Dr. Barbara Tagg
Dr. Barbara Tagg is a veteran American conductor, educator and adjudicator of choral music. Her leadership service for the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) and the Chorus America, her long tenure as Artistic Director and Founder of the Syracuse Children’s Chorus and with the Syracuse University music education department, and her popular book Before the Singing earn her respect and admiration from generations of music educators and choral conductors.
Recognized for her dedication to American music and new compositions, Dr. Tagg premiered over 75 works for treble choirs and, with the Syracuse Children's Chorus, received the prestigious ASCAP/ Chorus America Award for Adventurous Programming in 2002. Dr. Tagg has presented concerts and workshops in universities and choral organizations across the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia.
Dr. Tagg has been honoured by ACDA, the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, Civic Morning Musicals, Sigma Alpha Iota and other music organizations for her commitment to musical excellence, music education and contribution to the development of American choral tradition. |
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Kirk Trevor
Kirk Trevor was trained at London’s Guildhall School of Music and Drama, graduating in cello performance and conducting. He has guest conducted over forty orchestras in twelve countries, including London Symphony Orchestra and Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra in Bratislava, and he is a recorded conductor with over seventy music recordings. Trevor was music director of the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra and is currently music director of the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra and Missouri Symphony.
Becoming widely recognised as one of the leading conducting teachers in the world, Trevor has been a master teacher for the American Symphony Orchestra League and the Conductor’s Guild. He is the co-founder and Artistic Director of the International Workshop for Conductors (IWC), the world’s largest conducting school which holds training over eighty conductors from twenty countries each summer. |
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Sun Peng
Sun Peng is an Associate Professor of Conducting and Head of Teaching-Research Section for Ensemble and Artistic Direction at the Shenyang Conservatory of Music. He is also the Principal Conductor of the Shenyang Conservatory of Music Northern National Traditional Orchestra as well as the Resident Conductor of the Macao Chinese Orchestra. He was once the Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Chinese Orchestra of the Shanxi Song and Dance Troupe, Guest Assistant Conductor of the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, and visiting professor and guest conductor of a number of provincial orchestras and institutes such as the Jilin Province Symphony Orchestra, Jilin Chinese Orchestra, Heilongjiang Chinese Orchestra, Xi’an Conservatory of Music and Jilin College of the Arts.
Sun was the winner and the recipient of the Best Interpretation of Works of Hong Kong Award in the First Hong Kong International Conducting Competition for Chinese Music in 2011. He also conducted in the Champions in Concert of the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra.
Frequently collaborated with orchestras and renowned musicians from China and overseas, Sun has been conducting in hundreds of concerts. He also participates actively in major art festivals, music festivals, solo concerts and composition concerts, which have repeatedly earned him critical acclaim and positive audience response. |
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Peng Fei
Born in a family of musicians, the young Chinese conductor Peng Fei was enlightened and deeply influenced by her grandfather, Professor Xiong Jihua, who is also a conductor, and learned to play the piano under the tutelage of Professor Dan Zhaoyi. Upon graduation from the Sichuan Conservatory of Music with a double bachelor degree in piano and conducting, she furthered her studies at the conducting faculty of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music under Professor Zhang Guoyong and obtained a master degree in fine arts. During her stay in Shanghai, she also learned under the direction of her uncle, Professor Huang Xiaotong, who is also a conductor, and other renowned contemporary conductors such as Professor Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Professor Jorma Panula and Professor Thomas Sanderling.
Peng Fei is currently the conductor of the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra. Her style of conducting is characterised by a balanced mix of strength and grace, and her music career has expanded to different genres of music in recent years, such as symphony, Chineses music and contemporary music. She was awarded the New Artist Performance Prize of the 31st Shanghai Spring International Music Festival and respectively worked with Shanghai Opera House Orchestra, Qingdao Symphony Orchestra, Shanghai Chinese Orchestra, China Youth National Music Orchestra, Sichuan Symphony Orchestra, Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra, Chinese orchestra of Sichuan Conservatory of Music, Wang Kwong Chinese Orchestra of Hong Kong, China National Traditional Orchestra and Shangdong National Orchestra.
Outside the realm of music, she is pursuing a PhD degree in Philosophy at Tongji University under the tutelage of Professor Wang Guowei who is an art critic. |
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Lin Shih-wei
Lin Shih-wei is a renowned Taiwan conductor and clarinetist. After graduation in Taiwan, Lin moved to Germany to study clarinet performance at the Hochschule für Musik in Detmold, obtained his Master Degree with highest honors, and completed the Konzertexamen, the highest diploma for a solo musician in the country. Lin also served in Brandenburg Youth Symphony Orchestra (Germany) Asian Youth Orchestra and various orchestras in Taiwan as Principal Clarinetist and Concertmaster.
Lin is dedicated to elevating the standard of band music education and promoting exchanges of band music between Taiwan and the rest of Asia. The school bands and orchestras, under his training, had obtained an impressive and unprecedented record of twenty-six first prizes in regional competitions, and a gold and a silver medal at the 2012 Singapore International Band Festival.
As a soloist, Lin has performed in all the major cities of Europe, the U.S. and Asia. He is frequently invited abroad to serve on the juries of international music competitions and has taught master classes in the U.S, Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia.
Lin currently teaches clarinet, chamber music, wind ensemble, and symphonic music in various universities and music schools in Taiwan. He also conducts and leads numerous concert tours and has greatly contributed to the appreciation of band music in Taiwan. |
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Paul Nadler
Distinguished as an exciting and highly respected symphonic and operatic conductor, Maestro Paul Nadler has led the New York City Metropolitan Opera (the MET) in more than 60 performances since his debut in 1989. Featuring stars such as Plácido Domingo and Renée Fleming, his diverse repertoire at the MET encompasses Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Beethoven’s Fidelio, Verdi’s Rigoletto, Puccini’s La Traviata, Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Wagner’s Tannhäuser, Bizet’s Carmen, Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, and Stravinsky’s triple bill Le Sacre du Printemps/ Le Rossignol/ Oedipus Rex, and more recently Strauss' Elektra and Dvořák’s Rusalka. Maestro Nadler’s recent performances with Opéra de Montréal of Puccini’s Turandot and Verdi’s Aida were also very well received.
Early in his career, Maestro Nadler won the Jerusalem Symphony Competition. In 1974 he founded the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, the U.S., where he remained as Music Director and Conductor through 1983, and returned in 2008 to lead a celebration in honor of its 35th season.
Maestro Nadler is co-founder and Music Director of the International Vocal Arts Institute, Conductor Emeritus of the Southwest Florida Symphony Orchestra, the U.S., and Principal Guest Conductor of the Filarmonica de Stat Iasi, Romania. Besides his frequent collaborations with Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, Maestro Nadler also recently conducted the Bucharest Philharmonic and Iasi Philharmonic Orchestras in Romania, and in Montréal Vocal Arts Festival, Canada. |
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