A leading young conductor in Hong Kong, Vivian Ip was praised by the winner of the “Best Conductor” Grammy Award John Nelson: “Conducting is like breathing for you. Bright talent you have!”

 

Appointed the Associate Conductor of the Hong Kong Sinfonietta since season 2023/2024, Ip has guest conducted at the Hong Kong Arts Festival, Hong Kong Grand Opera and Musica Viva Hong Kong among others, and was appointed Assistant Conductor of the Hong Kong Philharmonic in 2016-2018, where she assisted its Music Director Jaap van Zweden and Principal Guest Conductor Yu Long, as well as overseas conductors such as Christoph Eschenbach, Charles Dutoit, Vassily Sinaisky and Lawrence Foster.

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Ip earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Music with First Class Honours from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. With an Associate Instructorship and the Sir Edward Youde Memorial Fellowship for Overseas Studies, she received her Master of Music degree in Choral Conducting at the Indiana University Bloomington. She also holds a magistra artium degree in Orchestral Conducting at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, receiving the highest award of the year, under the supervision of Uroš Lajovic and Johannes Wildner.

 

As an opera conductor, Ip has conducted operas such as Carmen, Die Zauberflöte, Der Fliegende Holländer, Norma, L'elisir d'amore, L'impresario in angustie, The Cunning Little Vixen, Maria de Buenos Aires, Merry Widow, etc. As a choral conductor, she was the Music Director of Chorus Delicti Wien for 7 years and has worked with numerous local and international choirs such as the Berlin Radio Choir, the Arnold Schoenber Chor, Asia Pacific Youth Choir, and the Hong Kong Children's Choir. 

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Ip currently teaches Conducting at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She was the Music Director of the Xing-er Symphony Orchestra in Guangzhou from 2017-2022, and led the orchestra to the Gold Award at the 6th World Orchestra Festival in Vienna in 2018, where she also received the Talented Conductor Prize. In 2024, she was honoured with the Hong Kong Outstanding Young Musician Award.

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In 2023, Ip co-founded the ANIMA Ensemble, where she takes on the role of Artistic Director. The ensemble is dedicated to promoting contemporary chamber operas and musical theatre, and its inaugural production—the Hong Kong premiere of Philip Glass’s and Leonard Cohen’s The Book of Longing—received critical acclaim.

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