Seiji Ozawa
Born in Guangzhou and brought up in Hong Kong, Yip graduated from the Royal College of Music in London and Indiana University at Bloomington, USA, where she obtained her master's degree in violin performance and conducting. As the winner of the Koussevitsky Scholarship and the Seiji Ozawa Fellowship Award, Yip also attended the conducting seminar and fellowship programmes at the Tanglewood Music Center. Her mentors included great maestros such as Norman Del Mar, Leonard Bernstein, Seiji Ozawa, Gustav Meier and David Atherton.