Yuchi Chou is a student of Maestro Michael Morgan at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Born in Taiwan, Ms. Chou holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Piano Performance. Her conducting teacher at Oberlin, Bridget-Michaele Reischl, is one of the leading American women conductors. She has also studied with Robert Spano, Kirk Trevor, Carlos Moreno, Johannes Schlaefi, David Newby, Timothy Weiss, and Hugh Floyd. Her piano teacher at Oberlin, Robert G. Shannon, has been her most influential mentor musically and philosophically.

Ms. Chou is active in opera conducting, as well as orchestral conducting. She has toured several cities in Italy, serving as the assistant conductor for Bellini’s La Sonnambula and Donizetti’s “L’elisir d’amore”. Before she attended the Oberlin Conservatory, she was an active solo and chamber pianist, and won many national awards in Taiwan.