Apo Hsu Apo Hsu

“From the podium she conveys her energy to the orchestra and to the audience!” — The Oregonian (USA)

From 2003 to 2022, Professor Apo Hsu was conductor of the orchestra and professor of conducting in the Department of Music at National Taiwan Normal University. During her 22 years in the United States, she served as Music Director and Conductor of the Women’s Philharmonic in San Francisco, the Springfield Symphony Orchestra in Missouri and the Oregon Mozart Players in Eugene, as Assistant Conductor of the Oregon Symphony in Portland, and taught at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota.

Professor Hsu frequently appears as guest conductor with orchestras in Taiwan and abroad, with performances across North and South America, Europe, Asia and Russia. She has collaborated with a distinguished roster of musicians including Ming-Feng Hsin, Hsing-Chwen Hsin, Gao Hong, Guo Yazhi, Cho-Liang Lin, Nai-Yuan Hu, 章雨亭, Pi-hsien Chen, Hung-Kuan Chen, Pi-Chin Chien, Chun-Chieh Yen, Wu Han, David Finckel, Steven Isserlis, Andre Watts, Gil Shaham, Sarah Chang, Gary Karr, Angela Hewitt, Tony Bennett, Maureen McGovern and Judy Collins.

In recent years she has devoted herself to teaching and to nurturing promising young conductors, several of whom have won major international conducting prizes and hold positions with professional orchestras in Taiwan and abroad. She is currently Resident Conductor of Taipei Chamber Singers, Principal Guest Conductor of the National Chinese Orchestra Taiwan and Principal Conductor of the Sin-Yi Symphony Orchestra (新逸交響樂團); she also conducts the Fu Jen Catholic University Symphony Orchestra and teaches at Fu Jen Catholic University and in the Department and Graduate Institute of Music at National Taiwan Normal University.