Su-Han Yang joined the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra as Assistant Conductor in January 2023 and is now the Associate Conductor. In this capacity, he hosts the ISO’s Words on Music pre-concert discussions, conducts the ISO’s annual Discovery Concerts, and assists Classical Series conductors during rehearsals.
Conductor Bio
Taiwanese conductor Su-Han Yang is currently the Associate Conductor of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and previously served as Associate Conductor of the Taiwan Philharmonic in the 2021–2022 season. He won the First Prize in the 10th International Grzegorz Fitelberg Competition for Conductors in 2017 and received numerous invitations to collaborate with the Silesian Philharmonic, the Polish Baltic Philharmonic, the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Brandenburger Symphoniker, and many others. Since 2016 he conducts regularly the Camerata Taiwan. They went on a concert tour of Germany in 2022, and released the album Beyond Boundaries on major music streaming platforms in 2023.
In 2022 he conducted Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel at the National Taichung Theater. His appearances at music festivals include the Taiwan International Festival of Arts, the Weiwuying International Music Festival, the Classica Nova in Gdynia, the Festival of Polish Music in Kraków, the Taipei International Choral Festival, the Taipei International New Music Festival, and the Asian Composers League’s Conference and Festival.
He was one of the two conductors selected for the Mentoring Program of Peter Eötvös Foundation in 2018. In 2017 he was invited to work with Jun Märkl at the Pacific Music Festival. He was one of the chosen conductors to study with Riccardo Muti on the production of Verdi’s Falstaff at the Italian Opera Academy in 2015. He graduated from the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin, the National Taiwan Normal University, and the Tunghai University, where he studied conducting with Prof. Christian Ehwald, Prof. Hans-Dieter Baum, Prof. Apo Ching-Hsin Hsu, and Prof. Annie Chung.