Yale denies offer to Yundi Li

Yale School of Music has released a statement denying a Chinese social media whisper that it had offered a professorship to the pianist Yundi Li. A link to that effect received 13.1 million clicks.

Yund Li is under official isolation in China after being arrested, allegedly in the company of a female prostitute.

Yale School of Music Dean Robert Blocker has released the following statement: ‘Many people in the Yale School of Music and beyond have asked my office about an assertion being widely circulated in Chinese social media that pianist Yundi Li has been offered a position on YSM’s faculty. No such faculty appointment has been made.’

Every music school in the west should be competing for his signature.