Lan Shui

Lan Shui is a Chinese-American conductor and currently holds the post as Music Director of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Principal Conductor of Copenhagen Philharmonic and Principal Guest Conductor of Denmark's Aalborg Symphony.

Early life and career

Born in China, Shui made his professional conducting debut with the Central Philharmonic Orchestra in Beijing in 1986 and was later appointed Conductor of the Beijing Symphony. In 1990 he conducted the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Summer Festival, where he came to the attention of David Zinman who invited him to the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra as Conducting Affiliate in 1992. From 1994 to 1997, he was Associate Conductor to Neeme Jarvi and the Detroit Symphony. In the same period he assisted Kurt Masur at the New York Philharmonic and conducted the Cleveland Orchestra in Paris as part of Boulez's young conductors' project.

Orchestras he has conducted include the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, the Calgary Philharmonic, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the Gothenburg Symphony, the Houston Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Malm・Symphony, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Munich Chamber Orchestra, the Tampere Philharmonic, the Stuttgart Radio Symphony, the North German Radio Symphony (NDR, Hamburg), the Frankfurter Museumsorchester, the Saarbrücken Radio Symphony, the Bern Symphony, the Bamberg Symphony, the Copenhagen Philharmonic, the Komische Oper Orchestra, and the Thessaloniki...
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