{"id":189266,"date":"2026-04-08T06:47:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T06:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/189266\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T06:47:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T06:47:17","slug":"mei-ann-chen-named-director-of-orchestral-activities-at-manhattan-school-of-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/189266\/","title":{"rendered":"Mei-Ann Chen Named Director of Orchestral Activities at Manhattan School of Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conductor Mei-Ann Chen has been appointed Director of Orchestral Activities and Chair of the Conducting Program at the <a href=\"https:\/\/operawire.com\/?s=manhattan+school+of+music\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manhattan School of Music<\/a>, effective July 1, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>In her new role, Chen, who takes over George Manahan, will provide artistic and strategic leadership for the MSM orchestra program, teach and mentor conducting students, and regularly conduct the MSM Symphony Orchestra.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is such an honor to join Manhattan School of Music, a globally renowned conservatory, and its esteemed faculty,\u201d said Chen, per an official press release. \u201cSince the beginning of my professional career, I have been an advocate for tomorrow\u2019s artists and the importance of quality education because I would not be where I am today if it weren\u2019t for the phenomenal mentors who saw the possibilities I couldn\u2019t see for myself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chen has served as Music Director of the Chicago Sinfonietta since 2011 and as Chief Conductor of Recreation \u2013 Grosses Orchester Graz at Styriarte in Austria since 2021. She is also Artistic Advisor of the Springfield Symphony Orchestra and Artistic Partner of Houston\u2019s ROCO and the Northwest Sinfonietta. Her guest conducting credits span more than 160 orchestras across the Americas, Europe, Scandinavia, the United Kingdom, and her native Taiwan, including the San Francisco Symphony, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony, Oslo Philharmonic, Orchestre National de France, and Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, among many others.<\/p>\n<p>Chen has also been a dedicated mentor to young conductors through programs including the Chicago Sinfonietta Freeman Conducting Fellowship and the Taki Alsop Fellowship.<\/p>\n<p>Read Related Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conductor Mei-Ann Chen has been appointed Director of Orchestral Activities and Chair of the Conducting Program at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,48998,75943,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-189266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-manhattan-school-of-music","tag-mei-ann-chen","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}