1. Apo Hsu or Hsu Ching-hsin is a Taiwanese-American conductor.
14 Facts About Apo Hsu
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Apo Hsu has been a mentor for many young conductors on both sides of the world through her work at NTNU and at The Conductor's Institute at Bard College in New York.
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Apo Hsu's performances have been featured in national broadcasts in the United States, Taiwan, and Korea.
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Apo Hsu received her Bachelor of Arts in music from National Taiwan Normal University.
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Apo Hsu earned an MM in double bass performance as well as an Artist Diploma in Conducting with conductor Charles Bruck.
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Apo Hsu attended the Pierre Monteux Domaine School in Maine for Advanced Conductors, The Conductor's Institute in South Carolina with Harold Farberman, and the Aspen Music Festival in Colorado with Murry Sidlin.
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Apo Hsu toured Brazil with the Women's Philharmonic in an Avon Women in Concert initiative highlighting the works of Brazilian poet Vinicius de Moraes.
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Apo Hsu has conducted in Irkutsk, Russia, as a featured conductor.
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Apo Hsu has appeared on Asia-Pacific stages as guest conductor with Korea's Sung Nam Philharmonic Orchestra, Prime Philharmonic Orchestra, and KBS Symphony Orchestra, and in tour performances with the NTNU Symphony in the Australian cities of Brisbane, Sydney and Canberra.
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Apo Hsu appears regularly on concert stages in her native Taiwan, including recent guest appearances with the Kaohsiung City Symphony Orchestra and National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra and special appearances with the Festival Orchestra for the 2003 Summer Presidential Concert and the Presidential Holiday Concerts.
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Apo Hsu has earned acclaim for her flair with both Asian and European musical idioms.
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Apo Hsu is closely associated with the music of Taiwanese composers Wen-Pin Hope Lee and Chao Ching-Wen.
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Apo Hsu has served on the faculty for the American Symphony Orchestra League Conducting Workshops, National Youth Orchestra Festival 2000, the Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute 2002 and 2004, and the 2007 All State Orchestra in New Mexico.
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Apo Hsu has served as a Music Review Panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts for Meet the Composer in New York City.