Steven Huang has conducted orchestras and operas across the country and throughout the world. At the age of twenty-one, he served as Music Director of the Bach Society Orchestra of Harvard University, where he received his undergraduate degree. While at Harvard, Mr. Huang also directed the Lowell House Opera (the oldest continuously running opera company in New England), in a critically acclaimed production of Kurt Weill’s The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny.

Mr. Huang has worked with young musicians in the nationally recognized Irvine Youth Symphony and the Four Seasons Orchestra in Southern California. He has held the position of Music Director of the University of Chicago Chamber Orchestra, the Central Illinois Youth Symphony, the Gilbert and Sullivan Players of Chicago, and the Bradley University Orchestra. He also founded the Peoria Young Players, an elite ensemble of young musicians. Additionally, Mr. Huang has served as conductor for the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras. He has guest conducted programs with the Illinois Symphony Orchestra, the Lawrence University Wind Ensemble, and the Lake Shore Symphony. Abroad, he has led the New Symphony Orchestra of Bulgaria; the Attergau Kultursommer Orchestra in Austria, where he conducted for their twentieth anniversary concert; the Jeunesses Musicales Festival Orchestra in Romania; and L’Orchestre Philharmonique de Sainte Trinité, Haiti, where he volunteers to teach young Haitian musicians.

Mr. Huang has studied conducting in Europe as well as the United States with such teachers as Dumitru Goia, Michael Jinbo, Kenneth Kiesler, Gustav Meier, and Rossen Milanov. He earned the Master of Music degree in Orchestral Conducting from the University of Michigan, where he was the recipient of the Marian W. and Ernest A. Jones Conducting Scholarship. Huang twice received the Herbert von Karajan Fellowship for Young Conductors for study at the Salzburg Festival, and the Fulbright Fellowship for study at the National University of Music in Bucharest, where he received an Artist’s Diploma. Mr. Huang has also studied with Mr. Leonard Slatkin at the National Conducting Institute.

“Huang himself…conducted from the keyboard, giving cues with his head, sometimes jumping from the piano bench, and turning his own pages with what must have been a third hand while playing piano and conducting. The multi-talented Huang seemed to revel in the challenge. Indeed, the major ingredient in the success of this project is Huang’s joy in making music, which he communicates exuberantly and decisively.” — Peoria Times-Observer