Gustav Meier is known internationally as a teacher of conductors. He has led orchestras around the globe while teaching at the Yale University, the Eastman School of Music, the University of Michigan and the Tanglewood Music Center.

He has conducted the Pittsburgh and China National Symphonies, the Hungarian and Vienna State Opera Orchestras, the Sao Paulo State Symphony, the Chicago’s Grant Park Symphony, the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, the Long Beach and Colorado Symphony Orchestras and others. He has led performances at the New York City, Santa Fe, Miami, San Francisco, Zurich and Minnesota Opera Companies. Innovative programming has earned Mr. Meier critical acclaim. He collaborated with film director Robert Altman (Igor Stravinsky’s Rake’s Progress), conducted William Bolcom’s Song of Innocence and Experience (American Premiere), Gian-Carlo Menotti’s Help! Help! The Globolinks! (American Premiere), Elliot Carter’s Double Concerto (First Performance), Chris Rouse’s  Infernal Machine (First Performance) to mention just a few.

Students of his include Marin Alsop (Baltimore Symphony, Cabrillo Festival), Antonio Pappano (Royal Opera Covent Garden, Orchestra Nazionale di Santa Cecilia), Bobby McFerrin, Yakov Kreizberg (First Prize Stokovsky Competition, Netherlands Philharmonic, Vienna Symphony Orchestra), Rico Saccani (First Prize Karajan Competition,Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra), Carl St. Clair (Komische Oper Berlin and Pacific Symphony), Mark Gibson (Cincinnati Conservatory), Jun Märkl (Lyon National Symphony Orchestra), Ben Loeb (International Workshop and Festival) and more.

At present Gustav Meier is on the faculty of the Peabody Conservatory and Music Director of the Greater Bridgeport Symphony Orchestra in Connecticut. Mr. Meier has also received Honory Doctorate Degrees from Fairfield University, Kalamazoo College and Michigan State University. His book The Composer, the Orchestra and the Conductor has just been published by Oxford University Press. 

Jacob Chi, D.M.A.
Artistic and Music Director of Chihuahua State Philharmonic, Chihuahua, Mexico
Professor of Music, Colorado State University - Pueblo
Music Director/Conductor, Pueblo Symphony Orchestra, Pueblo, Colorado, U.S.A.

Dr. Jacob Chi is currently the artistic and music director of Chihuahua State Philharmonic at Chihuahua Mexico, and the music director of Pueblo Symphony at Pueblo Colorado. Over the years, Dr. Chi and his orchestras have accumulatively reached more than 200,000 live audiences, in addition to countless broadcasting audiences.

Jacob Chi was born in Qingdao, China. At age 17, he became the youngest Concertmaster of the Beijing Opera Company; at 23, he was the Company?s conductor and composer. In 1987, Chi received his Master of Music in Violin Performance at the University of Michigan under Jacob Krachmalnick, former Concertmaster of the Philadelphia Orchestra. In 1996, he completed his Doctor of Musical Arts in Orchestra Conducting under Leon Gregorian at Michigan State University. Chi also studied with Maestro Gustov Meier at the University of Michigan, the Tanglewood Music Center, and an International Conducting Workshop in Sofia, Bulgaria. He attended various conducting master classes with Seiji Ozawa, Leonard Slatkin, and John Nelson.

Dr. Chi is a committed music educator ? well respected, and a beloved professor. His academic appointments include Miami University at Oxford Ohio (1993-1997), University of Southern Colorado (1991-1993), and, currently, Colorado State University ? Pueblo (1997+ Professor of Music). As dedicated as he is to teaching, Dr. Chi has never forgotten his calling as an accomplished conductor. He has served as the Music Director and Conductor for the Colorado Music Fest since 1994, as well as conductor of the Taos Symphony Orchestra (Taos, New Mexico, 1992-93). His guest conducting experiences include the Vladimir State Symphony Orchestra (Vladimir, Russia), Chihuahua Philharmonic, Chihuahua University Symphony (Chihuahua, Mexico), Hua-ou Philharmonic (Qingdao, China), where he was distinguished as the Principal Guest Conductor and Artistic Advisor, Jackson Symphony (Michigan), Midland Symphony (Michigan), Denver Symphony (Colorado), and Colorado Springs Symphony (Colorado). In 1996, Dr. Chi conducted at the Echternach International Music Festival in Luxembourg, sharing the stage with George Solti, Gil Shaham and other international celebrities. His conducting repertoire ranges from symphonic music, ballet and opera to Jazz, country western, rock ?n roll, and Broadway musicals ? from the 17th to the 20th century, from the Orient to the West.

By virtue of his significant professional contributions to American society in the year of 1994, Chi was selected among 13 other Asian conductors along with Seiji Ozawa, Zubin Mehta, and Bright Sheng in the Premiere Edition of Who?s Who among Asian Americans. In 2000, he was listed in the 17th edition of the International Who?s Who in Music and Musicians Directory.