Tiffany Chang

Concert III, 2026-2027 Season

Taiwanese-American conductor Tiffany Chang is a prolific and visionary leader who empowers arts organizations to turn work culture into strategic advantage. A two-time Solti Foundation U.S. Career Assistance Award recipient and winner of the OPERA America Grant for Women Stage Directors and Conductors, she is celebrated for her "refined stage presence" and "sophisticated" musicality.

Currently serving as Interim Executive Director of Asian Opera Alliance, Tiffany's a Music Director candidate for Symphony New Hampshire. Recent and upcoming engagements include The Dallas Opera, Houston Grand Opera/Asia Society Texas (The Big Swim), Ryan Opera Center of Lyric Opera of Chicago, Washington National Opera (covering Macbeth, Grounded), Minnesota Opera (The Song Poet), Portland Opera (Tosca), Opera Columbus (Tosca), and Little Opera Theatre of New York (Eine florentinische Tragödie). For 10 seasons, she was Music Director/Conductor for the NEMPAC Opera Project where she conducted Così fan tutte, Don Giovanni, Carmen, Fidelio, La Cenerentola, Die Fledermaus, La bohème, and The Little Prince.

Tiffany maintains a strong academic presence as guest conductor, championing both canonical and contemporary repertoire—including Boston Conservatory (Little Women, Riders to the Sea, Whaling Women), University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory (Chérubin), Oberlin Conservatory (The Puppy Episode), and Boston University (Vinkensport, or The Finch Opera, Later the Same Evening).

Her other engagements include AMIS European Honors Orchestra Festival, Fulton Summer Music Academy Orchestra, BlueWater Chamber Orchestra, OperaHub, College Light Opera Company, Dinosaur Annex New Music Ensemble, ALEA III, Xanthos Ensemble, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston, Brookline Symphony Orchestra, Parkway Concert Orchestra, Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra, Northern Ohio Youth Orchestras, among others.

As the author of the blog Conductor as CEO (recognized among FeedSpot's Best CEO Blogs in 2025), Tiffany is one of the most distinctive thinkers in the arts on organizational culture. She has contributed her insights to publications like Routledge Press, Leader to Leader, Notes from the Podium, and PM World Journal. She is also sought-after as a speaker and a certified CoCreate Work culture consultant, having participated in global leadership programs such as Forefront powered by 100 Coaches and the altMBA.

For the first decade of her career, she revolutionized orchestral programs as a conductor at Oberlin Conservatory, Berklee College of Music, Boston University, and Baldwin Wallace Conservatory.

Tiffany studied orchestral conducting with David Hoose and Bridget-Michaele Reischl; she has also worked with Carlo Montanaro, Emmanuel Villaume, Gustav Meier, JoAnn Falletta, Robert Spano, Gunther Schuller, Larry Rachleff, and Ann Howard Jones. She also studied cello with Amir Eldan, Hans Jensen, and Peter Reijto and composition with Amelia Kaplan and Jeffrey Kowalkowski.

She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in orchestral conducting from Boston University and several degrees from Oberlin Conservatory in cello performance, music education, composition, and music theory.

Visit www.tiffanychang.net for more.

Photo credit: Tanya Rosen-Jones