音樂總監暨指揮 Music Director and Conductor

丁偉晃 Andrew W. Ting

Andrew W. Ting has been a global music educator and performer for the past 20 years. Mr. Ting is the Executive Director of WePerform.Org, a non-profit organization with the mission of promoting self-confidence through performance art. He is also the Music Director of The Dragon Singers since 2007.

Mr. Ting began his formal musical training at the age of four with his mother, an accomplished music educator. He received his bachelor’s degrees in Music and Economics from the University of California at Berkeley, and from the University of Minnesota he pursued his Masters in Music with an emphasis in Orchestral Conducting.

Mr. Ting was the guest conductor and strings coach of the Oakland Youth Orchestra for two seasons. He also conducted the U.C. Berkeley Summer Symphony, the Berkeley Sinfonia, the University of Minnesota Symphony Orchestra and the Minneapolis Concerticus. Mr. Ting is an avid music educator in the Bay Area community. During his twelve years of public service with the West Contra Costa Unified School District, he served as the music director for Richmond High, Hercules Middle/High, El Cerrito High, De Jean Middle School, Adams Middle School, Helms Middle School and various elementary schools throughout the Bay Area. In 2008, Mr. Ting founded the Prodigals, a jazz ensemble emphasizing in fusing traditional ethnic music with standard jazz idioms. The Prodigals have performed and toured in the United States and Asia.

丁偉晃指揮自2007年以來，擔任龍吟合唱團的音樂總監。在過去的20年裡，丁先生一直是位音樂教育家、演奏家和指揮。他是采韻音樂教室的負責人，該非謀利組織以通過表演藝術來促進個人的自信為使命。從四歲起，丁先生就跟隨身為音樂教育家的母親接受音樂訓練。他從加州大學柏克萊分校，取得音樂和經濟學學士學位，並在美國明尼蘇達大學拿到音樂碩士學位，主修管弦樂團指揮。丁先生曾指導奧克蘭青少年管弦樂團，並任兩季的客座指揮。他也曾指揮加州大學柏克萊分校暑期交響樂團、柏克萊交響樂團、明尼蘇達交響樂團和明尼阿波利斯管弦樂團。丁先生在西康特拉科斯特統一校區服務12年中，曾擔任列治文高中、海格拉斯初中/高中、愛沙列圖高中、德錦初中、亞當斯初中、赫爾姆斯初中和其他小學的音樂總監。2008年，丁先生創辦了“浪人爵士樂團”，一個強調融合傳統民族音樂與標準爵士樂風格的爵士樂團。“浪人爵士樂團”曾先後在美國和亞洲巡迴演出。

指揮、作曲家、鋼琴伴奏 Conductor, Composer, Rehearsal Pianist

Mr. Peter Black

Peter Black has been Assistant Conductor for the Dragon Singers, bass singer, Rehearsal Pianist, Conductor of the Female Ensemble and Composer of choral music from 2019- 2024. He has studied Choral and Orchestral Conducting at UC Berkeley with Michael Senturia, receiving his BA degree in Music in 1967. He studied with composer Andrew Imbrie in private lessons and at UC Berkeley. He was a bassoonist in the UC Symphony for seven years. In 1974 he received his Master of Music in Composition degree at New England Conservatory in Boston, studying with composer Robert Cogan. A native of Marin County, he won the Marin Symphony composition competition in 2000 for the cantata Vision Fire. He has composed and conducted eight choral pieces for Dragon Singers choral groups from 2019 to 2024, including River of Sorrows, For We are Stars and The Earth and Myself.

His connection with the Dragon Singers goes back to 1983 when he taught music theory and history to Kwok-Kuen Koo at the Music and Arts Institute of San Francisco. For four years, he was Assistant Conductor of the UC Symphony Orchestra, performing pieces by Bach, Mozart, Brahms and Stravinsky. He has taught at the College of Marin, and Santa Rosa Junior College, where he conducted the Community Orchestra for four years. He has conducted Church Choirs in Marin County for 12 years. He has coached the Dragon Singers in Latin, German and French pronunciation. He has been the Dragon Singers rehearsal pianist and an accompanist for solo singers for 50 years.

Mr. Black 於2019年至2024年期間，擔任龍吟助理指揮、男低音、鋼琴伴奏、女聲小合唱指揮、及合唱作曲家。他在加州大學柏克萊分校，師從Michael Senturia學習合唱和管弦樂指揮，師從Andrew Imbrie學習作曲，並於1967年獲得學士學位。他在加州大學交響樂團演奏七年的低音管。1974年，他在作曲家Robert Cogan教授的指導下，獲得了波士頓新英格蘭音樂學院的音樂碩士學位。2000 年憑藉清唱劇《Vision Fire》贏得了Marin交響樂作曲比賽。2019年至2024年間，他為龍吟合唱團創作並指揮了八首合唱作品，包括《江河水》、《因為我們是星星》、《大地與我》。

他與龍吟的淵源可以追溯到1983年，當時他在舊金山音樂藝術學院教授前龍吟指揮顧國權老師音樂理論和音樂史。他擔任四年加州大學交響樂團的助理指揮，演奏巴赫、莫扎特、勃拉姆斯和斯特拉文斯基的作品。他曾在 College of Marin和 Santa Rosa Junior College任教，並指揮社區管弦樂團四年。他在Marin County擔任12年教堂合唱團指揮。他指導龍吟團員拉丁語、德語和法語發音。他在龍吟排練時擔任鋼琴伴奏，也曾為獨唱歌手們伴奏50年。

指揮 Conductor

鄭劉婕輝 Irene Cheng

Irene Cheng is a musician, dancer, conductor, and educator. In 2022, she completed her Master’s of Music degree in Vocal Performance from Cal State East Bay (CSUEB) and in 2023 the Music Education Certificate Program also from CSUEB. Irene joined The Dragon Singers in 2023 to serve as the Assistant Conductor. She also teaches private and group lessons for voice, piano, guitar, ukulele, drum set, and worship band. She is on staff with Amabile School of Music in Moraga and San Francisco, and she teaches music for The Salvation Army Oakland Chinatown as well. In her spare time, Irene is a concert percussionist for the West County Winds and for the Kensington Symphony Orchestra. In the past, Irene spent ten years leading music in church services, whether on vocals, keys, or percussion. One of Irene’s most colorful musical experiences involved drumming on street corners for a country band named Suzi and the Sidewinders.

The fondest musical childhood memories began with the family watching The Lawrence Welk Show after dinner. They featured all sorts of musical acts, and Irene’s father held her in his arms and danced around the living room to old fashioned polka music. Formal music training started with private classical piano at age nine, but a few years later, a different teacher taught Irene how to improvise with chords. By the time she got to high school jazz band, those improvisational skills came in handy on the piano and vibraphone. In middle school and high school Irene started her journey as a percussionist too. Marching band, concert band, and drumline filled her early mornings, afternoons, and weekends. In college, Irene began singing with the Women’s Chorale at UC Berkeley, where she first became aware of how music performed well has the power to move audiences, even though they could not understand the words.

When her first-born turned 3 years old, Irene decided to be a homeschooler. While teaching her own children, she also volunteered to teach group classes with HEARTS Homeschool Coop one day a week for other homeschooled children: group piano, percussion, drum set, choir, partner dance, choreography, dance aerobics, long distance running, woodworking, machine sewing, art, creative writing, and more. Mrs. Cheng was the “Fun Mom.” People would say that they were surprised how these fun classes were rather difficult, but kids were willing to put in the time because they loved what they were learning.

In those 18 years of volunteer teaching, Irene grew deeper in her calling to keep teaching even after her children grew up and left home. To prepare for becoming a professional music teacher, Irene went back to college later in life and studied music for 9 years. Music is one of the very best things in life, and there is nothing that brings more joy to Irene than to share it with others by giving them the tools to make music their own.

女聲小合唱指揮 Conductor of the Female Ensemble

韓意 Yi Triplett

Born in Shanghai, Yi Triplett, soprano, came to the United States to complete her master’s degree at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Later, to pursue her interest in math and science, she applied and was admitted to the College of Engineering at UC Berkeley, where she graduated with a degree in Civil Engineering. While at Berkeley, Yi gave a solo performance at the noon concert, and sang at the University’s graduation ceremony. Yi performed solos for different choirs, including the International Festival Choir (IFC) where she sang the soprano solo for Vivaldi’s Gloria and Brahms’ Liebeslieder Waltzes, as well as being selected to sing the soprano solo piece in that song cycle. In 2015, Yi sang with the Oakland City Chorus and Civic Orchestra, where she was the soprano soloist for Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy and Bach’s Magnificat. In early 2016, she was a first place winner at the SF Bay Area Chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) competition. In 2016, Yi was featured as the soprano soloist for the Golden Gate Symphony and Chorus (GGS&C) performance of the modern cantata “Ask the Sky & the Earth” and Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 and was recognized by public radio music critics who described her performance as “beautiful, compelling and composed”. In 2017, Yi returned to the GGS&C as the soprano soloist for Handel’s Messiah.

女高音韓意，80年代初進入舊金山音樂學院主修聲樂。之後，在加州大學柏克萊分校攻讀土木結構工程專業。在校期間曾多次舉辦獨唱音樂會，畢業後不管工作多忙，一直積極從事各種演出活動，並經常爲灣區的音樂團體擔任獨唱和領唱。曲目包括：輝煌頌歌 － 維瓦爾第； 愛情圓舞曲 － 勃拉姆斯；幻想合唱 － 貝多芬；第二交響曲 － 馬勒。2016 年在中國作品“歲月甘泉”以及2017和2018年聖誕韓德爾彌撒中的女高音獨唱演出被古典音樂電台KDFC 和 KALW好評爲：優美，自若，感人。

2017年在龍吟合唱團團員們的鼓勵、支持和邀請下，成爲女聲小合唱的指揮。

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歷年指揮 Previous Conductors

2006	溫顯	Wen, Michael
1997-2005	何曉明	He, Xiaoming
1996	顏適音	Yen, Amy
1994-1995	丁國勛	Ding, Timothy
1990	宗江	Zong, Jiang
1984-1993	顧國權	Koo, Kwok-Kuen
1983	沈育全	Shen, Jenny
1978	羅天樂	Law, Joshua
1977	麥拜倫	Mcgilvray, Byron
1976-1977	黃燮堯	Wong, Sidney
1973-1984, 1993	林廷輝	Lam, Ting-Fai
1973, 1976, 1981	徐天輝	Hsu, Tom
1973	馬葆齡	Ma, Pauline