Rate My Professor Chaowen Ting

Chaowen Ting serves as Associate Professor of Music and Director of Orchestral Studies in the School of Music at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she directs the Georgia Tech Symphony Orchestra and Concert Orchestra. A fearless leader on the podium praised for her remarkable and stylish musical direction, she earned her Doctor of Musical Arts in orchestral conducting from the Eastman School of Music in 2014 and her master's degree from the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati. Ting has conducted prestigious ensembles worldwide, including the Lucerne Festival Strings in Switzerland, Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra in Croatia, St. Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic in Russia, Mihail Jora Bacau Philharmonic in Romania, and Orquesta Filarmónica de Honduras. She is a protégé of Bernard Haitink, having studied with him at the Lucerne Festival and observed his work with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

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.