Ho-Chung Yeh

Ho-Chung Yeh studied in Taiwan, the USA and Russia, receiving a DMA in conducting. His mentors include the legendary Ilya Musin, as well as Alexander Polishchuk at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, Daniel Barenboim, Neeme Järvi, John Nelson, Larry Rachleff and Harold Farberman. A winner at the First Neeme Järvi Master Course/Conducting Competition in 2000, he shared the podium with Maestro Järvi at the grand finale concert of the David Oistrakh Festival in Estonia. During his professional career, he served as the Principal Guest Conductor of the St. Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic, Music Director of the Symphony of Oak Park and River Forest Chamber Orchestra, West Suburban Youth Orchestra of Chicago, and North Shore Chamber Orchestra Summer Music Festival, Principal Conductor of the Sochi Symphony Orchestra, Associate Conductor of the Symphony of Oak Park and River Forest, was a Board member for the Illinois Council of Orchestras, and on the Music Advisory Board for the Chinese Fine Arts Society in Chicago. Maestro Yeh frequently performe  with orchestras including the St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, State Hermitage Orchestra, Stanislavsky Opera Theater Orchestra, Omsk Philharmonic, Tomsk Philharmonic, Petrozavodsk (Karelia) Philharmonic, Saint Petersburg Radio Symphony Orchestra, Astrakhan Philharmonic, Murmansk Philharmonic, Sochi Chamber Orchestra, Archangel State Chamber Orchestra (Russia), Kharkov Philharmonic (Ukraine), Varna Philharmonic (Bulgaria), Karagranda Symphony Orchestra (Kazahkstan), Evanston Symphony Orchestra, North Shore Chamber Orchestra (USA), Taipei Symphony Orchestra, National Chinese Orchestra, Taipei Chinese Orchestra, Taichung Chinese Orchestra, Taoyuan Chinese Orchestra, as well as Kaohsiung Chinese Orchestra (Taiwan). In 2017 he held a conducting master class with the Symphony Orchestra of St. Petersburg. In 2019 he held the “First Ho Chung Yeh International Concerto Competition for Chinese Instruments”, and will serve  as a jury member for the 2020 Taipei International Conducting Competition.