Born in Taiwan, Dr. Chun-Ming Chen is currently the Director of Orchestral Activities at the University of Evansville and the Conductor of the Evansville Philharmonic Youth Orchestra. Previously, Chen has served as the music director of the Heartland Symphony Orchestra in Minnesota, the music director of the Artists Chamber Orchestra in Taiwan, as interim Conductor of the Grinnell Symphony Orchestra in Grinnell, Iowa, acting music director of the Coe College Symphony Orchestra in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, co-director of the Ithaca College Sinfonietta in Ithaca, New York, and Director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Chinese Choral Society in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Chen has received his bachelor’s degree in saxophone performance from Tunghai University, master’s degrees in orchestra conducting from Boston Conservatory and Ithaca College, and a DMA in orchestral conducting from the University of Iowa. His primary teachers include Dr. Annie Chung, Bruce Hangen, Dr. Jeffery Meyer, and Dr. William LaRue Jones.