音樂總監暨指揮 Music Director and Conductor
丁偉晃 Andrew W. Ting
Andrew W. Ting has been a global music educator and performer for the past 20 years. Mr. Ting is the Executive Director of WePerform.Org, a non-profit organization with the mission of promoting self-confidence through performance art. He is also the Music Director of The Dragon Singers since 2007.
Mr. Ting began his formal musical training at the age of four with his mother, an accomplished music educator. He received his bachelor’s degrees in Music and Economics from the University of California at Berkeley, and from the University of Minnesota he pursued his Masters in Music with an emphasis in Orchestral Conducting.
Mr. Ting was the guest conductor and strings coach of the Oakland Youth Orchestra for two seasons. He also conducted the U.C. Berkeley Summer Symphony, the Berkeley Sinfonia, the University of Minnesota Symphony Orchestra and the Minneapolis Concerticus. Mr. Ting is an avid music educator in the Bay Area community. During his twelve years of public service with the West Contra Costa Unified School District, he served as the music director for Richmond High, Hercules Middle/High, El Cerrito High, De Jean Middle School, Adams Middle School, Helms Middle School and various elementary schools throughout the Bay Area. In 2008, Mr. Ting founded the Prodigals, a jazz ensemble emphasizing in fusing traditional ethnic music with standard jazz idioms. The Prodigals have performed and toured in the United States and Asia.
丁偉晃指揮自2007年以來，擔任龍吟合唱團的音樂總監。在過去的20年裡，丁先生一直是位音樂教育家、演奏家和指揮。他是采韻音樂教室的負責人，該非謀利組織以通過表演藝術來促進個人的自信為使命。從四歲起，丁先生就跟隨身為音樂教育家的母親接受音樂訓練。他從加州大學柏克萊分校，取得音樂和經濟學學士學位，並在美國明尼蘇達大學拿到音樂碩士學位，主修管弦樂團指揮。丁先生曾指導奧克蘭青少年管弦樂團，並任兩季的客座指揮。他也曾指揮加州大學柏克萊分校暑期交響樂團、柏克萊交響樂團、明尼蘇達交響樂團和明尼阿波利斯管弦樂團。丁先生在西康特拉科斯特統一校區服務12年中，曾擔任列治文高中、海格拉斯初中/高中、愛沙列圖高中、德錦初中、亞當斯初中、赫爾姆斯初中和其他小學的音樂總監。2008年，丁先生創辦了“浪人爵士樂團”，一個強調融合傳統民族音樂與標準爵士樂風格的爵士樂團。“浪人爵士樂團”曾先後在美國和亞洲巡迴演出。
指揮 Conductor
Mr. Peter Black
Peter Black has been Assistant Conductor for the Dragon Singers, bass singer, Rehearsal Pianist, Conductor of the Female Ensemble and composer of choral music from 2019-2024. He has studied Choral and Orchestral Conducting at UC Berkeley with Michael Senturia, receiving his BA degree in Music in 1967. He studied composition with Andrew Imbrie at UC Berkeley. He received his Master of Music in composition degree from New England Conservatory in Boston, studying with Robert Cogan. He has composed eight choral pieces for our choral groups from 2019 to 2024, including River of Sorrows and The Earth and Myself.
His connection with the Dragon Singers goes back to 1983 when he taught music theory and history to Kwok-Kuen Koo (顧國權) at the Music and Arts Institute of San Francisco. For four years, he was Assistant conductor of the UC Symphony Orchestra, performing pieces by Bach, Mozart, Brahms and Stravinsky. He has taught at the College of Marin, and Santa Rosa Junior College, where he conducted the Community Orchestra for four years. He has conducted Church Choirs in Marin County for 12 years. He has coached the Dragon Singers in Latin and Franch pronunciation. He has been a piano accompanist for singers for 50 years.
指揮 Conductor
鄭劉婕輝 Irene Cheng
Irene is honored to have joined The Dragon Singers in 2023 as one of the assistant conductors. Irene is a musician, dancer, conductor, and educator. In 2022, she completed her MA of Music degree in Vocal Performance from Cal State East Bay (CSUEB) and in 2023 its Music Education Certificate Program. Irene spends her days teaching private lessons for piano, voice, drum set, and guitar at Amabile School of Music, and group classes for The Salvation Army in Oakland Chinatown. Irene is a concert percussionist for the West County Winds Symphony. She has also led worship at local churches for a decade and drummed for a local country band.
As a mother, Irene homeschooled her own children and taught group classes for other homeschooled children. In those 18 years, Irene felt led to keep teaching even after her sons grow and up leave. To prepare for this Irene went back to college for advanced degrees in music and education.
Music is one of the very best things in life, and there is nothing that brings more joy to Irene then sharing it with others by giving them the tools to make music their own.
女聲小合唱指揮 Conductor of the Female Ensemble
韓意 Yi Triplett
Born in Shanghai, Yi Triplett, soprano, came to the United States to complete her master’s degree at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Later, to pursue her interest in math and science, she applied and was admitted to the College of Engineering at UC Berkeley, where she graduated with a degree in Civil Engineering. While at Berkeley, Yi gave a solo performance at the noon concert, and sang at the University’s graduation ceremony. Yi performed solos for different choirs, including the International Festival Choir (IFC) where she sang the soprano solo for Vivaldi’s Gloria and Brahms’ Liebeslieder Waltzes, as well as being selected to sing the soprano solo piece in that song cycle. In 2015, Yi sang with the Oakland City Chorus and Civic Orchestra, where she was the soprano soloist for Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy and Bach’s Magnificat. In early 2016, she was a first place winner at the SF Bay Area Chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) competition. In 2016, Yi was featured as the soprano soloist for the Golden Gate Symphony and Chorus (GGS&C) performance of the modern cantata “Ask the Sky & the Earth” and Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 and was recognized by public radio music critics who described her performance as “beautiful, compelling and composed”. In 2017, Yi returned to the GGS&C as the soprano soloist for Handel’s Messiah.
女高音韓意，80年代初進入舊金山音樂學院主修聲樂。之後，在加州大學柏克萊分校攻讀土木結構工程專業。在校期間曾多次舉辦獨唱音樂會，畢業後不管工作多忙，一直積極從事各種演出活動，並經常爲灣區的音樂團體擔任獨唱和領唱。曲目包括：輝煌頌歌 － 維瓦爾第； 愛情圓舞曲 － 勃拉姆斯；幻想合唱 － 貝多芬；第二交響曲 － 馬勒。2016 年在中國作品“歲月甘泉”以及2017和2018年聖誕韓德爾彌撒中的女高音獨唱演出被古典音樂電台KDFC 和 KALW好評爲：優美，自若，感人。
2017年在龍吟合唱團團員們的鼓勵、支持和邀請下，成爲女聲小合唱的指揮。
音樂顧問 Music Advisor
顧國權 Kwok-Kuen Koo
Mr. Koo was born in Shanghai, China. He obtained the Master of Music degree in 1985 from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He studied at the prestigious Shanghai Conservatory of Music, and became a piano soloist with the Zhejiang Philharmonic Orchestra in 1968. He moved to Hong Kong in 1977. In addition to his frequent performances as soloist at the Hong Kong City Hall and on radio and television, he was invited to perform in the Philippines and recorded piano music in Japan. His performances have been reviewed by newspaper Wen-Hui Bao as possessing “the impression of Chinese calligraphy and watercolor paintings,” and described by Mack McCray, a noted pianist, as “wonderful, exciting, moody, powerful.” He has been invited as a guest conductor for Palo Alto Philharmonic and the Winchester Orchestra of San Jose.
顧先生出生於中國上海，1985年獲得舊金山音樂學院音樂碩士學位。他學習於著名的上海音樂學院，並在1968年加入浙江愛樂樂團擔任鋼琴獨奏。他1977年移居香港，經常在香港大會堂，電台和電視台擔任獨奏表演。此外，他應邀到菲律賓表演並在日本錄製鋼琴音樂。文匯報稱讚他演奏的中國作品 “ 帶有一種我國的書法及水墨畫的韻味。” 著名鋼琴家麥克麥克雷則用 “ 美妙非凡，扣人心弦，有聲有色，強勁有力 ” 來描述他的表演。他曾擔任帕洛阿爾托愛樂樂團和聖荷西溫徹斯特樂團客座指揮。
何曉明 Xiaoming He
Mr. He grew up in a family of music professionals. In 1981, he entered the Department of Theoretical Composition at the National Wuhan Academy of Music. After graduation in 1986, Mr. He worked as the Principal Conductor and Composer at the Hunan Radio & Television Orchestra. He has composed and conducted a large number of music works in China, and has received numerous awards. In 1991, Mr. He went to study at the Welsh College of Music and Drama United Kingdom, majoring in Conducting, and graduated in 1995.
作曲家及指揮家。畢業於武漢音樂學院作曲系，並在英國威爾斯音樂戲劇學院研究所主修音樂指揮。曾擔任湖南廣播電視樂團首席指揮兼作曲五年，並指揮過武漢交響樂團、湖南省歌舞團交響樂團、英國威爾斯音樂戲劇學院交響樂團的音樂會。在國內工作期間，創作了大量的電影和電視劇樂曲以及樂隊和聲樂作品。來美後從事電腦音樂的研究、創作和鋼琴教學。現已出版發行了三集小提琴與電子音樂CD，並為聲樂家胡曉平、楊民升等人編配和制作聲樂與電子音樂CD。改編和創作了十餘首合唱曲，被許多灣區合唱團的音樂會所採用。何曉明先生曾擔任灣區多個合唱團的指揮，并在眾多的音樂會上指揮合唱團或為器樂和獨唱擔任伴奏。
歷年指揮 Previous Conductors
| 2006 | 溫顯 | Wen, Michael |
| 1997-2005 | 何曉明 | He, Xiaoming |
| 1996 | 顏適音 | Yen, Amy |
| 1994-1995 | 丁國勛 | Ding, Timothy |
| 1990 | 宗江 | Zong, Jiang |
| 1984-1993 | 顧國權 | Koo, Kwok-Kuen |
| 1983 | 沈育全 | Shen, Jenny |
| 1978 | 羅天樂 | Law, Joshua |
| 1977 | 麥拜倫 | Mcgilvray, Byron |
| 1976-1977 | 黃燮堯 | Wong, Sidney |
| 1973-1984, 1993 | 林廷輝 | Lam, Ting-Fai |
| 1973, 1976, 1981 | 徐天輝 | Hsu, Tom |
| 1973 | 馬葆齡 | Ma, Pauline |
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