Motivated by radical creativity, collaboration, and community —
Drawing from lived experience as an immigrant, Asian, and queer person —
Gloria Yin is a multi-faceted conductor, pianist, and mission-driven musical entrepreneur —
With a keen interest in impactful storytelling through socially-relevant, boundary-breaking contemporary opera.
Currently working at Peabody Opera Theater, their past and future appearances in opera include Juilliard Opera, Opera Theatre of St Louis, Opera Saratoga, and Sarasota Opera as a conductor and pianist.
Recent conducting highlights have included the world premiere of inti figgis-vizueta’s opera mad scramble for crumbs commissioned by Opera Saratoga, 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 School of Music, 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, Daniel Knaggs' motet O vos omnes, 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.
They received a Licentiate Diploma with Distinction in Piano from Trinity College London in 2013, and has since been active as a collaborative pianist, arranger, and organist. Their collaborative performance highlights have included Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle and Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms, and they have written over 15 arrangements of large-scale orchestral works for piano ensembles. As a vocalist, they has sung with groups such as the Yale Schola Cantorum, Apollo's Singers, and the Princeton University Glee Club and Chamber Choir, and have performed on stages such as the Royal Albert Hall and Alice Tully Hall.
Gloria holds an MM in Choral Conducting at Yale School of Music, where they received the Richard Paul DeLong Prize. Before that, they received a BA in Mathematics from Princeton University, as well as Certificates in Piano Performance and Computer Science, and the Isidore & Helen Sacks Memorial Prize for extraordinary achievement in the arts. They divide their spare time between coding, rock climbing, playing rugby, baking cakes, and entertaining their spunky orange tabby cat, Nemo.
“Music Director Gloria Yin achieved staggering polish for a premiere…”
— The Berkshire Eagle