YAMAHA ARTIST DOUGLAS YEO PERFORMS AT SUPERBOWL PRE-GAME SHOW

GRAND RAPIDS, MI (February 22, 2002)—Playing with the Boston Pops Orchestra has given Yamaha artist and bass trombonist Douglas Yeo many exciting opportunities, including the chance to perform at Patriots, Red Sox and Celtics games. Most recently, the orchestra traveled to New Orleans to play in the Super Bowl XXXVI pre-game show. There they performed America the Beautiful, accompanied by Mariah Carey, and The Star Spangled Banner, with singers Mary J. Blige and Marc Anthony.

Douglas Yeo with his YBL-622 trombone

Prior to joining the Boston Symphony Orchestra in May of 1985, Yeo spent four years with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. His broad based musical background includes two years as a high school band director, a four-year tenure with the Goldman Band, performances with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, the Gerry Mulligan Big Band and orchestras for numerous Broadway shows.

"Yamaha is a company full of people who listen to their artists, and are committed to providing the very best instruments," says Yeo, who has been affiliated with Yamaha for approximately 12 years. "I wouldn't play Yamaha unless I was confident I was playing the instrument which was best for me. You couldn't ask for more in an instrument - or a company."

Yeo has also been involved extensively in education, serving on the faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music. A prolific writer, Yeo has written more than twenty five articles on the trombone and orchestral playing for such publications as International Musician and The Instrumentalist.

In addition to playing the bass trombone, Yeo plays the bass trumpet and serpent as necessary for the orchestra. In March 2002, his newest solo recording, Two Of A Mind, will be released on the Egon label. Doug Yeo collaborated with Yamaha to produce the YBL-622 bass trombone and Douglas Yeo Signature Series Mouthpiece.

For more information, write Yamaha Corporation of America, Band & Orchestral Division, 3445 East Paris Ave. SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49518; call (616) 940-4900; e-mail infostation@yamaha.com; or visit www.yamaha.com/band.