American conductor Channing Yu is Music Director of the Mercury Orchestra, which gave its début performance in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in July 2008, featuring the acclaimed pianist Albert Kim. Mr. Yu is also Artistic Director and Conductor of the Lowell House Opera, the oldest opera company in New England, where he has conducted fully staged performances with orchestra of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin (2003), Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier (2007), Puccini’s Turandot (2008), and Verdi’s Otello (2009).
Recently he served as guest conductor at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, in its 2008 production of Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s baroque opera Les Arts Florissants. He guest conducted the Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra in 2008 and 2009. He was invited as one of fourteen conductors worldwide to work with conductors Neeme Järvi, Leonid Grin, and Paavo Järvi in master classes at the 2009 Leigo Lakes Music Days Festival in Estonia.
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