Tian Hui Ng

Director, Mount Holyoke Symphony Orchestra

Conductor, composer, and singer, Ng Tian Hui is the Interim Director of Choral and Vocal Studies at Haverford and Bryn Mawr colleges, where he directs the Chorale, the Chamber Singers and leads its vocal program. In addition, Mr. Ng is known for his versatility as a composer and has written music for animation, dance, film, and theatre, as well as for the classical mediums of choir and orchestra. As a baritone, he has performed to critical acclaim as a soloist with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra and the Philharmonic Chamber Choir of Singapore. Mr Ng holds a Master of Music degree in Choral Conducting from the Yale School of Music and the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, where he studied with Marguerite Brooks, Simon Carrington Jeffrey Douma and Masaaki Suzuki. He received the Bachelor of Music from the University of Birmingham, UK where he studied composition with Vic Hoyland and orchestral conducting with Andrew Constantine, trombone with Phillip Harrison, and Sackbut with Susan Addison. At Yale, he was the principal assistant conductor of the Yale Camerata, co-conductor of the Yale Recital Chorus and the Saybrook College Orchestra, and was the ensemble manager of the Yale Schola Cantorum. At Birmingham, he was the conductor of the Chamber Choir, the Chamber Orchestra, Sinfonia, Recital Chorus and Summer Festival New Music Ensemble and Opera. He has participated in conducting master classes with Simon Halsey, Paul Hillier, Nicholas McGegan, Helmuth Rilling and Dale Warland, among others. His outstanding work at Yale won him the Edwin Stanley Seder Scholarship in 2009 and the Hugh Porter Scholarship in 2010. He was awarded the Silver Award at the National Arts Education Awards in 2006 for his work in crafting an integrated arts programme which embraced Music, Dance, Theatre and the Visual Arts at Ang Mo Kio Secondary School in Singapore. He has taught at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University of Singapore, and has made numerous presentations at conferences and workshops. In 2010, Mr. Ng looks forward to performances of Handel’s Messiah and Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem, the revival of a Magnificat by Mexican Baroque Composer Ignacio de Jerusalem, and the premieres of several new works by composers based in Austria, Singapore and the United States.