Following his graduation from the Putney School in Vermont, Young continued his studies at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, Bennington College, the Mannes College of Music, and privately with Margarita Fyodorova at the Moscow Conservatory.
Following his graduation from the Putney School in Vermont, Young continued his studies at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music studying music, Russian, and philosophy. He attended Bennington College, the Mannes College of Music where he studied as a student of Bruce Hungerford, and privately with Margarita Fyodorova at the Moscow Conservatory.