"imaginative … work"

American musician Channing Yu is a complete artist whose work spans conducting, piano, violin, and voice—not as separate careers, but as integrated dimensions of a singular musical vision. As Music Director of the Mercury Orchestra in Cambridge, Massachusetts and  a national winner of the 2010 American Prize in Orchestral Conducting, he has built a career that refuses to privilege one discipline over another and has been described by the Boston Musical Intelligencer as a “musical polymath.“ He brings forth music and drama from singer-actors on stage and instrumentalists in the pit as an opera conductor. He directs the orchestra from the piano, performing double duty as both conductor and soloist. He's been concertmaster and principal violinist in numerous orchestras. He's sung in a Grammy-winning symphonic chorus. He's appeared as piano soloist with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. This 360° perspective makes him a rare collaborator: someone who understands music from every angle because he's lived it from every chair.