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Respighi Conducting Competition 2024: One of Four Finalists 

Shikun Liu Piano Competition 2009: First Prize

Lang Lang Youth Piano Competition 2008: Second Prize 2008

Hong Kong SHIWEIDE Youth Piano Competition 2007: Excellence Award

Shikun Liu Students Piano Competition: First Prize 2004

• Paavo Järvi Academy 2024
• Panula Academy 2023
• Eastern Music Festival Conducting Fellow 2023
• Conductors Retreat at Medomak 2022
• Sarteano Chamber Choral Conducting Fellow 2022

• Kenneth Kiesler
• Gerald Schwartz
• Paavo Järvi
• William Weinert
• Brad Lubman
• Li Yang
• Lin Chen

• Cover Conductor - Houston Grand Opera and Asia Society Texas: "The Big Swim" Children's Opera 2025
• Conductor - Pärnu Music Festival Opening and Final Concerts 2024
• Conductor - University of Michigan Campus Orchestra Friends and Family Concert 2023/2024
• Conductor - Showcase Concert, Prague Philharmonia Orchestra 2023
• Conductor - Halloween Concert at Hill Auditorium 2023/2024
• Conductor - Concert of Overtures, Eastern Music Festival Orchestra 2023
• Conductor - Concert of Suites, Eastern Music Festival Youth Orchestra 2023
• Conductor - Eastman Repertory Singers Final Concert 2021-2023
• Conductor - Handel Messiah, Eastman Chorale 2022
• Conductor - Bach Cantata Series Concert 2021/2022
• Conductor - Bach The Art of Fugue, Eastman Centennial 2022
• Conductor - Showcase Concert, Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra 2022
• Conductor - Concert of Renaissance Music, Sarteano Chamber Choir 2022
• Conductor - Outdoor Concert, Medomak Community Orchestra 2022
• Conductor & Composer - Arranging art songs and film music from Chinese Kongfu for children's choir 2017-2019
• Soprano Soli - Bach Cantata BWV 27 Wer weiß, wie nahe mir mein Ende 2023
• Soprano Sectional Leader - Vaughan William A Sea Symphony with Eastman Rochester Chorus and Eastman Philharmonic Orchestra 2023
• Soprano Sectional Leader - Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem with Andreas Delfs and Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra 2022
• Soprano Sectional Leader - Bach Mass in B Minor with Voices Ensemble 2022
• Soprano Sectional Leader - Mozart Mass in C Minor with Eastman Rochester Chorus and Eastman School Symphony Orchestra 2022
• Soprano Sectional Leader - Beethoven Mass in C Major with Eastman Rochester Chorus and Eastman School Symphony Orchestra 2021
• Soprano Soli - Purcell Dido & Aeneas Two Witches Scene with Swiss harpsichordist Michael Kiener 2019
• Soprano - German National Youth Chamber Choir Choral Exchange Concert 2018
• Soprano Sectional Leader - Mahler Symphony No.8 with Muhai Tang and Tianjin Symphony Orchestra 2016