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Tzu-Han Ann Chen (she\/ her)<\/b><\/p>\n
Ann Chen<\/b> is visiting co-director of choirs of the Joint Music Program of Claremont McKenna, Harvey Mudd, Pitzer, and Scripps Colleges, where she is co-conductor of the Claremont Treble Singers and Claremont Chamber Choir. Chen is currently A.B.D., completing the Doctorate of Musical Arts in Choral Music at the University of Southern California. She is a pianist, mezzo-soprano, and conductor.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n As a conductor, Chen has been the Artistic Director of Essonance Chamber Choir, which received the runner-up Honourable Barbara A. Hagerman Award at the Performing Arts British Columbia Provincial Festival in 2014. She was the conductor of USC Apollo Chorus and University Chorus. Dedicating her life to ministry, she had been the Choirmaster of St. John\u2019s Shaughnessy Anglican Church and Assistant Conductor at St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Church. She is currently serving as the Music Director of Bay Shore Congregational Church, and the intern Assistant Conductor of Eisner Intergenerational Choir at Heart of LA. Outside of ministry and academia, she serves as the artistic director of a Los Angeles-based vocal octet, Exilio, which predominantly highlights music by underperformed and rising composers for the public through performances and educational initiatives.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Chen was selected as the Spire Chamber Choral Conducting Fellow (24-25), conductor in the Toronto Mendelssohn Choral Conductors\u2019 Symposium, Taipei International Choral Festival, Norfolk Chamber Music Choral Festival, 12th European Academy for Choral Conductors, and competed in the 2nd Romano Gandolfi International Competition for Choral Conductors.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n As a mezzo-soprano, Chen has sung with the L.A. Master Chorale, VOCES8 U.S. Scholars (24-25), VOCES8 Foundation, Golden Bridge Singers, St. James in-the-city Choir, Vancouver Cantata Singers, and Cypress Choral Music studio singers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tzu-Han Ann Chen (she\/ her) Ann Chen is visiting co-director of choirs of the Joint Music Program of Claremont McKenna, Harvey Mudd, Pitzer, and Scripps Colleges, where she is co-conductor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":259,"featured_media":0,"parent":16,"menu_order":65,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-186","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n