Bio

One of the most in-demand conductors based in Asia, a highlight of Fan Ting’s recent career
was his February 2024 concert directing the Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic Orchestra in the
famed Grosses Musikvereinsaal in Vienna, home of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. On
the same European tour he directed the Euro Sinfonietta Wien in Vienna’s new Muth Concert
Hall, the North Czech Philharmonic in Prague’s two main concert venues – the celebrated
Rudolfinum Dvořák and Municipal House Smetana Concert Halls, and the Hungarian State
Symphony Orchestra of Szolnok in cities in Hungary and Austria. This tour included a
concert at Joseph Haydn’s home in the beautiful Haydnsaal of Esterhazy Palace outside
Vienna.

During the 2024-25 season he will return to Europe for a tour to cities in Germany and
Austria with the Thüringen Philharmonic Orchestra, including a concert in the Salzburg
Mozarteum. He will also conduct the Adana State Symphony in Turkey and the Orquestra de
Câmara de Cascais in Portugal.

Fan is particularly sought after in Vietnam where he is raising the standards of the Saigon
Philharmonic of which he is Music Director and Chief Conductor, and in Hanoi where he is
Principal Conductor of the Vietnam National Opera and Ballet companies. He will be
conducting during the Third Anniversary of the International Classical Music Festival in
Hanoi which also features the Baltic Neapolis Chamber Orchestra, winner of the 2015
Fryderyk Award named after Poland’s most celebrated composer Fryderyk Chopin, and eight
international soloists. He has recently conducted performances of Mascagni’s Cavalleria
Rusticana leading the Manila Philharmonic. Future Asian engagements will see him
conducting the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra and an opera gala concert in Singapore.

With little spare time from his international commitments, Fan is committed to working with
Hong Kong’s young professional musicians by giving them the opportunity of performing a
variety of core orchestral works in one of Hong Kong’s major concert halls. A mark of his
devotion to helping younger musicians was his becoming a founding faculty member of the
orchestral technique class at Hong Kong’s celebrated Academy for Performing Arts.

Following studies at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia and then at New York’s famed
Juilliard School of Music where his teachers were Joshua Brodsky, Joseph Fuchs and the
legendary Ivan Galamian, Fan Ting returned to his native Hong Kong as Principal Second
Violin in the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, awarded in 2019 by the distinguished
Gramophone magazine as its Orchestra of the Year. For more than 30 years with the
Philharmonic, he also served as Assistant Concertmaster and Acting Concertmaster. During
his time as a major violinist, he founded the Tononi String Quartet, the New Art Quartet and
the Canzone Trio. With these ensembles he premiered a number of previously unperformed
works on tours in China including by Benjamin Britten and Leos Janáček. They also toured to
the USA, Canada, England, Italy, Japan and Taiwan.

In his later years with the Hong Kong Philharmonic, Fan realised that his long-term ambition
lay in conducting. At Juilliard he had also studied conducting with Jorge Mester. He now
joins a distinguished list of violinists who turned to conducting later in their careers including
Yehudi Menuhin, Pinchas Zuckerman and Jaap van Zweden.

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范丁（Fan Ting）是當今亞洲最炙手可熱的指揮家之一。2024年2月，他在維也納著名的格羅斯音樂廳（Grosses Musikvereinsaal）指揮博胡斯拉夫·馬爾蒂努愛樂樂團（Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic Orchestra），這是他職業生涯中的一大亮點。隨後，他在歐洲巡演中指揮了歐洲辛弗尼塔維也納樂團（Euro Sinfonietta Wien）、北捷克愛樂樂團（North Czech Philharmonic），並在匈牙利和奧地利的多座城市演出，包括在艾斯特哈齊宮（Esterhazy Palace）的海頓廳（Haydnsaal）舉行的音樂會。2024-2025樂季，范丁將與圖林根愛樂樂團（Thüringen Philharmonic Orchestra）巡演德國和奧地利，並在薩爾茨堡莫扎特音樂廳（Salzburg Mozarteum）演出，同時指揮土耳其的阿達納國家交響樂團（Adana State Symphony）及葡萄牙的卡斯凱什室內樂團（Orquestra de Câmara de Cascais）。
 

范丁在越南也備受矚目，作為胡志明市愛樂樂團（Saigon Philharmonic Orchestra）的音樂總監兼首席指揮，並且是河內國家歌劇院與芭蕾舞團（Vietnam National Opera and Ballet）的首席指揮。他同時積極培養香港的年輕音樂家，並是香港演藝學院（Academy for Performing Arts）管弦樂技巧課程的創始教師之一。
 

范丁曾在柯蒂斯音樂學院（Curtis Institute of Music）及茱莉亞音樂學院（Juilliard School of Music）學習，隨後成為香港管弦樂團（Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra）的首席第二小提琴手，最終轉型成為指揮家，加入梅紐因（Yehudi Menuhin）、祖克曼（Pinchas Zukerman）等音樂大師的行列。