{"id":14994,"date":"2026-07-17T03:47:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T03:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hkballet2.websitedevsystem.com\/team\/judith-yan\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T07:56:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T07:56:35","slug":"judith-yan","status":"publish","type":"team","link":"https:\/\/www.hkballet.com\/zh-hans\/team\/judith-yan\/","title":{"rendered":"Judith Yan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Body\" style=\"border:none; text-align:justify\"><span><span><span style=\"color:black\">Judith Yan is the Artistic Director of Guelph Symphony Orchestra and Principal Conductor of Opera on the Avalon. She has held Staff Conductor positions at San Francisco Opera (SFO), Canadian Opera Company, and The National Ballet of Canada, and her career has taken her internationally, conducting for major companies in Germany, Australia, Poland, Hong Kong, South Korea, New Zealand, and the US.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" style=\"border:none; text-align:justify\"><span><span><span style=\"color:black\">While with SFO, her performances of Stravinsky\u2019s The Rake\u2019s Progress for SFO (Merola) was included in the <em>San Francisco Chronicle<\/em>\u2019s Top Ten Classical Performances of the Year. Prior to SFO, she served as the first Conductor-in-Residence of the Canadian Opera Company, where her performance of Britten\u2019s <em>The Rape of Lucretia<\/em> garnered critical acclaim. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" style=\"border:none; text-align:justify\"><span><span><span style=\"color:black\">As a conductor of ballet, she has conducted over 90 performances for The National Ballet of Canada. For Korean National Ballet, she has conducted Grigorovich\u2019s <em>La Bayad\u00e8re<\/em>, <em>Swan Lake<\/em>, and <em>Giselle<\/em>.\u00a0 Since 2010, she has had a close association with Hong Kong Ballet (HKB), conducting the company\u2019s production of <em>Swan Lake<\/em> as well as premiering all three of the company\u2019s most recent productions of <em>The Sleeping Beauty<\/em>, <em>The Nutcracker<\/em>, and <em>Don Quixote<\/em>. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span><span>Recent performances include two world-premieres: Jack Perla\u2019s <em>An American Dream<\/em> for Seattle Opera <\/span><\/span><span lang=\"ES-TRAD\"><span>and John Estacio<\/span><\/span><span><span>\u2019s <em>Ours<\/em> for Opera on the Avalon (OOTA). 2017\/18 season includes Stravinsky\u2019s <em>Rite of Spring<\/em>, <\/span><\/span><em><span lang=\"FR\"><span>Le Corsaire<\/span><\/span><\/em> <span><span>for HKB, <em>Swan Lake<\/em> for Korean N<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"FR\"><span>ational <\/span><\/span><span><span>Ballet, and a return to <\/span><\/span><span lang=\"IT\"><span>West Australian Ballet <\/span><\/span><span><span>for the premiere of Krzysztof Pastor\u2019s <\/span><\/span><em><span lang=\"PT\"><span>Dracula<\/span><\/span><\/em><span lang=\"PT\"><span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","team-type":[],"class_list":["post-14994","team","type-team","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hkballet.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team\/14994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hkballet.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hkballet.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/team"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hkballet.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"team-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hkballet.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team-type?post=14994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}