Principal
Conductor -- Ya-Hui Wang
Ya-Hui Wang has been widely praised for her focused,
intelligent musicianship and her rare gift for
communicating with both the orchestra and the
public. Wang has also earned plaudits for the
flair, maturity, and quiet confidence she displays,
proving herself to be a conductor worthy of respect
in a field traditionally dominated by men. She
currently holds the position of Principal Conductor
of the Evergreen Symphony Orchestra in Taipei,
Taiwan, Music Director of the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory
of Music Orchestra and Associate Professor of
Music at the National University of Singapore.
Ya-Hui Wang received international recognition
by taking top prizes in three prestigious international
conducting competitions: the 1998 Nicolai Malko
Competition in Copenhagen, Denmark; the 1996 Dimitri
Mitropoulos Competition in Athens, Greece; and
the 1994 Tokyo Competition in Japan. Wang has
appeared as a guest conductor with the Danish
National Radio, Arhus, Alborg and Odense Symphony
Orchestras in Denmark, and the Tampere Philharmonic
in Finland. In the United States: Baltimore Symphony
Orchestra, Naples Philharmonic (Florida), Erie
(Pennsylvania) Philharmonic and Lexington (Kentucky)
Philharmonic. And in Asia: Singapore Symphony
Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan
and Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra in Kuala
Lumpur. Wang also made her debut appearance at
the Royal Danish Theater in Copenhagen under the
patronage of Queen Margarathe II of Denmark and
led the Royal Danish Orchestra and Ballet on a
national tour in January 2000. In August of 1999,
she was invited to assist and conduct her first
opera, Strauss' Salome, with the Danish National
Opera. She returned in 2002 to conduct twenty-two
performances of Puccini's Madame Butterfly all
over Denmark, working with all of the nation¡¦s
major orchestras: Copenhagen Philharmonic, Arhus,
Alborg, Odense and Sonderjyllands Symphonies.
Wang¡¦s past appointments include Music Director
of the Akron Symphony Orchestra (Ohio, USA), Assistant
Conductor of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, where
she was also Music Director of the Detroit Symphony¡¦s
Civic Orchestra, Music Director of the Fort Smith
Symphony (Arkansas), the Omaha Nebraska Youth
Orchestras and Principal Conductor of the Chicago
Encore Chamber Orchestra. In the summer of 2000,
she joined the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo,
Japan as their Associate Conductor. Among her
other impressive achievements was her appointment,
in 1995, as Apprentice Conductor of the Chicago
Symphony Orchestra with then Music Director Daniel
Barenboim. Barenboim who personally selected Wang
for this prestigious conductor-mentoring program,
cited her ¡§immensely impressive background and
conducting talents.¡¨
Born in Taiwan, raised in Singapore, Ya-Hui Wang
moved to the United States in 1986 to further
her music education, which was fully funded by
a scholarship from Dr. Yung-Fa Chang, Chairman
of the Evergreen Group. Wang is a graduate of
the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia
and the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, where
her teachers included Otto-Werner Mueller and
Frederik Prausnitz. She holds undergraduate and
graduate degrees in piano performance and conducting.
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