Apo Ching-Hsin Hsu

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Apo Hsu, 2007

Apo Ching-Hsin Hsu is a Taiwanese conductor.

Hsu studied piano at the National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) with a bachelor's degree . She continued her training with the double bass player Gary Karr at the Hartt School of Music in Connecticut and obtained a diploma in conducting under the direction of Charles Bruck . She then attended the Pierre Monteaux Domaine School in Maine and studied at the Conductor's Institute in South Carolina with Harold Farberman and at the Aspen Music Festival with Murry Sidlin.

Hsu began her conducting career with the Oregon Symphony and then became conductor and artistic director of the Oregon Mozart Players in Eugene. She was the artistic director and conductor of The Women's Philharmonic in San Francisco and the Springfield Symphony in Missouri, and in 2003 she became the conductor of the National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) orchestra .

In the same year she performed with the Taipei Symphony Orchestra , the following year she worked with the Kaohsiung City Symphony Orchestra in Taiwan and the Sung Nam and Prime Philharmonic Orchestras in Seoul, and in 2005 with the Korean Radio Orchestra. To mark the sixtieth anniversary of the NTNU in 2006, she toured Australia with their orchestra, and in 2007 she performed with the orchestra and the festival choir on the Formosa Dreaming program in California.

As a guest conductor she performed a. a. with the Sydney Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra (2007 and 2009) and opened the International Alliance for Women in Music congress in Beijing in 2008 with the China National Symphony Orchestra . In 2009 she performed with the Cedar Rapids Symphony Orchestra in their masterpieces concert series and conducted the opening concert to celebrate the seventy-five year anniversary of the Springfield Symphony Orchestra . In 2010 she conducted the Lamont Symphony Orchestra at the American premiere of Hsu Tsang-Houei's Deux Mouvements pour orchester a cordes .

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