Previous engagements have taken him to the Deutschen Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, WDR Sinfonieorchester, SWR Symphonieorchester, NDR Radiophilharmonie, hr-Sinfonieorchester, Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, Tonkünstler-Orchester, Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Oslo Philharmonic, BBC Symphony Orchestra, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Taiwan Philharmonic, NCPA Orchestra, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Auckland Philharmonia, and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. This season he returns to the MDR-Sinfonieorchester, Dresdner Philharmonie, Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Lapland Chamber Orchestra, Sønderjylland Symphony Orchestra, Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra, and Oviedo Filarmonía.

This young and up-and-coming conductor from Taiwan laid the foundation for his international career in 2015 by winning the International Malko Competition in Copenhagen. Before that, he had already won prizes at the Sir Georg Solti International Conducting Competition in Frankfurt, the Gustav Mahler Conducting Competition in Bamberg and the Jeunesses Musicales International Conducting Competition in Bucharest. In 2010, Chuang received the Edwin B. Garrigues Fellowship of the Curtis Institute of Music. A year later in Philadelphia, he initiated the Curtis Japan Benefit Concert, donating all proceeds to the victims of the March 2011 earthquake through the Japanese Red Cross. In 2012, he launched the first orchestral ‘flashmob’ in Taiwan in his role as Principal Conductor of the National Taiwan University Symphony Orchestra.

Born into a family of professional musicians, Chuang learned to play the horn and the piano from an early age, giving his first public concert at the age of eleven. He continued his studies at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and the Hochschule für Musik “Franz Liszt” Weimar. His mentors include Mark Gibson, Gustav Meier, Otto-Werner Mueller, and Nicolás Pasquet. The conductor resides with his family in Bochum.

SEASON 2025 / 2026