“A major presence”
the New York Times
“Yue Bao has delivered this evening”
-Classical MPR
“Yue Bao is also a highly concentrated and controlled artist, and she has a graceful and elegant economy of movement that was transmitted to the orchestra creating a sense of lively cheerfulness.”
-Bachtrack
Conductor Yue Bao made her subscription debut with the Houston Symphony on their opening night concert of the 20/21 season, and has led the orchestra both at Jones Hall and at their summer concert series at the Miller Theatre. She made her Chicago Symphony Orchestra debut at the Ravinia Festival in 2021.
This season, Bao returns to Munich to conduct the Munich Symphony Orchestra and makes her debut in Nuremberg with the Nuremberg Symfoniker, she will be conducting the Santa Rosa Symphony as well as the Oviedo Filarmonía. In recent seasons, she has debuted with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra with soloist Jan Vogler, the Orchestra of St Luke’s with soloist Hélène Grimaud, and the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra.
Bao has conducted the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Seattle Symphony, and the Calgary Philharmonic. She also debuted with the San Francisco Symphony, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and the Minnesota Orchestra. She has worked with soloists including: Jan Vogler, Hélène Grimaud, Pablo Ferrández, Vadim Gluzman, Bomsori, Ying Li, Hera Hyesang Park, Jeneba Kanneh-Mason, Chad Hoopes, and Stella Chen.
She has worked extensively in the United States and abroad. Equally at home with both symphonic and operatic repertoire, she has conducted Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, Bizet’s Carmen, Kurt Weill’s Mahagonny: Ein Songspiel, and Gian Carlo Menotti’s The Medium.
Bao was the Bruno Walter Memorial Foundation Conducting Fellow at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music. In 2018, she served as the David Effron Conducting Fellow at the Chautauqua Music Festival, where she returned as a guest conductor in the 2022 season.
Along with her Artist Diploma from The Curtis Institute of Music, where she was the Rita E Hauser Conducting Fellow and studied with Yannick Nezet-Sèguin, Bao holds Bachelors of Music degrees in orchestral conducting and opera accompanying from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and a Master of Music degree in orchestral conducting from the Mannes School of Music. She served as the Ting Tsung and Wei Fung Chao Foundation Assistant Conductor at the Houston Symphony.
Yue Bao is represented worldwide by Tanja Dorn at Dorn Music.
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February 2025
