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Julia Tai (戴宇音)

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Julia Tai (戴宇音)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Julia Tai
  • Chinese: 戴宇音
  • Era: Birth Place
  • Geography: 台灣台北
  • Core roles: professor, educator
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Julia Tai, Doctor of Musical Arts in Orchestral Conducting / Master of Music in Choral Conducting. Born in Taipei, Taiwan, Julia Tai studied violin at age 4 and piano at 8. She has given many recitals in violin, piano, voice, and chamber music, and performed concerts with choirs and orchestras, which toured extensively in Australia, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Spain, United States, Japan, and Taiwan. She came to the United States in 1998, and obtained her Bachelor of Music in Vocal Arts Performance and Master of Music in Choral Conducting from the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music, where she was honored with the departmental award of “Outstanding Graduate of 2004.” She earned her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Orchestral Conducting from the University of Washington, where she studied conducting with Peter Eros and violin with Ronald Patterson. Currently, Julia is the music director of the Philharmonia Northwest, Magnolia Chorale, Magnolia United Church of Christ, and the co-artistic director of the Seattle Modern Orchestra. Previously, she was the conductor of the Westside Symphonette, the associate conductor of the Rainier Symphony, and the music

Education

  • 南加州大學 — B.S. 聲樂
  • 南加州大學 — M.S.指揮
  • 華盛頓大學 — Ph. D. 管絃樂指揮

Employment

  • 華盛頓大學現代樂團 — 專任指揮
  • 西北愛樂交響樂團 — 音樂總監
  • 西雅圖現代樂團 — 音樂總監
  • 融融合唱團 — 2011-2013 — 指揮
  • 木蘭合唱團 — 音樂總監

Family

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Career Notes

  • 4 歲學小提琴、8 歲學鋼琴；曾在澳、奧、比、法、德、西、美、日、台多地巡演
  • 1998 年赴美；獲南加大 Thornton 音樂學院聲樂藝術學士與合唱指揮碩士，獲「Outstanding Graduate of 2004」系獎
  • 華盛頓大學管絃樂指揮音樂藝術博士（DMA），師承 Peter Eros 學指揮、Ronald Patterson 學小提琴
  • 現任西北愛樂（Philharmonia Northwest）、Magnolia Chorale、Magnolia UCC 音樂總監，及西雅圖現代樂團共同藝術總監；曾任 Westside Symphonette 指揮、Rainier Symphony 副指揮 — see [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/239-julia-tai-e6-88-b4-e5-ae-87-e9-9f-b3-conductor-201507|TAH #239]]

Vault records (deepen pass 2026-09-10)

  • A second TAH encyclopedia entry, #494 (published 2015-07-11), is held in the vault alongside #239: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/494-julia-tai-e6-88-b4-e5-ae-87-e9-9f-b3-201507||TAH #494: Julia Tai 戴宇音]]. Her USC Thornton “Outstanding Graduate of 2004” award and DMA conducting studies under Peter Eros are documented in these vault entries.

  • Both encyclopedia entries are catalogued in the vault story corpus: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/mystories239||TAH mystories #239]] and [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/mystories494||TAH mystories #494]].

  • USC context: the vault holds |Taiwanese Student Association at USC and |Taiwanese American Organization at USC as community context for her USC years (1998–2004, B.M. Vocal Arts, M.M. Choral Conducting).

  • University of Washington context: the vault holds |Taiwanese Student Association at the University of Washington as community context for her DMA conducting studies.

  • Deepen-X19 check (2026-09-11): both TAH encyclopedia entries (#239, #494) are linked and their facts (Outstanding Graduate of 2004, studies under Peter Eros / Ronald Patterson, current and past posts) already absorbed; no further vault-sourced facts remain.

  • DEEPEN-X09112100-5 check (2026-09-11): entries #239 and #494 are catalogued in the |TAH story corpus; a second UW-era community page exists in the vault, |Taiwanese Overseas Student Association at the University of Washington, complementing the TSA at UW page above. No ensemble pages (Philharmonia Northwest, Magnolia Chorale, Seattle Modern Orchestra) exist in the vault, so no links were added for her posts; no biography invented.

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