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High School
Clinician: David Tang
David Tang has led the Wheeling, Charleston, Windsor and Quad City Symphony Orchestras, as well as the Charlotte Civic Orchestra. He has served on the faculty of Davidson College and led acclaimed ballet performances for the North Carolina Dance Theatre and the Charleston Ballet Theatre. In 2001, Mr. Tang conducted members of the Philadelphia Orchestra and Philadelphia Singers in the nationally broadcast North American television debut of British tenor, Russell Watson for U.S. Public Broadcasting. Mr. Tang holds degrees in philosophy and choral conducting from Yale University, as well as degrees in orchestra and opera conducting from the University of Michigan. He has worked with many of the world’s pre-eminent conductors, including Seiji Ozawa, Robert Spano, Christof Perick, Helmuth Rilling, Neeme Järvi, and Robert Shaw. David Tang grew up in Cleveland, Ohio where he studied piano, trumpet and horn. He and his wife, True, currently live in the Cotswold neighborhood of Charlotte, N.C. |
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David
Tang is the founding Artistic Director of the Firebird
Arts Alliance, a non-profit arts organization designed to build
community by facilitating artistic collaboration. He also directs
VOX, an innovative, semi-professional chamber choir at Central
Piedmont Community College, and serves as the Interim Artistic
Director of Carolina Voices for the 2008-09 season. Before founding
Firebird in 2007, Mr. Tang led the Oratorio Singers of Charlotte
from 1996-2004 and served as the Resident Conductor of the Charlotte
Symphony Orchestra from 1998-2003. He was also the Artistic
Director of the award-winning Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia
from 2002-2004, and the head of orchestral music at West Virginia
University in 2004-05.