Biography簡介
Ke-Yuan Hsin 辛克元
Taiwanese conductor Ke-Yuan Hsin received his Doctor of Musical Arts in Orchestral Conducting from the University of Texas at Austin.
He is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Orchestra at the Tainan National University of the Arts in Tainan, Taiwan. Through the 2025–26 season in the United States he served as Cover Conductor of the Colorado Symphony, Associate Conductor of the Denver Philharmonic Orchestra, Assistant Conductor of the Denver Young Artists Orchestra, the Yakima Symphony Orchestra, and the Boulder Symphony, and Guest Conductor of the Symphony of the Rockies. In 2026 he was Guest Professor of Orchestral Conducting at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota.
From 2019 to 2024, Ke-Yuan served as Music Director of the University of Texas University Orchestra, where he grew the ensemble from 90 to over 150 students across five seasons of programming. Since 2022, he has appeared frequently as a guest conductor with the Williamson County Symphony Orchestra, leading more than thirteen performances; one program was awarded Third Prize in the 2025 American Prize in Orchestral Conducting.
He has conducted professionally across Europe, Asia, and North America, including the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, the Armenian State Symphony Orchestra, the Lliria Symphony Orchestra, the Lviv National Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine, Orchestra Senzaspine, and the National Chinese Orchestra Taiwan.
A devoted champion of new and diverse repertoire, Ke-Yuan has led numerous world premieres and cross-cultural initiatives. At the University of Texas, he produced the orchestra's first-ever concert of Chinese music, featuring erhu soloist Yun-Chen Tsai in a performance of The Butterfly Lovers Concerto at Bates Recital Hall. He has premiered works including Rising Light by Kevin Charoensri — a piece exploring the bicultural intersection of Asian and American identity in support of racial justice — and Equinox by Katahj Copley (2023), which has since been published and performed by orchestras across the country. His work with the University of Texas Orchestras was featured on the KMFA 89.5 Podcast.
指揮家辛克元畢業於美國德州大學奧斯汀分校，獲管弦樂指揮音樂藝術博士學位。
現任國立臺南藝術大學管弦樂團兼任助理教授。2025–26 樂季旅美期間，曾任美國科羅拉多交響樂團（Colorado Symphony）預備指揮、丹佛愛樂（Denver Philharmonic）副指揮，以及丹佛青年藝術家管弦樂團（Denver Young Artists Orchestra）、雅基馬交響樂團（Yakima Symphony Orchestra）及波德交響樂團（Boulder Symphony）助理指揮，並受邀擔任落磯山交響樂團（Symphony of the Rockies）客席指揮。2026 年獲邀擔任美國明尼蘇達州康考迪亞學院（Concordia College）管弦樂指揮客座教授。
2019 年至 2024 年間，辛克元擔任德州大學奧斯汀分校大學管弦樂團音樂總監，五個樂季間帶領樂團規模由 90 人擴展至超過 150 人，並策劃多場大型演出。自 2022 年起，多次受邀指揮威廉森郡交響樂團（Williamson County Symphony Orchestra），累積指揮超過十三場音樂會，其中一套音樂會節目榮獲 2025 年美國藝術獎（The American Prize）管弦樂指揮類第三名。
他的指揮足跡遍及歐洲、亞洲與北美，曾指揮薩格勒布愛樂、亞美尼亞國家交響樂團、利里亞交響樂團、烏克蘭利維夫國家愛樂、Orchestra Senzaspine 以及臺灣國樂團等職業樂團。
近年致力於推廣新作品與多元文化曲目，辛克元曾於德州大學策劃該校首場華人音樂作品專場音樂會，邀請二胡演奏家蔡昀宸於 Bates Recital Hall 演出《梁祝》二胡協奏曲。他另首演 Kevin Charoensri 的《Rising Light》，一部探討亞裔與美國雙重文化認同、聲援種族平權的作品；以及 Katahj Copley 的《Equinox》（2023）。《Equinox》其後正式出版，並由美國多個樂團演出；其帶領德州大學管弦樂團的策劃成果亦獲美國古典音樂電臺 KMFA 89.5 Podcast 專訪報導。
