Taiwanese conductor Ke-Yuan Hsin currently serves as Associate Conductor of the Denver Philharmonic, and Assistant Conductor of both the Yakima Symphony Orchestra and the Denver Young Artists Orchestra. He has also served as cover conductor for the Symphony of the Rockies and the Boulder Symphony. From 2019 to 2024, he was Music Director of the University of Texas at Austin University Orchestra.
Hsin has been recognized internationally, including as a semi-finalist in both the 1st Llíria City of Music International Conducting Competition (Spain) and the 17th Khachaturian International Conducting Competition (Armenia). His festival appearances include being one of seven conductors selected to study with Daniele Gatti at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in 2022, as well as participating in the Spokane Symphony Conducting Symposium led by Johannes Schlaefli and James Lowe. In 2025, he invited to study with Riccardo Muti in a production of Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra at the Italian Opera Academy, presented in collaboration with the Tokyo-HARUSAI Festival Orchestra.
Hsin holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Orchestral Conducting from The University of Texas at Austin. His principal mentors include Farkhad Khudyev, Lawrence Golan, Douglas Kinney Frost, and Paul Chiang, with further guidance from Daniele Gatti, Luciano Acocella, Johannes Schlaefli, James Lowe, Carl St. Clair, Jerry Junkin, Larry Rachleff, Donald Schleicher, Rodney Winther, Yan Huichang, Apo Hsu, and Tsung Yeh.
