A music director for Yonkers
mainTong Chen, a former assistant conductor of the Shanghai Opera, has been named music director in the fourth largest city in New York state. She teaches at NY City University.
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Great news! Tong Chen is a wonderful musician and very respected maestra! This will be a tremendous growth spurt for this orchestra! Congratulations to Tong Chen!!
Congrats to her and nice to learn that Yonkers is the fourth largest city in NY State. I always thought it was NYC, Buffalo, Rochester (my hometown) then Syracuse…
Brava maestra Chen, and congratulations to the Yonkers Philharmonic!
She actually teaches at Queens College, which is part of CUNY (City University of New York), and is where I also attended, but for violin. She recieved her graduate and post graduate diplomas in conducting from the school.
http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/music/faculty/tong-chen
Congrats to her!
Congratulations Tong! Brava!
Bravo Tong! She went to Peabody Conservatory with me as well!!
Good for her and kudos. But Yonkers is a very, very, minor amateur orchestra, so why they hoopla? Not detracting from the Maestra’s thunder and sure she will move on and up, but this is a non-orchestra in the professional arena. With 30 years playing in NYC, I never heard of it and had to look it up.