Dr. Victor Yuen, a native of Hong Kong, is a PhD candidate in music theory at the University of Kentucky, with a research focus on schema and topic theory, semiotics in Japanese animated film music, and the music of Carlo Gesualdo. He also holds a DMA in trumpet performance from UK, with an emphasis in historically informed performance practice. Victor has presented at the American Musicological Society, the Historic Brass Society Symposium and the North American Baroque Trumpet Conference. He regularly contributes to the International Trumpet Guild Journal, and the Historic Brass Society Journal. Victor was named one of the  2024 Rising Diverse Graduate Scholars in Diverse: Issues in Higher Education magazine.