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Motivated by radical creativity, collaboration, and community, Gloria Yin is a multi-faceted conductor, pianist, and mission-driven musical entrepreneur, with a keen professional interest in impactful storytelling through socially relevant, boundary-breaking contemporary opera. Currently serving as Adjunct Faculty at Peabody Opera Theater, their past and future appearances in opera include Opera Theatre of St Louis, Opera Saratoga, and Sarasota Opera as a conductor and pianist. Recent conducting highlights have included a multi-media staged performance of Missy Mazzoli's opera Song from the Uproar in collaboration with the David Geffen School of Drama, Yale Schwarzman Center, and Yale Opera, which they co-directed with projection designer Camilla Tassi, and Sarah Kirkland Snider's Mass for the Endangered. As a champion of new music, they have conducted numerous premieres, including Calvin Van Zytfeld's chamber opera Don't Trifle with Love, Shruthi Rajasekar's horn dectet Goddess, and Eli Berman's O'Keefe Colony.
Gloria is a Co-founder and President of the Board of Directors of New Muses Project, a DEI-centered classical music organization that promotes justice and curiosity through scholarship, performance, and education, with projects including an innovative web resource showcasing composers from historically underrepresented backgrounds and a professional album series of rarely-heard music. They are also technical director of GigCrunch, a financial literacy web app designed to help freelance musicians learn the business skills they need to take ownership of their work, finances, and time.
Gloria holds degrees from Yale School of Music (MM) and Princeton University (BA), and has been the recipient of the Richard Paul DeLong Prize and the Isidore & Helen Sacks Memorial Prize for extraordinary achievement in the arts.
