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Conductor Mei-Ann Chen on Performance Today March 21
Conductor Mei-Ann Chen
Speaks with Fred Child of Performance Today
Wednesday, March 21, 2018
during Women's History Month
Honoring women in classical music
Listen to the interview on your local radio station and broadcast time here.
Or, listen to the interview at any time starting tomorrow morning at 8 a.m. Central on the Performance Today website by clicking here.
About Mei-Ann Chen
Innovation, imagination, passion and dynamism are the hallmarks of Taiwanese-American conductor Mei-Ann Chen. Music Director of the MacArthur Award-winning Chicago Sinfonietta since 2011, and Artistic Director & Conductor for the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra Summer Festival since 2016, Ms. Chen is acclaimed for infusing orchestras with energy, enthusiasm, high-level music-making, and galvanizing audiences and communities alike. A sought-after guest conductor, Ms. Chen’s reputation as a compelling communicator has resulted in growing popularity with orchestras globally.
North American guesting credits include appearances with the Symphony Orchestras of Atlanta, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Chicago, Detroit, Fort Worth, Houston, Indianapolis, Oregon, River Oaks Chamber, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Toronto, and Vancouver. Overseas engagements include the symphonies of BBC Scottish, Denmark’s National, Aalborg, Aarhus, and Odense, Sweden’s Gavle, Gothenburg, Helsingborg, Malmo, and Norrkoping, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra at the Concertgebouw, Norwegian Radio and Trondheim, Finland’s Tampere Philharmonic, Austria’s Grosses Orchester Graz, Germany’s Badische Staatskapelle Karlsruhe, Brazil’s Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra, and National Taiwan. Future engagements include debuts with Philharmonic of Denmark’s Copenhagen, Germany’s Wurth, Norway’s Oslo, and symphony orchestras of Netherland’s Residentie, Switzerland’s Basel, Turkey’s Bilkent, and return engagements with Atlanta Symphony Orchestra for its Gala program with Lang Lang, and multiple programs with Austria’s Recreation Grosses Orchester Graz and Sweden’s Malmo Symphony Orchestra. Her honors and awards include being named one of Musical America’s 2015 Top 30 Influencers, a 2012 Helen M. Thompson Award from the League of American Orchestras, First Prize Winner of Copenhagen’s 2005 Malko Competition, and ASCAP awards for innovative programming. Ms. Chen also holds the title of Conductor Laureate of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra.
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