Musical Career
Ya-Hui Wang’s career spans many important centers of the musical world. Past appointments include Assistant Conductor of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Music Director of the Evergreen Symphony (Taiwan), Akron Symphony Orchestra (Ohio), Detroit Symphony’s Civic Orchestra, Fort Smith Symphony (Arkansas), the Omaha Nebraska Youth Orchestras, Principal Conductor of the Chicago Encore Chamber Orchestra and Associate Conductor of the Pacific Music Festival (Japan). 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 personally selected Wang for this prestigious conductor-mentoring program, citing her “immensely impressive background and conducting talents”.
Wang earned 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. A significant figure in the international music scene, Wang has appeared as guest conductor with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, Vietnam Hanoi Philharmonic, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Naples Philharmonic (Florida), Erie (Pennsylvania) Philharmonic and Lexington (Kentucky) Philharmonic, Danish National Radio Symphony, Århus, Ålborg and Odense Symphony Orchestras in Denmark, Tampere Philharmonic in Finland, National, Evergreen and National State Symphony Orchestras in Taiwan. Performance highlights include debut appearance at the Royal Danish Theater in Copenhagen under the patronage of Queen Margarathe II of Denmark leading the Royal Danish Orchestra and Ballet in Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, the Renée Fleming Gala with the Baltimore Opera and twenty-two performances of Puccini's Madame Butterfly with the Danish National Opera. 2010 saw her conducting debut with the Singapore Lyric Opera in Puccini's La Boheme, with award-winning director of the Royal Opera House in London's Covent Garden. Wang’s stirring musical interpretations have been heard around and, literally, above the world: she recently conducted the film music to “Ilha Formosa”, a joint production by the Taiwan Tourism Board and EVA Airways, now playing on all international EVA Air flights.
Ya-Hui Wang has collaborated with many of the world’s great solo artists, and is invited by America’s leading soprano and opera superstar, Renée Fleming to conduct her concerts regularly worldwide.
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