Darrell Ang has been the artistic director and chief conductor of China’s Sichuan Symphony since December 2016. He regularly conducts the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the ‘Giuseppe Verdi’ Symphony Orchestra, Milan, the Munich Radio Orchestra, the NHK Symphony Orchestra, the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, the Singapore Symphony and the Mariinsky Orchestra in St Petersburg.

His first disc for Naxos was nominated for a GRAMMY^® Award in 2016 (Zhou Long/Chen Yi Symphony ‘Humen 1839’, 8.570611). Ang studied conducting in St Petersburg and at Yale. He took all three top awards at the 50th Besançon International Young Conductors’ Competition, leading to the music directorship of the Orchestre Symphonique de Bretagne (2012–15) and—as recipient of the Allianz Cultural Foundation Young Conductors’ Award—was invited to take on residencies with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Philharmonia Orchestra, where he was mentored by Lorin Maazel and Esa-Pekka Salonen.

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