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'''Apo Hsu (Apo Ching-Hsin Hsu)''' ({{zh|t=許瀞心}}) is a [[Conducting|conductor]] born in [[Taiwan]] and resident of both Taiwan and the [[United States]]. Hsu served as music director of the [[National Taiwan Normal University]] Symphony Orchestra and the Springfield Symphony Orchestra in [[Springfield, Missouri|Springfield]], [[Missouri]]. Her past appointments include serving as artistic director of [[The Women's Philharmonic]] in [[San Francisco]], [[California]], and conductor of the [[Oregon Mozart Players]] in [[Eugene, Oregon|Eugene]], [[Oregon]]. She 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 State|New York]]. Her performances have been featured in national broadcasts in the United States (on [[National Public Radio]]), Taiwan (on [[International Community Radio Taipei]]), and Korea (on [[Korean Broadcasting System]]). |
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==Concerts== |
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Apo Hsu's international career encompasses a wide array of guest appearances, residencies, and tour performances. In the United States she has appeared as a guest conductor with the [[San Francisco Symphony]], the Barra Mansa Symphony, the [[National Symphony Orchestra (United States)|National Symphony Orchestra]] ([[Washington, D.C.|Washington DC]]), the [[Minnesota Orchestra]], the [[Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra]], the [[Detroit Symphony Orchestra]], the [[Oregon Symphony Orchestra]], the [[Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra]], the [[Hartford Symphony Orchestra]], the [[Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra]], the [[Wheeling Symphony Orchestra]], the [[Interlochen Center for the Arts]] and many others. Hsu toured [[Brazil]] with the Women's Philharmonic in an ''Avon Women in Concert'' initiative highlighting the works of Brazilian poet [[Vinícius de Moraes]]. She has conducted in [[Irkutsk]], [[Russia]], as a featured conductor. She has appeared on [[Asia-Pacific]] stages as guest conductor with [[South Korea|Korea]]'s [[Sung Nam Philharmonic Orchestra]], [[Prime Philharmonic Orchestra]], and [[KBS Symphony Orchestra]] ([[Korean Broadcasting System]]), and in tour performances with the NTNU Symphony in the [[Australia]]n cities of [[Brisbane]], [[Sydney]] and [[Canberra]]. She 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 ([[Chungli]]) and the Presidential Holiday Concerts ([[Tainan City|Tainan]]).<ref name="ntnu">{{cite web|url=http://www.music.ntnu.edu.tw/faculty/hsu2/index.htm#english|title=Apo Hsu bio|publisher=National Taiwan Normal University|accessdate=2007-09-03}}</ref> |
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==Programs and Recordings== |
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Apo Hsu has earned acclaim for her flair with both Asian and European musical idioms. She and The Women’s Philharmonic received four consecutive Awards for Adventurous Programming from the [[American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers]] (ASCAP) and the [[American Symphony Orchestra League]]. With this group Ms Hsu recorded symphonic music by [[African-American]] [[composer]] [[Florence Price]] for the [[Koch International Classics]] label in 2001.<ref name="ntnu"/> Performances with the [[Korean Broadcasting System|KBS]] Symphony Orchestra of Korea were featured on [[National Public Radio|NPR]]'s "Performance Today" in August 2007.<ref name="npr">{{cite web|url=http://performancetoday.publicradio.org/?month=8&day=29&year=2007|title=Performance Today, 2007-08-29|publisher=National Public Radio (USA)|accessdate=2007-09-06| archiveurl= http://web.archive.org/web/20070915023228/http://performancetoday.publicradio.org/?month=8&day=29&year=2007| archivedate= 15 September 2007 <!--DASHBot-->| deadurl= no}}</ref> A recording of the repertoire of her acclaimed 2007 ''Formosa Dreaming'' American tour program with NTNU performing artists, featuring the music of [[Tyzen Hsiao]] and [[Fan-Long Ko]], was released in 2008. She is also closely associated with the music of Taiwanese composers [[Wen-Pin Hope Lee]] and [[Chao Ching-Wen]]. |
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==Teaching== |
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As head of the conducting studio at [[National Taiwan Normal University|NTNU]] Apo Hsu plays a leading role in the training of Taiwan's next generation of conductors. In North America she appears regularly as a faculty member at The Conductor's Institute at [[Bard College]]. She 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]]. She has served as a Music Review Panelist for the [[National Endowment for the Arts]] for [[Meet the Composer]] in [[New York City]].<ref name="ntnu"/> |
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==Education== |
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Apo Hsu received her BA in [[piano]] from the National Taiwan Normal University. Her graduate studies in the US began at the [[Hartt School of Music]] in [[Connecticut]] where she studied [[double bass]] performance with [[Gary Karr]]. She earned an MM in double bass performance as well as an Artist Diploma in Conducting with conductor [[Charles Bruck]]. She attended the Pierre Monteux Domaine School in [[Maine]] for Advanced Conductors, The Conductor’s Institute in [[University of South Carolina|South Carolina]] with [[Harold Farberman]], and the [[Aspen Music Festival]] in [[Colorado]] with Murry Sidlin.<ref name="ntnu"/> |
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==See also== |
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*[[National Taiwan Normal University]] |
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*[[National Theater and Concert Hall (Taiwan)]] |
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*[[The Women's Philharmonic]] |
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*[[Florence Price]], composer |
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*[[Tyzen Hsiao]], composer |
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*[[Fan-Long Ko]], composer |
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*[[Wen-Pin Hope Lee]], composer |
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==References== |
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==External links== |
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*[http://www.music.ntnu.edu.tw/faculty/hsu2/index.htm#english/ Apo Hsu bio at NTNU] |
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*[http://www.music.ntnu.edu.tw/ Music at the National Taiwan Normal University] |
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*[http://www.bard.edu/ The Conductor's Institute at Bard College] |
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*[http://www.symphony.org/ American Symphony Orchestra League] |
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*[http://www.gio.gov.tw/taiwan-website/5-gp/yearbook/19Culture.htm ''Taiwan Yearbook:'' Culture (Government Information Office)] |
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