode, Stanislav Ioudenitch, Julian Martin, Anne-Marie McDermott, Robert McDonald, and Rebecca Penneys.
A passionate music educator, Yoakem has taught as piano teacher and vocal coach with affiliations spanning Belmont University (TN), Cary School of Music (NC), Charlotte Piano Teachers Forum (NC), East Carolina University (NC), and Montgomery Bell Acadamy for Boys (TN). Yoakem currently serves as Class Piano Coordinator at the University of Maryland, where he is working towards the Doctorate of Musical Arts degree.
He is the Artistic Administrator at the Castleton Festival led by Artistic Director Dietlinde Turban Maazel, which has brought world-class performances to rural Virginia from 1997 to the present.