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Gan Xiong

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Member Bio Chinese-born conductor Gan Xiong has led orchestras including the Case Western Reserve University Orchestra (Cleveland, OH), Tokyo Sinfonia, UCLA Symphony, Miami Music Festival Orchestra, and Bacâu Philharmonic Orchestra (Romania), and has conducted student productions of musicals including “The Mystery of Edwin Drood” and “Dear Evan Hansen.” He has led youth orchestras in Shanghai including the Huangpu District Youth Orchestra and Shanghai Kite Youth Orchestra, where he served as faculty in a Baroque summer camp session and conducted its final concert in 2019. Also a vocalist, Gan was a member of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus from 2021 to 2022, where he participated in a recording of Shostakovich Symphony No. 3 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in vocal performance from Case Western Reserve University and a Master’s Degree in orchestral conducting from The Boston Conservatory at Berklee. His teachers have included Kathleen Horvath, Bruce Hangen, Charles Gambetta, and Ovidiu Balan; he has participated in masterclasses with Mark Gibson, Arthur Fagen, Apo Hsu, Robert Ryker, and John Farrer. He currently pursues a DMA degree in orchestral conducting at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, studying with Neal Stulberg.
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Mr. John Yaffé

Ipsilon Music Press / Services
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Barbara Yahr

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Member Bio Now in her seventeenth season with the GVO, Music Director Barbara Yahr continues to lead the orchestra to new levels of distinction. With blockbuster programming and internationally renowned guest artists, the GVO under Barbara’s baton has grown into an innovative, collaborative institution offering a full season of classical music to our local community. A native of New York, Ms.Yahr’s career has spanned from the United States to Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Her previous posts include Principal Guest Conductor of the Munich Radio Orchestra, Resident Staff Conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony under Maestro Lorin Maazel and conductor of the Pittsburgh Youth Orchestra. She has appeared as a guest conductor with such orchestras as the Bayerische Rundfunk, Dusseldorf Symphoniker, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, Frankfurt Radio, Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, Janacek Philharmonic, New Japan Philharmonic, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Singapore Symphony, and the National Symphony in Washington D.C. She has also conducted orchestras in Anchorage, Calgary, Chattanooga, Columbus, Detroit, Flint, Louisiana, New Mexico, Lubbock, and Richmond, as well as the Ohio Chamber Orchestra, St. Paul Chamber, Rochester Philharmonic, Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, New World Symphony, and the Chautauqua Festival Symphony Orchestra. She has also appeared in Israel conducting in both Jerusalem and Elat. As an opera conductor, she has led new productions in Frankfurt, Giessen, Tulsa, Cincinnati, Minnesota and at The Mannes School of Music in NYC. She has coached the actors on the set of the Amazon Series, Mozart in the Jungle, and last season conducted the Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra and musicians from the Pittsburgh Symphony. Portrait of conductor Barbara Yahr Ms. Yahr is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Middlebury College where she studied piano and philosophy. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Conducting from the Curtis Institute of Music where she studied with Max Rudolf and an MM in Music Theory from the Manhattan School of Music. She was a student of Charles Bruck at the Pierre Monteux School in Hancock, Maine. Ms. Yahr’s commitment to finding new ways to reach a broader population with music ultimately led her into the field of music therapy. She is a Board Certified Music Therapist, with an MA in Music Therapy from NYU and post-graduate certification from the world-renowned Nordoff-Robbins Center for Music Therapy in New York City. Her pioneering, community music therapy project, Together in Music, brings orchestral music to the special needs community with uniquely interactive programs.
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Terrance Yan

Stanford Medicine Orchestra
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Member Bio Terrance Yan is the Music Director and Conductor of the Stanford Medicine Orchestra and the Infinite Philharmonic, an ensemble he founded with his colleagues at Apple. With over two decades of musical leadership in the San Francisco Bay Area, he is dedicated to fostering an inclusive, welcoming, and diverse environment for community-centered music-making. //////////// Terrance’s work spans a wide range of impactful and collaborative projects, including Violins of Hope with luthier Avshi Weinstein, Immunity at Stanford with cellist Joshua Roman, and the annual Stanford Anatomical Gift Program Memorial Service. These performances reflect his commitment to creating meaningful musical experiences that resonate deeply with audiences. //////////// Terrance is a member of the International Conductors Guild and has served as a conducting fellow at numerous music festivals, studying under renowned conductors such as Kenneth Kiesler, Donald Portnoy, and Markand Thakar. He holds a Master of Music degree from San Francisco State University, as well as an MBA from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and an MS in Information Systems from Boston University.
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Ken Yanagisawa

Boston Civic Symphony
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Member Bio Recently appointed as the Assistant Conductor of the Boston Civic Symphony, Japanese-American conductor Ken Yanagisawa is an active performer based in Boston, Massachusetts. A recipient of the Yale University Joseph Lentilhon Selden Memorial Award and the Stanton Wheeler Award, Ken was selected as one of three Fellows to attend the Pacific Music Festival Conducting Academy in 2017 where he studied with Jun Märkl, and made his European debut with the Bacau Philharmonic Orchestra in September 2018. Ken recently completed a research residency at the Kyoto City University of Arts, holds a Master of Music and Professional Studies Certificate in Orchestral Conducting from the Manhattan School of Music, and is currently pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree at Boston University under the guidance of James Burton. While a student at MSM, he was selected to participate in the Manhattan School of Music / Leonard Slatkin Conductors Project and was subsequently invited to work with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra as a Conducting Fellow in March 2020. He also holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music from Yale University, and prior to Yale he attended the New England Conservatory as an Undergraduate Diploma candidate for Oboe Performance under the tutelage of John Ferrillo. In addition to music performance, Ken has experience working as an artistic administrator for the New York Philharmonic and as a freelance photographer. His work has been published in TIME, The New York Times, Huffington Post, Boston Globe, Playbill, the Chronicle of Higher Education, YES! Weekly and the Yale Daily News.
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Lauren Yeomans

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Esther Yoo

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Member Bio Praised for her profound depth of expression, freshness of interpretation, and dazzling technique, Esther Yoo is unquestionably one of the world’s leading violinists. Her artistry has been recognized worldwide, with The Strad hailing her as “the model of a violin soloist in the modern age”. Uniquely tri-cultural among classical soloists, she was born in the United States, educated in Belgium, Germany and the U.K., and proudly embraces her Korean heritage. This international background informs the versatility and breadth of expression that defines her as one of the most articulate and gifted communicators. Highlights of the 2025/26 season includes the release of her new Deutsche Grammophon album Love Symposium, featuring Bernstein’s Serenade, recorded with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Long Yu. She returns to perform with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra, and debuts with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León, Presidential Symphony Orchestra and Evergreen Symphony Orchestra among others. Esther returns to the Z+ International Chamber Music Festival and makes her long awaited recital debut at Seoul Arts Center with pianist JaeHong Park. In September 2025, Esther joined the faculty at the Royal College of Music (RCM) as a Professor of Violin, a role that she will have while simultaneously maintaining her performing career. Recent seasons saw Esther debut with Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Calgary Philharmonic, Shanghai Symphony, Orquesta Filarmonica de Málaga, and China Philharmonic Orchestras. She toured with the Munich Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic and Korean Chamber Orchestras and returned to iconic venues such as Wigmore Hall and Concertgebouw Amsterdam. She joined the Seattle Symphony and Hong Kong Philharmonic for the American and Asian premieres of Raymond Yiu’s Violin Concerto, a piece written for her, co-commissioned by both orchestras and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, with whom she gave the world premiere in March 2024. Esther works with the world’s most prominent orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philharmonia Orchestra, Toronto Symphony, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Orchestre National de Lille, Orquesta Sinfónica RTVE, Melbourne Symphony, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, KBS Symphony Orchestra, as well as at venues and festivals such as Lincoln Center, Royal Albert Hall, Seoul Arts Center, Aspen Music Festival, La Folle Journée, Prague Spring Festival and the BBC Proms.
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Arthur You

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Mr. Channing Yu

Mercury Orchestra
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Member Bio American orchestra and opera conductor Channing Yu is Music Director of the Mercury Orchestra in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Associate Artistic Director of the Refugee Orchestra Project in New York City. He is the national winner of the 2010 American Prize in Orchestral Conducting in the community orchestra division. He recently served as Music Director of the Dudley Orchestra in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Music Diretor of Bay Colony Brass in Watertown, Massachusetts; Leader of the Powers Community String Orchestra in Belmont, Massachusetts; and Conductor of the Massachusetts Youth Symphony Project Preparatory String Orchestra in Belmont, Massachusetts. He has also served as Artistic Director and Conductor of the Lowell House Opera, the oldest opera company in New England, where he conducted over thirty fully staged performances with orchestra, including Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier, Puccini’s Turandot, Verdi’s Otello, and Puccini’s Tosca. For his musical direction of Tosca, he was awarded second prize in the 2011 American Prize in Opera Conducting national competition. He served as guest conductor at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, in its production of Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s baroque opera Les arts florissants. He was guest conductor of Atrium Winds in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. He was also invited to guest conduct the Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. Of the Lowell House Opera’s performance of Otello, The Harvard Crimson wrote, “The production’s hero was the orchestra, under the keen direction of Channing Yu. Yu was able to channel all the energy of the 80-member ensemble into moments that spanned the entire emotional spectrum—from sheer joy to complete misery. The sound produced by the orchestra was stylish, heartfelt, and on the whole, refined.” The Boston Musical Intelligencer noted, “The real star of the performance was the orchestra, led with great skill by Channing Yu.” He began formal study of conducting at Harvard University with James Yannatos; there he served as assistant conductor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra and conductor of the Toscanini Chamber Orchestra. Since then, he has worked with a number of conductor teachers in the master class setting, including Kenneth Kiesler, Roberto Paternostro, Diane Wittry, Charles Peltz, and Frank Battisti. He was invited as one of fourteen conductors worldwide to work with conductors Neeme Järvi, Leonid Grin, and Paavo Järvi in master classes at the Leigo Lakes Music Days Festival in Estonia. He worked with George Pehlivanian conducting L’Ensemble Orchestral de València in Spain, with Johannes Schlaefli conducting the Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra in Bulgaria, and with Sandro Gorli conducting the Divertimento Ensemble in Italy. Channing Yu grew up in Pennsylvania.
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Dr. Alexandra Zacharella

University of Arkansas-Fort Smith
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Member Bio Dr. Alexandra Zacharella is director of bands and associate professor of low brass at the University of Arkansas - Fort Smith. Dr. Zacharella is an active wind ensemble/low brass clinician and has presented clinics and masterclasses in the United States and abroad. In 2022 Dr. Zacharella was awarded the Excellence to the University, to the Profession, and to the Community Faculty Service Award at UAFS. In 2018 they were also awarded the Excellence in Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities Award at UAFS. Dr. Zacharella has presented at the 65th and 70th Annual Midwest Clinic and has presented over 75 peer-reviewed presentations, papers, performances/recitals, lecture recitals, and poster sessions on topics including conducting and wind band repertoire, trombone, euphonium and tuba performance, women in music, brass pedagogy, historical brass, music of Central and South America, and music education at the International Conference of College Music Society, National and Regional CMS Conferences throughout the United States, the International Conductor’s Guild, the College Band Directors National Association Conference, International Trombone Festivals, International Women’s Brass Conferences, National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors Conferences, International Alliance for Women in Music Conference, Music by Women Festivals, CBDNA Southwestern Regional Conferences, South Central Regional Tuba Euphonium Conference, SliderAsia, Women Composers Festival of Hartford and several state Music Educator’s Conferences and Arkansas Bandmasters. Under Dr. Zacharella’s direction, the UAFS Wind Ensemble has performed at two South Central College Music Society Conferences. Dr. Zacharella believes in new music and has been involved in several commissioning projects through UAFS, CBDNA, Arkansas Chapter of CBDNA, UAFS Low Brass Society, and most recently four commissioned works for trombone ensemble premiered by the Bordertown Bones at the 2023 International Trombone Festival. Dr. Zacharella holds a Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Southern California in trombone performance with minors in orchestral and wind conducting, music education, and jazz studies; a Master of Music in trombone performance from The University of Michigan; and a Bachelor of Music in trombone performance and music education from the University of Hartford, The Hartt School. They have served as past-president of the Arkansas Chapter of CBDNA and currently serve as the president-elect for the South-Central Chapter of CMS, on the board of the International Alliance for Women in Music as treasurer, artistic director and conductor of the collegiate community-based trombone ensemble Bordertown Bones, and artistic director and conductor for the UAFS Summer Music Camp Programs. Dr. Zacharella is a Bach Artist and Warburton Signature Artist and maintains an active performance schedule on trombone and euphonium.
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