(Photo: ©2025 Chris Lee) Conductor and Lerman-Newbauer Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin led the Met Orchestra at NYC’s Carnegie Hall for a special night featuring Richard Strauss works on Thursday, June 12, 2025, showcasing one of the world’s leading lyric-dramatic sopranos, Elza van den Heever, who just concluded her season of performances as Salome at Met Opera. The night was full of standing {…}
David Chan is taking a one-year leave of absence as the concertmaster of the Metropolitan Opera as he has been appointed as a Professor of Violin at the Rice Shepherd School of Music at Rice University starting in the fall of 2025. According to a press release, the violinist will move to Houston this summer with his wife, the violinist {…}
The Taipei Music Academy & Festival has announced that internationally renowned violinist David Chan will assume the position of Artistic Director in 2025 for a three-year term. Chan is a graduate of Harvard University and the Juilliard School and a prize winner of numerous international competitions, including the Tchaikovsky and Indianapolis competitions. He is currently the Concertmaster of the Metropolitan {…}
The Apollo Orchestra has announced that David Chan has been appointed as the new Principal Conductor. Chan has been a guest conductor for the 2022-2023 and the 2023-2024 seasons and will officially join the artistic team for the final performance on June 2 of music by Mahler and Hindemith. In a statement, Chan said, “I’m honored to be part of {…}
Credo Music Festival has announced that Metropolitan Opera concertmaster David Chan has been appointed as its new director. The new season which will mark the company’s 25th anniversary and will see Chan conduct at this year’s festival. However, his tenure will begin at the 2025 festival. In his new position, Chan will provide “a uniquely meaningful opportunity where I can {…}
The Montclair Orchestra has signed David Chan as Music Director for another seven years, extending his tenure with the orchestra until 2027, and marking 10 years in the role. The extension will allow the organization to work together with Chan to execute important new artistic and education initiatives, including the development of a new youth orchestra program to serve the {…}
