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Keng-Wei William Kuo (郭耿維)

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Keng-Wei William Kuo (郭耿維)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Keng-Wei William Kuo
  • Chinese: 郭耿維
  • Era: —
  • Geography: Taiwan
  • Core roles: entrepreneur, professor, educator
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Keng-Wei (William) Kuo 郭耿維 – History of Taiwanese American (T.A. Archives) 台美史料中心

Education

  • Chinese Culture Univ. (中國文化大學) — 1995 — B.A., Music Dept. of Chinese Music
  • Fu Jen Catholic Univ. (輔仁大學) — 2005 — M.A., Music Orchestra Conducting
  • Univ. of North Texas — Conductor of Orchestral Music

Employment

  • Taiwan Formosa Chamber Ensemble (台灣福爾摩沙室內樂團) — Founder — (2010-) — Shen Yun Performing Arts (神韻交響樂團) — Conductor — (2012-2019) — FTAA-MT (飛天藝術學院) — Associate Professor — Shen Yun Performing Arts / Shen Yun Symphony Orchestra — Conductor — (2012-2019) — Fei Tian Academy of the Arts, New York — Adjunct Associate Professor — (2012-2019) — Taiwan Formosa Chamber Ensemble — Founder/Conductor — (2010-) — Taiwan Yangqin Orchestra — Guest Conductor — (2002-2012) — Tainan City Chinese Orchestra — Guest Conductor — (2002-2012) — Taipei Chinese Orchestra — Guest Conductor — (2002-2012) — Dallas Asian American Youth Symphony — Guest Conductor — (2002-2012)

Timeline (absorbed from on-page TAH record)

  • 1995 — B.A., Music Dept. of Chinese Music, 中國文化大學 (Chinese Culture University)
  • 2005 — M.A., Music Orchestra Conducting, 輔仁大學 (Fu Jen Catholic University); orchestral-conducting study later at the Univ. of North Texas (cf. |Mei-En Chou, same institution)
  • 2002–2012 — guest conductor: Taiwan Yangqin Orchestra, Tainan City Chinese Orchestra, Taipei Chinese Orchestra, Dallas Asian American Youth Symphony
  • 2010– — founder/conductor, Taiwan Formosa Chamber Ensemble (台灣福爾摩沙室內樂團)
  • 2012–2019 — conductor, Shen Yun Symphony Orchestra (神韻交響樂團); simultaneously adjunct associate professor, Fei Tian Academy of the Arts, New York (飛天藝術學院)

Family

No filled family fields on the TAH profile.

Sources

Connected in the Vault

  • |Mei-En Chou (周媺恩) — fellow TAH musician-profile subject; her TAH record also places her graduate study at the University of North Texas (Denton, TX), the same institution as his orchestral-conducting study above
  • 2026-09-14 (DEEPEN-X09112200-19): cross-link re-check — 中國文化大學, 輔仁大學, Univ. of North Texas, Shen Yun, 飛天藝術學院 and the guest-conducted orchestras (Taipei / Tainan / Yangqin / Dallas AAYS) have no vault pages and stay plain text; TAH #439 and #2315 work records and the reciprocal note on |周媺恩 (itself re-checked 2026-09-14) all resolve; no further absorbable vault-side facts.
  • 2026-09-14 (DEEPEN-X09141400-11): re-sweep SKIP — corpus grep (works/, articles/) hits only works/index.md listings of his own 2315 records (plus unrelated 陳文成 entries); no memoir/community material to absorb.
  • 2026-09-15 (DEEPEN-X09142319-15): re-sweep SKIP — grep 郭耿維/Keng-Wei in works+articles hits only works/index.md; no community material to absorb, no conflicts to HOLD.
  • 2026-09-15 (DEEPEN-X09150316-17): re-sweep SKIP — grep 郭耿維/Keng-Wei hits only his own 2315 records + works/index.md; no memoir/community material, no conflicts to HOLD.
  • 2026-09-15 (DEEPEN-X09150400-14): re-sweep SKIP — grep 郭耿維/Keng-Wei in works+articles hits only his own 2315 records + works/index.md; no memoir/community material, no conflicts to HOLD.
  • 2026-09-15 (DEEPEN-X09150500-6): re-sweep SKIP — grep 郭耿維/Keng-Wei/William Kuo in works+articles: excluding his own 2315 records and works/index.md, hits are zero; no memoir/community material, no conflicts to HOLD. (Earlier slices’ 郭京維 spelling note: correct hanzi 郭耿維 confirmed against both TAH records.)

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