American orchestra and opera conductor Channing Yu is Music Director of the Mercury Orchestra in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is the national winner of the 2010 American Prize in Orchestral Conducting in the community orchestra division.
He previously served as Music Director of the Dudley Orchestra in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Music Director of Bay Colony Brass in Watertown, Massachusetts; Leader of the Powers Community String Orchestra in Belmont, Massachusetts; and Conductor of the Massachusetts Youth Symphony Project Preparatory String Orchestra in Belmont, Massachusetts. He was Associate Artistic Director of the Refugee Orchestra Project in New York City.
He has also served as Artistic Director and Conductor of the Lowell House Opera, the oldest opera company in New England, where he conducted over thirty fully staged performances with orchestra, including Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier, Puccini’s Turandot, Verdi’s Otello, and Puccini’s Tosca. For his musical direction of Tosca, he was awarded second prize in the 2011 American Prize in Opera Conducting national competition.
He served as guest conductor at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, in its production of Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s baroque opera Les arts florissants. He was guest conductor of Atrium Winds in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. He was also invited to guest conduct the Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra in Greensburg, Pennsylvania.
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- REVIEW: Mercury Ascendant —Boston Musical Intelligencer, July 15, 2019
- REVIEW: Mercury (Orchestra) rises in Boston Landmarks’ muggy summer sendoff —Boston Classical Review, August 30, 2018
- REVIEW: Mercury Meets Its Challenges —Boston Musical Intelligencer, July 16, 2018
- REVIEW: Mercury Beats Heat —Boston Musical Intelligencer, August 14, 2016
- REVIEW: Playing Passionately with Mercury —Boston Musical Intelligencer, July 20, 2015
- Bay Colony Brass Comes to Town —Arlington Advocate, October 19, 2014
- REVIEW: Mercury Orchestra at Sanders Theatre: A radiant Mahler —Boston Concert Reviews, July 31, 2014
- REVIEW: Mercury Orchestra Plays like a Pro —Boston Musical Intelligencer, July 21, 2014
- The American Prize Announces Winners in Opera Performance & Conducting —Musical America, August 2, 2011
- Channing Yu is National Second Place Winner in The American Prize in Opera Conducting, 2011 —American Prize website, July 22, 2011
- REVIEW: Mercury Orchestra a Marvel in Mahler 6 —The Boston Musical Intelligencer
- Mercury Rises Again for its Single Annual Performance —Boston Globe, July 22, 2011
- Cambridge Orchestra Wins Prestigious Award —Boston Globe, July 13, 2010
- Channing Yu Wins 2010 American Prize in Orchestral Conducting —Mercury Orchestra News, July 9, 2010
- Channing Yu Wins the American Prize in Orchestral Conducting — American Prize website, July 9, 2010
- Cambridge-based Mercury Orchestra Wins American Prize —Cambridge Chronicle, June 21, 2010