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Since coming to Boston, Yeo has been extensively involved in teaching. In addition to his position at the New England Conservatory, he has four times been on the faculty of the annual Hamamatsu (Japan) International Wind Academy and Seminar. Other residencies have included his participation in the 2003 University of Dayton (Ohio) Carillon Brass Festival and as the first "Visiting Artist" in residence at Lexington (Massachusetts) Christian Academy (2003).
A prolific writer, Mr. Yeo has written more than thirty articles on the trombone and orchestral playing for various publications, including International Musician, The Instrumentalist, The Brass Herald, Christianity Today, the Historic Brass Society Journal, the International Trombone Association Journal, and the T.U.B.A. Journal.
He has done extensive research in the Boston Symphony archives, resulting in the publication of four photo/historical articles on BSO brass players from 1881 to the present; he mounted an exhibit at Symphony Hall on the history and hobbies of members of the Boston Symphony from 1881 to the present during the 1993-94 season. In 2000, he wrote a trombone teaching curriculum for the University of Reading's (United Kingdom) Music Teaching in Private Practice Initiative of their Department of Arts and Humanities in Education.
He is the co-author, along with Edward Kleinhammer, of Mastering the Trombone. He is also actively involved in the work of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Youth Activities office.
Yeo was the plaintiff in a 1994 court case, Yeo vs. Lexington, that tested important issues in scholastic media law. In 1997 Yeo lost on appeal and carried the case to the US Supreme court which declined to hear it.
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