Kuan, Carolyn

(Hartford, Connecticut)

2025–26 Season: Conductor, Huang Ruo and David Henry Hwang's The Monkey King

Recent and Upcoming: Huang Ruo's M. Butterfly (Santa Fe Opera, BBC Symphony Orchestra at London’s Barbican Centre); Huang Ruo's An American Soldier (American Composers Orchestra at New York’s Perelman PAC); selections from Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones (Hartford Symphony); engagements with Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, Rheinische Philharmonie, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, New York City Ballet, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra; Stewart Wallace's Harvey Milk (Opera Theatre of Saint Louis); Philip Glass' Satyagraha (English National Opera); Iain Bell’s Stonewall (New York City Opera); La Cenerentola (Portland Opera)

Music Director of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra

Website: carolynkuan.com

Facebook: @carolynkuan