Rate My Professor Chaowen Ting

Ting's achievements include winning the 2009 International Conductors’ Workshop and Competition, Second Prize at the 2024 Felix Mendelssohn Conducting Competition, Third Prize at the 2023 Kussewitzky International Conducting Competition, the Bruno Walter Memorial Fellowship, and participation as a Conducting Fellow at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music and alumna of The Dallas Opera Hart Institute for Women Conductors. Her research focuses on orchestral conducting, gender studies in music, and representation of women composers and conductors. Key publications include 'When Repertoire is Curriculum: What We Do Not Teach in Collegiate Orchestras' (2019, Visions of Research in Music Education), 'Women Composer Representation in the College Orchestra Repertoire' (2018, IAWM Journal), 'The Education of Women Conductors: Could an All-Girls Club Be the Answer?' (2016, IAWM Journal), 'Understanding Figaro: Music, Text, and Social Status' (2016, CODA Journal), and co-authored 'Gender Bias in Competitive Music Composition Evaluation' (2023). As founder of Girls Who Conduct, she has mentored hundreds of women conductors, and she hosts The Conductor’s Podcast while advocating for new music through over twenty world premieres and commissions for living composers. Additional roles encompass Music Director of the North America New Chamber Opera Festival, Conductor of the Peabody Youth Orchestra, and various symphony and opera engagements.