About Us
Salt Lake Chinese Choir is founded in November 14, 2002 as a non-for-profit organization. In 2019, Salt Lake Chinese Choir became a tax exempt 501c(3) entity. The Salt Lake Chinese Choir is a nonprofit, nonpolitical and nonsectarian organization established to preserve, promote, and enhance Chinese culture through music and choral arts.
Mission Statement
Our mission is to provide a place for all people to learn about and participate in the practice and performance of choral music.
Music Director
A citizen of Taiwan, Yu-Feng Huang earned his Doctor of Musical Arts in Choral Conducting from the University of Utah. He has performed with numerous groups that make up the choral landscape of Utah. He currently serves as the music director of the Salt Lake Chinese Choir.
As a conductor, Yu-Feng has served as music director for more than ten choirs, including Taiwan’s National Chiao-Tung University Chorus, National Cheng-Chi University Law Department Chorus, as well as several high school and community choirs across Taiwan. He has performed with international award-winning choirs and introduced contemporary Asian choral music to American audiences as a guest conductor of the Choral Arts Society of Utah.
Dr. Huang’s dissertation topic is creating easy-to-understand guidelines for non-Chinese speakers to sing Chinese authentically. With the support of the Salt Lake Chinese Choir, he created the Chinese Choral Repertoire Promotion Project to enhance intercultural communication. Through teaching Americans to sing in Chinese, this project introduced Chinese literature and culture via choral music, and additionally brought current Chinese choral scenery to American singers and audiences.
During his time at the University of Utah, Yu-Feng studied under Dr. Barlow Bradford, served as a teaching assistant with the University of Utah Chamber Choir and A Cappella Choir, and was an instructor of the undergraduate conducting class. He received his Master of Fine Arts in Choral Conducting under Dr. Ai-Kuang Sun (孫愛光) at the National Taiwan Normal University, considered the best choral program in Taiwan. Yu-Feng learned as a protégé of famed choral conductor Fang-Pei Lien (連芳貝) with the National Taiwan University Chorus for more than 10 years.
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台灣台北人。猶他大學音樂學院取得合唱指揮博士學位。並積極參與猶他州當地合唱活動。現任鹽湖華人合唱團音樂總監。
歷年來指導過的合唱團不計其數，在台灣合作的團體包含交通大學合唱團、政治大學法律學院合唱團以及多所國高中學校合唱團和社區合唱團，教學足跡遍及北台灣各縣市。指導的合唱團在台灣各級比賽中皆有優秀的成績與表現。在美期間，多次擔任客席指揮，並將當代亞洲合唱曲目介紹給美國聽眾。
如何幫助非中文母語者如實地演唱中文合唱為黃育峰博士的論文研究方向，他建構了一套簡而易懂的準則，協助歌手們能精準地演唱中文。並在鹽湖華人合唱團的支持下，執行華語合唱曲目推廣計劃。透過合唱曲目的教學，介紹中國文學及文化給非中文母語的朋友，促進文化交流！
在猶他大學就讀期間，師事Barlow Bradford博士，並擔任學校室內合唱團以及無伴奏合唱團之助理指揮，並教授大學部指揮法課程。於台灣師範大學取得合唱指揮碩士學位，師承孫愛光博士。赴美前，長年跟隨台大合唱團連芳貝老師學習合唱指揮。
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Piano Accompanist
Yanqi Wang is pursuing her Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree in Piano Performance at the University of Utah, study under the guidance of the piano area head, Dr. Ning Lu. She has been playing piano since she was four years old. In 2014, she was admitted to the School of Music in Nanjing Normal University, study with the chair of piano department, Professor Yuyu Zhang. After earning her bachelor’s degree in music (BM), she continued her study with Dr. Ning Lu and earned her Master of Musical Art (MM) in Piano Performance from University of Utah in 2021
As a pianist, she was the prizewinner of several competitions, included the first prize of 2021 Summer Arts Competition Young Artist Piano Solo; honorable mention of MTNA-Stecher and Horowitz Two-Piano Competition; second prize in CADANZA piano competition and honorable mention in YAMAHA national piano competition. As a collaborative pianist and chamber musician, she was invited to the Saarburg Chamber Music Festival in 2017 and has been a piano accompanist with the Salt Lake Chinese Choir since 2018.
She has earned piano scholarship for three consecutive years during her undergraduate study. During her master years in the University of Utah, she earned teaching assistantship for two years and served as a teaching assistant with the piano minor college students.
王妍琦，四岁开始习琴，2014年以优异成绩被南京师范大学音乐系录取，在钢琴系主任张昱煜指导下获得钢琴学士学位，随后在犹他大学继续深造至今，钢琴演奏学博士在读生，师从犹他大学音乐学院钢琴系主任鲁宁教授。曾获2021年SummerArt 艺术节青年组钢琴独奏第一名，协奏组第二名；美国MTNA-Stecher and Horowitz双钢琴比赛荣誉奖；卡丹赛钢琴比赛二等奖；雅马哈全国钢琴比赛优秀奖。2017年曾受邀参加Saarbug室内乐音乐节，并在2018年担任盐湖城华人合唱团钢琴伴奏至今。在本科期间，连续三年获得珠江钢琴奖学金；在研究生期间连续两年担任犹他大学钢琴系助教
