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Jiannan Cheng

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Gordon Cheung

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Member Bio Gordon Cheung is a Doctoral student in Orchestral Conducting at Boston University under the tutelage of Sarah Ioannides. Shortly after he commenced his studies, he got an invitation to collaborate with the Opera Institute, presenting Nico Muhly’s Dark Sisters at their annual Fringe Festival. At BU, he also serves as the assistant conductor and works closely with the Symphony Orchestra. Cheung received a Master of Music from Bard College Conservatory of Music and a B.A. (First-Class Honors) from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Gordon assisted James Bagwell in the semi-stage production of Gilbert & Sullivan’s Iolanthe at the Fisher Center with The Orchestra Now (TÕN). He was selected for the conducting workshop at Spokane Symphony and Fort Wayne Philharmonic. Cheung also appeared at the Eastern Music Festival in two summers as the Conducting Scholar, where he maintained a close mentorship from Gerard Schwarz.
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Deborah Chiarella Deborah Chiarella University at Buffalo

University at Buffalo
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Ms. Chris Pamela Childs

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Dr. Yuchi Chou

Assistant Conductor at Peninsula Music Festival
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Member Bio Yuchi Chou enjoys an international career as a conductor and pianist, active on both symphonic and operatic stages. Born in Taiwan, Dr. Chou has performed throughout USA, Europe, and Asia. Notable invitations are Ansbacher Fellowship with Vienna Philharmonic at the Salzburg Festival, Aspen Music Festival, Conducting Fellow and Assistant Conductor at Peninsula Music Festival and San Francisco Shenson Fellowship, among many other international engagements. Dr. Chou has performed at Carnegie Hall, Chicago Symphony Hall, San Francisco Davies Symphony Hall, and Cleveland Severance Hall. Notable positions Yuchi Chou held include Music Director of Seattle Young Philharmonic, Mercer Island Baroque Ensemble, Community Women’s Orchestra; Assistant Conductor of Peninsula Music Festival, and Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra; Coaching Conducting of San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra. Yuchi Chou is an alumnus of Northwestern University (Doctor of Music in Orchestral Conducting), San Francisco Conservatory (Master of Music in Orchestral Conducting) and Oberlin Conservatory (Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance). Dr. Chou is currently the President of the Bellevue Federated Music Club, and now has a full piano studio where she loves challenging and nurturing young talented musicians. Yuchi is recently selected as a finalist for Erno Lanyi Competition.
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Mr. David Christie

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Member Bio Each stage in the odyssey of my life took me further south. I grew up in Croydon, a suburb of London. In 1983, I moved to Brussels. Then in 1987, to Switzerland, first Embrach, then Winterthur (1991), Wallisellen (1994), Girenbad (1996) and currently Zürich (2008). Croydon has around 330 000 inhabitants, Girenbad around 290, and Zurich around 410 000. I have been happily married to Jacqueline for the last 25 years. Since the deaths of my father Les in 2001 and mother Vera in 2003, I am the head of this branch of the Christie dynasty that Seán (24) and Áedán (23) will hopefully carry on. Since the end of 2008, we live in Wiedikon, one of the central districts of Zurich, only fifteen minutes by tram from the Central Station and Paradeplatz. I enjoy our house a lot, and now also own the atelier behind the house which is used for rehearsals, seminars and parties and now houses a small grand piano. Music plays an important part in my life. I play the viola (modern and baroque), and piano (mostly accompanying). I have also regularly conducted orchestras, operetta and occasionally choirs, and sung (baritone/tenor 2) in choirs. From 1991 until 1999, I conducted the Orchestergesellschaft Winterthur. Since 2001, I also conducted various choral and other groups under the name musicmakers and between mid 2009 and January 2017, I rejoiced in the title of Sonntagskantor at the Prediger-Kirche in Zürich, which involved rehearsing the hymns with interested members of the congregation once a month. I also sang bass in the Kantorei zu Predigern, which kept me busy with many church services and concerts, both in Zurich and Berne. Since 2017, I now sing in the ensemble vocativ in Zürich.
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Dimitri Chrysostomou

Founder & Director Hapax Orchestra
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Member Bio Born and raised in London with Cypriot roots, Dimitri decided to pursue music as a career in his late teens. He studied music at the University of Birmingham, specialising in Eastern European orchestral music, orchestration and solo performance. ​ Currently, Dimitri wears multiple hats - He is the Founder and Musical Director of Hapax Orchestra, a new ensemble for music students and early career musicians. He also serves as the Executive Producer/Artistic Director of Silent Composition, a project pairing contemporary composers with silent movies for live to picture performances. Additionally, he directs the Beckenham Concert Band and has guest conducted with amateur groups across the south of England. ​ During his time at Birmingham, Dimitri excelled in classical saxophone, studying with Anna Brooks at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and graduating with the highest performance mark of his cohort. He also had the opportunity to conduct the University of Birmingham Wind Band, working with British Composer Philip Sparke to conduct the UK premiere of Sparke's Wind Sketches in 2015. ​ After University, Dimitri continued to hone his conducting skills, learning from mentors like Howard Williams, John Farrer, Mark Heron and Finnish pedagogue Jorma Panula. ​ Beyond Conducting, Dimitri teaches, manages the London Conducting Workshop, and is deputy Manager for New Surrey Performing Arts Library. In a nutshell, Dimitri's life revolves around music, from performing and conducting to educating and managing musical initiatives.
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Mr. Conrad Chu

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Member Bio ​Conductor and pianist Conrad Chu has built a reputation in New York as an artist equally well-versed in opera and orchestral repertoire, with a strong affinity for contemporary styles. A native of Allentown, Pennsylvania, he settled in New York after attending Mannes School of Music for a master’s in orchestral conducting, Currently, Mr. Chu is at the final dissertation stage for a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in contemporary music (conducting track) from Bowling Green State University in northwest Ohio. From 2008 to 2012 he served as doctoral assistant conductor for the school orchestra, Bowling Green Philharmonia, as a student of Emily Freeman Brown. This coming fall, Mr. Chu has been appointed Lecturer in Choral and Orchestral Music at Union College in Schenectady, New York, serving as music director of the Union College Community Orchestra and Union College Chorale. In recent years, Mr. Chu has attracted particular attention for his opera work, appearing with small companies that specialize in contemporary productions. From 2013 to 2015 he was appointed assistant conductor with Gotham Chamber Opera, formerly the nation’s leading company for the chamber opera repertoire. Other companies for which he has music directed or assisted in world premieres include American Opera Projects, Brooklyn Repertory Opera, Opera on Tap, Prototype Festival from Beth Morrison Productions, and The Shakespeare Concerts (Boston). In the last three seasons, Mr. Chu has debuted as guest music director for several fast-rising ensembles. In August 2016, Mr. Chu debuted as guest conductor with Victory Hall Opera in Charlottesville, Virginia, a new company established by former Met and City Opera singers. He conducted a chamber version of Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier, updated to the present day and reduced to the five principals. This past May, Mr. Chu music directed for the contemporary ensemble Rhymes With Opera in a new one-act for their 10th anniversary based on the Grimm fairy tale Rumpelstiltskin. Then in June, he was music director for the Gilbert & Sullivan Light Opera Company of Long Island’s spring production of Patience. In the New York orchestral scene, Mr. Chu has guest conducted a wide range of community and academic ensembles, including the Hunter College Symphony, Queer Urban Orchestra, Gemini Youth Orchestra, Centre Symphony and Queens Symphony. He has been privileged to study in master classes with distinguished maestros like Kurt Masur, Jorma Panula, Gustav Meier, Robert Spano, Leonard Slatkin and Marin Alsop. In 2014 he was one of 12 young conductors from around the nation selected to conduct the Richmond Symphony in a workshop by the Conductors Guild, the national conductors’ association. Mr. Chu also has a long background in choral music, having served ten years as the choral director at Eugene Lang College, the liberal arts division of The New School.
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Hanrich Claassen

Musica Silvestre Orchestra - University of Twente
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Member Bio Hanrich Claassen is a passionate cellist, conductor, and educator who believes that a balance between educating and performing music is the key to true artistic enlightenment. Mr. Claassen obtained his Bachelor of Music in both piano and cello at the University of the Free State in South Africa. He furthered his cello studies at the University of Stellenbosch, where he completed both a Music Honours Degree and his Master's Degree in Chamber Music. Mr. Claassen was awarded the Teacher's Licentiate from the University of South Africa with distinction before furthering his cello studies in Portugal in 2003 at the Escola Superior de Artes Aplicadas. During the course of his studies, Mr. Claassen received numerous awards and merit scholarships in South Africa. He is a previous gold medalist of the Free State Music Society Scholarship Competition, as well as the Free State Orchestra Instrument Competition. In August 2001 he was the overall winner of the Huguenot Music Society Prize Competition in Stellenbosch. Mr. Claassen was a semi-finalist in the 2002 UNISA String competition and in the same year was runner-up during the UNISA Overseas Scholarship Competition. Mr. Claassen was awarded the bronze medal during the 2010 Len van Zyl Conducting Competition in Cape Town after his direction of the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra. More recently, Mr. Claassen was a semi-finalist in the prestigious 5th Edition of the Blue Danube International Opera Conducting Competition 2013 with the Bulgarian State Opera Ruse (Rousse). Mr. Claassen was extensively involved in performing arts while growing up in Windhoek, Namibia and Bloemfontein, South Africa. He performed as cello and piano soloist with the Johannesburg Symphony Orchestra, Performing Arts Council of the Free State Symphony Orchestra and with the KwaZulu Natal Philharmonic Orchestra. He has attended master classes in South Africa, as well as in Austria, Switzerland, Portugal, and Brazil from Anton Nel, Martino Tirimo, Alexander Ivashkin, Borislav Strulev, Antonio Meneses, Radu Adelescu, Heidi Litschauer, Xenia Jankovich and the Jerusalem String Quartet, Victor Yampolsky, amongst others.As a professional cellist, Mr. Claassen has been a member of various philharmonic and chamber orchestras in the USA, South Africa, Portugal, Bahrain, and China. During Mr. Claassen's stay in Shanghai, he was the Assistant Music Director, cellist, and conductor for the Shanghai Baroque Chamber Orchestra. Other notable conducting opportunities have taken Mr. Claassen to the National Theatre of Windhoek, Namibia; the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music Spoleto Festival, Italy and to Varna, Plovdiv and Stara Zagora, Bulgaria as an assistant to Maestro Dian Tchobonov for Varna International's Le Nozze di Figaro. Mr. Claassen has been a guest clinician and conductor at various orchestra festivals for the Association for Music in International Schools (AMIS) and the Asian Pacific Activities Conference (APAC).
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Dr. Antoine Clark

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Member Bio An award-winning conductor known for his engaging presence and advocacy for arts education, Dr. Antoine T. Clark is the founding artistic and music director of the McConnell Arts Center Chamber Orchestra. A supporter of new music and interdisciplinary artistic collaborations, Dr. Clark regularly commissions new works and engages artists from various practices to create dynamic programming that inspires, fosters music education, and establishes relationships between artists and communities. ​ Engagements during the 2018-19 season included conducting the Colour of Music Festival Chamber Orchestra, the Charleston Gospel Choir and Orchestra, and the Charleston Symphony Orchestra. During the summer of 2019, Dr. Clark attended conducting competitions at the New York Conducting Workshop and the Smoky Mountain International Conducting Institute and served as assistant conductor at the Gateways Music Festival in association with the Eastman School of Music. ​ In 2018 and 2019, Dr. Clark was a Finalist for the Respighi Prize in Conducting, and he was a winner in the 2017 International Conductor’s Workshop and Competition. He has served as music director of the Ohio Northern University Wind Orchestra, music director of the Wayne State College Orchestra, assistant conductor of the Ohio State University Orchestra, and as artistic and music director of the Capital City Chamber Players. Committed to inspiring and nurturing the next generation of musicians, Dr. Clark has taught students ranging from young beginners through college music majors. He is currently Philharmonia conductor and music director with the Northern Ohio Youth Orchestra, music director of the Ohio Wesleyan University Chamber Orchestra, music director of the Northern Ohio University Symphony Orchestra and adjunct instructor of woodwinds at Kenyon College. Previously, Dr. Clark served on the faculties of Denison University, Wayne State College and Randolph College. ​ Some of the world’s most noted conductors have mentored Dr. Clark; these include Mei-Ann Chen, Markand Thakar, Michael Jinbo, Mark Gibson, Neil Varon, John Farrer, Toshiyuki Shimada and Marshall Haddock. Dr. Clark earned the Master of Music degree in orchestral conducting and the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in clarinet performance from the Ohio State University. He also holds the Master of Music degree in clarinet performance from the University of Cincinnati-College Conservatory of Music, and the Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education from Virginia Commonwealth University. He participated in the Cabrillo Contemporary Festival of Music, Monteux School and Music Festival and is currently a Project Inclusion Conducting Freeman Fellow with the Chicago Sinfonietta.
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