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Sam Wei-Chih Sun (孫偉志)

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Sam Wei-Chih Sun (孫偉志)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Sam Wei-Chih Sun
  • Chinese: 孫偉志
  • Era: Birth Place
  • Geography: First year, first city and state in the U.S.
  • Core roles: professor, educator
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Sam Wei-Chih Sun is a pianist, an accompanist and a music educator from Taiwan. He received a BA degree in Piano Performance with a minor in Cello and Vocal Performance from Taipei Municipal Teachers College. In May 2005, he received a Master’s degree in Conducting from Azusa Pacific University. The following year, he was awarded the “2006 Chinese Overseas Outstanding Youth Award”. Currently, Mr. Sun is the conductor for the Southern California Taiwanese Hakka Chorus, the Arcadia Chinese Chorus, the Southern California TPC Master Chorale, New Orange County Children’s Choir (NOCCC) and Irvine Chinese Chorus. He conducts many concerts and collaborates with many professional soloists. He is the music director at Good Shepherd Taiwanese Presbyterian Church in Monterey Park. Additionally, he is a member of the Music Teacher’s Association of California (MTAC), and serves as an adjunct Professor of Music at Azusa Pacific University, Citrus Community College, and the Chinese for Christ Calvin Chao Theological Seminary.

Education

  • 台北市立師範學院 — 音樂敎育，主修鋼琴，副修大提琴、聲樂 — Azusa Pacific University — 2005 — 合唱指揮碩士

Employment

  • Monterey Park 好牧者台灣基督長老敎會 — 2004- — Music Director — 加州音樂敎師協會 — 鋼琴敎師 — 雅音合唱團 — 指揮 — 南加州台港客家合唱團 — 2006- — 指揮 — 爾灣華裔合唱團 — 指揮 — 美國台灣基督長老敎會聖樂團 — 指揮 — 台福聖樂團 — 聲樂指導及伴奏 — 中華歸主神學院音樂系 — 兼任合唱指揮和音樂理論敎師 — Azusa Pacific University — 兼任鋼琴敎師 — Citrus City College — 兼任鋼琴敎師

Family

  • Father: 孫武夫
  • Mother: 陳紫雲

Career Timeline

  • Education — BA in music education, piano performance with a minor in cello and vocal performance, from 台北市立師範學院 (Taipei Municipal Teachers College).
  • 2004– — Music director at 好牧者台灣基督長老敎會 (Monterey Park) — |GSTPC.
  • 2005-05 — Master’s degree in (choral) conducting, Azusa Pacific University.
  • 2006 — Awarded the “Chinese Overseas Outstanding Youth Award”; conductor of 南加州台港客家合唱團 (Southern California Taiwanese Hakka Chorus) from 2006.
  • Conducting posts — Also conductor of 雅音合唱團 (Arcadia Chinese Chorus), 美國台灣基督長老敎會聖樂團 (Southern California TPC Master Chorale), New Orange County Children’s Choir (NOCCC), and 爾灣華裔合唱團 (Irvine Chinese Chorus); vocal director and accompanist for 台福聖樂團. He conducts many concerts and collaborates with professional soloists.
  • Teaching — Adjunct professor of music at Azusa Pacific University and Citrus Community College (piano) and at 中華歸主神學院 (Calvin Chao Theological Seminary, music theory and choral conducting); member of the Music Teacher’s Association of California (MTAC).
  • Family / coverage — Father 孫武夫, mother 陳紫雲; profiled in the TAH story corpus by writer 陳美伶 ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/183-e5-ad-ab-e5-81-89-e5-bf-97-e9-9f-b3-e6-a8-82-e6-95-99-e5-b8-ab-e7-9a-84-e6-9|TAH #183]]).

Sources

Network

  • |GSTPC — TAH Who’s Who; he is the church’s music director per the GSTPC page

Vault Source Record

The vault holds three TAH story-corpus records on Sun as a conductor and music educator: the 2015/01 profile 「孫偉志 音樂教師的故事」 by 陳美伶 ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/183-e5-ad-ab-e5-81-89-e5-bf-97-e9-9f-b3-e6-a8-82-e6-95-99-e5-b8-ab-e7-9a-84-e6-9||TAH #183]]), the 2015/01 conductor profile ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/111-sam-wei-chih-sun-e5-ad-ab-e5-81-89-e5-bf-97conductor-201501||TAH #111]]), and a later Who’s Who entry ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/157-sam-wei-chih-sun-e5-ad-ab-e5-81-89-e5-bf-97||TAH #157]]). All three are bibliographic records; full text stays in the vault.

Role in the Community

  • Presbyterian church family — His father, 孫武夫 (Sun Wu-Fu), served as the fourth pastor of the Los Angeles Taiwanese Presbyterian Church (1993–2003) per the church’s own 50-year memoir [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys231|Our Journeys #231]]; the memoir describes him as formerly Moderator of the PCT General Assembly (長老教會總會議長) and notes the church’s post-retirement vacancy (2003–2008). Sam’s own music-directorship at 好牧者台灣基督長老敎會 (GSTPC, Monterey Park) from 2004 therefore sits inside a multi-generation Presbyterian ministry family — community context that outranks the Who’s Who press-kit framing.
  • Choral conducting network — The corpus confirms his conducting posts only via the three TAH bibliographic records above; no separate Echopedia pages exist yet for 南加州台港客家合唱團, 雅音合唱團, 爾灣華裔合唱團, NOCCC, 台福聖樂團, or 中華歸主神學院, so those names are held as text, not wikilinks.
  • HOLD: record numbering — the vault work files carry internal titles 「181. 孫偉志 音樂教師的故事」 and 「153. Sam Wei-Chih Sun」 while their URLs/slugs read 183 and 157; the page’s existing “TAH #183 / #157” labels follow the URL. Do not auto-merge the numbers until the story-corpus index is re-derived.

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