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Apo Hsu (許瀞心)

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Apo Hsu (許瀞心)

Apo Hsu (許瀞心; also Apo Ching-Hsin Hsu on English concert listings) is a Taiwan-born conductor and teacher. TAH Who’s Who lists her as conductor, educator, musician, and professor. She is not |Ahhee Hsu (許丕龍).

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Apo Hsu; concert listings also Apo Ching-Hsin Hsu
  • Chinese: 許瀞心
  • Born: year not given on TAH; birthplace 基隆 / 台灣
  • Geography: Keelung → US training (Hartt) → US podiums → Taiwan (TAH address field: 台灣)
  • Core roles: conductor; NTNU symphony conductor (from 2003); US orchestra music director / artistic director posts
  • Source layer: TAH Who’s Who + [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/musician369|TAH #369 (musician)]] / [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whoswho1310|TAH #1310]]; EN Wikipedia on |Tyzen Hsiao / Ilha Formosa

Overview

TAH’s Who’s Who card (updated 19 June 2026) is a directory record, not a full biography. It places her birth in Keelung, a B.S. in music at 台灣師範大學, an M.S. at the Hartt School of Music, and a stack of conducting posts in Taiwan and the United States. Family fields on that card are empty (Husband/Daughter/Son: -). First US city/year is also -.

The Tyzen Hsiao literature is the named US–Taiwan concert link: she conducted Hsiao’s Ilha Formosa requiem and the 2007 Formosa Dreaming program.

Conducting posts (TAH table)

Do not flatten these into one “Missouri symphony” or invent dates TAH left blank.

PostTAH wording
國立台灣師範大學音樂學系交響樂團指揮, 2003–present
Bard College 指揮家研究院 (New York)客席教授, present
舊金山女子愛樂樂團指揮及藝術總監
密蘇里州春田市交響樂團指揮
奧瑞岡州 Eugene 莫札特室內樂團音樂總監

TAH source line on the card: 奧瑞岡日報 & 台灣公論報 第1239期, 1994/03. TAH also points to encyclopedia [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/musician369|#369]] (musician) and [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whoswho1310|#1310]].

Tyzen Hsiao / Ilha Formosa

On |Tyzen Hsiao’s page (EN Wikipedia / Ilha Formosa article):

  • Apo Hsu conducts the NTNU Symphony Orchestra and Formosa Festival Choir in Hsiao’s Ilha Formosa: Requiem for Formosa’s Martyrs.
  • 2007 Formosa Dreaming — concert of works for orchestra and voices by Hsiao and Fan-Long Ko (柯芳隆). US tour after a sendoff at Taipei 中山堂 (the hall of Hsiao’s first 蕭泰然樂展, 1975). EN Wikipedia video note: DVD, concert 9 September 2007, Apo Ching-Hsin Hsu conducting NTNU Symphony + Formosa Festival Chorus.

柯芳隆 has no Echopedia person page yet — do not invent a slug.

Later cite (not a TAH bio)

A 2022-08-11 中央社 piece republished on taiwanjustice.net, on conductor 林韡函, says:

  • 林韡函 becomes a US music director after 許瀞心 and 陳美安.
  • At NTNU he began studying conducting with 指揮家許瀞心.

That is a student/successor mention, not a second biography. 林韡函 / 陳美安 have no Echopedia person pages yet.

Do not merge TAH’s 春田市 (Springfield, Missouri) post with 林韡函’s later Missouri Symphony / Columbia, Missouri job — different orchestras.

Name Variants / Disambiguation

Corpus Sweep (2026-10-12)

Full-corpus grep (許瀞心 / Apo Hsu / Apo Ching-Hsin / 瀞心 / surname variants) across works / articles / sources / events / topics returned no record beyond the three already cited here: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/musician369|#369]], [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whoswho1310|#1310]], and the 2022 taiwanjustice.net 林韡函 piece. No memoir, event, or topic mention exists yet. The page’s existing gaps (birth year, first US city, family) are not fillable from the current corpus.

Source Notes and Confidence

  • A: TAH Who’s Who education/employment rows; Keelung; 2003– NTNU 指揮
  • A: EN Wikipedia Tyzen / Ilha Formosa — 2007 Formosa Dreaming + requiem conducting
  • B: 1994 公論報/奧瑞岡日報 listed as TAH source; card itself has no excerpt from those papers
  • B: 2022 CNA/TJ student mention
  • Missing: birth year; first US city; family; named SoCal pew (none claimed)

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